FreeBSD Port: dvd+rw-tools-5.8.4.4.4

Andy Polyakov appro at fy.chalmers.se
Tue Jul 15 05:29:49 PDT 2003


Hi,

First of all I figured that I should give you a note that dvd+rw-tools 
5.10.4.5.4 were released yesterday, addressing a NEC firmware deficiency 
and couple of FreeBSD-specific "inconveniences" ("fdescfs inconvenience" 
mentioned in 
http://www.mail-archive.com/cdwrite%40other.debian.org/msg04262.html and 
"open tray inconvenience" when tools failed to start with open tray 
mentioned in the source code).

And regarding dvd+rw-tools being classified as "DVD+RW burning software" 
at ports page. Note that despite their  name dvd+rw-tools support *all* 
DVD recording formats and should probably be classified as "DVD burning 
software":-) Then as for description section which now starts with "This 
software allows one to use a DVD burner, as well as supporting 
multisession CD-R/W formats, primarily via the "growisofs" utility." I 
have to object:-) growisofs does not support CD-R/W in any way. It fully 
supports DVD multi-sessioning [which is by the way growisofs' *unique* 
feature, at least for a free Unix program]. As for CD recordings, 
cdrecord is still the one to use. In case you wonder, no, you don't need 
closed-source cdrecord-ProDVD to burn CD in a DVD burner, plain cdrecord 
is sufficient for this task. In either case my suggestion for the 
sentence in question is "This software allows one to perform DVD 
recordings in a DVD burner, primarily via the growisofs utility. As the 
name suggests growisofs fully supports DVD multi-sessioning." Or 
something, but do remove CD-R/W!

Cheers. A.



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