Re: [Dvdrtools-users] pioneer 105 once more :) (fwd)

[Robert M. Stockmann]

Hi,

I forward this, see below.
IMHO Joerg should be allowed access to this list.

Robert
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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:19:47 +0200 (CEST)
From: Joerg Schilling <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Dvdrtools-users] pioneer 105 once more :)

Just a note: it seems that I am blocked from this mailing list :-(



>Well here come my experiences :

>- cdrecord-prodvd can be downloaded from 

>        ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/

>  and is a binary only program. It also needs a environment key to run.
>  cdrecord-prodvd is based on cdrtools-2.0. This program also support DVD+R(W) 
>  drives and should always work ok. In case of severe problems you should
>  also try cdrecord-prodvd.

it is the only cdrecord version that really is maintained...

>- cdrtools-2.0-dvd.patch.gz is a patch which enables DVD-R(W) support
>  for/inside cdrtools-2.0.tar.gz. It is opensource and can be downloaded from

>        ftp://crashrecovery.org/pub/linux/cdrtools/

This patch violates the GPL (see GPL § 2 subclause c) and GPL Preamble, 
subsection 6)

>  is added by applying this patch, and has no limitations in speed and udf/iso 
>  size. The downside is that lowering the DVD burning speed doesn't work :
>  i.e. some-one inserts a 2x DVD-R burning recordable, adding the option
>  speed=1 won't work. AFAIK only cdrecord-prodvd supports this. The good part 
>  is that all frontends based on cdrtools-2.0 should also work as expected 
>  with cdrtools-2.0-dvd. So indeed i can use e.g. xcdroast to burn DVD-R(W)'s
>  using a GUI. download is on http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/rpms-a14.html

There is no guarantee that xcdroast will work as expected id you use this patch.


>- dvdrecord / dvdrtools is a fork-off from cdrtools version 1.11a8 .
>  Its is opensource and can be downloaded from :

>        http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/dvdrtools/
>        http://www.nongnu.org/dvdrtools/

This patch violates the GPL (see GPL § 2 subclause c) and GPL Preamble,  
subsection 6) 


>  dvdrecord should also work ok. however its based on a older cdrtools 
>  version which has the downside that certain CD-R(W) parts and drivers
>  are not really up to date. Hence its use is basicly as dvdrecord, i.e.
>  burn DVD-R(W)'s with dvdrecord and keep the cdrecord which was already
>  installed to burn CD-R(W)'s.

It is known not to work correctly! It definitely breaks the official 
functionality and many problems with drives different from Pioneer A03 have been
reported.


>- cdrecord-dvdhack is again a patch/hack to add DVD-R(W) support into
>  cdrtools-2.0. But also here a extra binary is added next to cdrecord.
>  Its opensource and can be downloaded from :

>        http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~warly/files/cdrtools/

>  The patches are against cdrtools-1.11a versions.

The only patch that does not violate the GPL!

Please note that all these patches will not work with a recent version of 
cdrecord because the creators do not really maintain them.

As I am constantly fixing bugs and adding new features, there is a high 
propability that using one of the programs above may give you far worse results 
that with the original software.

Jörg

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