On 2006-10-22, Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's the perfect segway into my next question. I'm looking to find a > program for burning CDs/DVDs.
For CDs, there's cdrecord. But the state of dvd burning under Linux is really sorry. There is not even a semi-decent program for that. The official cdrecord is non-free, and the 'dvdrecord' fork doesn't work at all. The only program that somehow manages to burn a DVD is growisofs. But even it has some serious problems, such as not waiting for mkisofs to produce even a little bit of information, before turning a disk into a coaster. (mkisofs can fail e.g. if you have file names with the wrong encoding on your file system.) I'd very much prefer a (command-line/curses/etc.) program that wasn't just a front-end to mkisofs, plus some burning hack. One that actually checked that everything can go alright before starting to burn anything, one that had _easy_ support for multisession, and so on. There's of course UDF, but enabling it seemed too much of a chore. The state of the kernel is also really sorry... as well as the related user-space stuff, like the piece-of-shit udev. -- Tuomo
