Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Re: NEC 2500-A -- Philips/NEC firmware

[Martino]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 22:13, Justin T Wetherell wrote:
>  
>
> > *I am trying to burn an image file to a DVD, this is the error I get. I 
> > can burn to a CD with the same device. I don't know if the dvdrecord 
> > recognizes it correctly. At first it told me the file was too big, 
> > looked like it thinks my DVD-RW is a CD-RW.*
> >    
>
> Correct.
>
> There are three major sets of firmware out there.
> - Matsushita/Panasonic
> - Pioneer
> - Philips/NEC
>
> As some of you may have guessed, these map to DVD-RAM, DVD-RW and DVD+RW
> drives, respectfully.
>
> > From my understanding, only Pioneer drives are supported by DVDRTools.
> Same deal with the DVD patch for CDRecord 2.0 (has that changed now?).
>
> Even if one of these drives _support_ the other formats (e.g., a Sony
> DVD+RW drive supports DVD-RW/R, etc...), the underlying firmware is the
> key.  If the software cannot support the firmware, it cannot burn.
>
> The latest commercial (free for non-commercial use) CDRecord-ProDVD
> should support all firmware and both DVD-R and DVD+R record formats.
>
> I really need to update my page to reflect all this.
>
>
>  

you mean that cdrecord-prodvd, this cdrecord-prodvd:

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

support all dvd-r (and some +r) dvd writer?

Does the cdrecord 2.0 mentioned above has any relation to cdrecord-prodvd?

Thanks