On Sunday 16 Nov 2003 10:27 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > Well, I sort of foresee this as being much less of a problem in the > coming months, or moreso depending on how you look at it. The > newest DVD burner drives that are out support almost all formats of > media, including DVD+R/+RW/-R/-RW which covers the spectrum. The > biggest issue will be in explaining that depending on what media > you want to burn, you need a different toolset, including different > tools for the exact same hardware device but dependent on what > media is in the burner. > > Unfortunately, I am not the best person to do a detailed CLI howto > for dvd burning, I can do it but it is still a lot of trial and > error to get it right for me and I prefer the GUI front-ends. > > There are a couple of new GUI's that take the guesswork out of it > and support both different tools and formats and can even > autodetect the media in the drive and use the right tool for that > media. So, either newbies will go for the GUI (as I would expect) > and it will become fairly seamless for them, or they will stick > with the CLI, in which case, making the right choices and > explaining why becomes a major headache. > > I will quickly plug one of the GUI's again, it is NOT free but is > very reasonable and has a lot of nice features. WebCDWriter is a > web based GUI for CD and DVD burning that now features full support > for just about every kind of media and format that you would want > to burn. You simply configure it for the device that you have and > what it supports, Tell it what kind of disk you want to burn and it > opens the drive and prompts you to insert the media and off you go. > If you want the CD burning version, it is free and the DVD version > costs about 25 euros, last I checked. > > http://joerghaeger.de/webCDwriter/
I think we need both approaches - and it doesn't matter (to me, any way) that you are suggesting a suitable package that isn't completely free. I wonder if someone would volunteer to do some cli stuff - even if they're not ready yet, while you put the gui stuff on the same page (or linked page) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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