Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:21:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Andy Polyakov <appro@fy.chalmers.se> Cc: chuck@pkix.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: dvd+rw-tools-5.8.4.4.4 Message-ID: <200307151721.h6FHLOCE087891@apollo.backplane.com> References: <3F13F3AD.6040004@fy.chalmers.se>
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Thanks for the update, Andy! Chuck, if you have any problems
updating the port I'm available to help.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
: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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