Notes about DVD-Recording: ========================== cdrecord does not support DVD recording. If you need it you have the following options: * cdrecord-ProDVD: Joerg Schilling is also author of cdrecord-ProDVD. This software is free for personal use but not free software according to the DFSG and therefore not part of Debian GNU/Linux. * dvd+rw-tools: http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ DFSG-free, actively maintained and proper part of Debian. Although the name suggests otherwise, recent versions also support DVD-R(W). * dvdrecord: A fork of cdrecord 1.11a15 with DVD support. As far as we know it it is not actively maintained. * Apply the dvdrecord-patch to cdrecord and compile it yourself: apt-get source cdrtools cd cdrtools- fakeroot debian/rules dvd=yes cdrecord Be aware that we will probably ignore bugreports for cdrecord+dvdpatch unless they can be reproduced without the patch. ------------------- Why is this patch not applied by default? * We are not the upstream authors of cdrecord and cannot fix most of the bugs ourselves, but will forward them to upstream. The author of cdrtools is not interested in maintaining a forked version of his software. * We aren't interested in and cannot play upstream (aka main software author) for the dvd-patch. * There is no active upstream for the dvdrecord-patch either. * It may break cdrecord. And as far as we know its only tested on Pioneer A03 DVD Writer. So there is no guarantee that cdrecord still does its work as it should nor that this patch really works for most of the DVD Writers. Andreas Metzler 2003-07-02 Eduard Bloch 2003-03-16