From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 15 05:29:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 548F937B401 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 05:29:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fyserv1.fy.chalmers.se (fyserv1.fy.chalmers.se [129.16.110.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1B2743F85 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 05:29:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from appro@fy.chalmers.se) Received: from fy.chalmers.se (g2-mac24.fy.chalmers.se [129.16.118.155]) by fyserv1.fy.chalmers.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA27425; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:27:10 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <3F13F3AD.6040004@fy.chalmers.se> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:29:33 +0200 From: Andy Polyakov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chuck@pkix.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com Subject: FreeBSD Port: dvd+rw-tools-5.8.4.4.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:29:49 -0000 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.