From: MJ Ray Sent: 13 January 2006 19:52

"Keith Watson" keith.watson@kewill.com

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Has anyone got any comments, warnings, POW, etc. about burning data DVDs under Gnu/Linux?

• growisofs is much simpler than cdrecord;
• libburn looked nice, but I've still not upgraded to it, not

sure whether it does DVDs too; and

• I still don't get asked for DVDs anywhere near as often as for CDs.

Hope that helps,

Had a play with both K3B and growisofs at the weekend, both worked very well and did everything I asked. Interestingly K3B seems to use growisofs as its backend for DVD burning. I must admit as an old time fogey (punch cards, paper tape, etc. etc.) I'm still more comfortable with CLI rather than GUI tools (I'm always a little bit paranoid about what GUI tools are doing behind my back) so I think I'll probably be using growisofs most of the time.

Regards,

Keith ____________ BEAUTY, n. - The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. - Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary