Re: Why doesn't growisofs work any more?

js@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Joerg Schilling) writes:

In article <pan.2006.05.31.09.41.57.551345@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Barry Samuels <bog.off@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've been running Debian Testing (Etch at present) with kernel 2.4.27 for
a number of years without problems until my last upgrade.

K3b disappeared from Testing some time ago and I think I've been waiting
about 6 months for it to reappear which it did a short while ago. I did a
dist-upgrade and found a number of problems of which this is one.

K3b fails when trying to write a DVD from an .iso file. This appears to
be a growisofs problem and growisofs also fails from the command line with
the same error.

Why do you use growisofs?

It gives hard to read error messages and it does not seem to be
actively maintened anymore.

?? It is a front end to mkisofs. Now if you do not need to make the iso,
then cdrecord is probably best.


I recommend to use cdrecord. It is the oldest DVD writing tool for UNIX
(first availability in March 1998 when a DVD writer did cost 18,000$).
BTW: With Linux-2.4.x you are still using a Linux where the Linux maintainers
did not yet start to try making CD/DVD writing impossible....

Me thinks I detect a wiff of bitterness here.
I hardly think that a difference is philosophy is "try to make CD/DVD
writing impossible".

Of course cdrecord for DVD burning is AFAIK not opensource, and until
recently was (still is?) a commercial package.


From the README
You need a key to unlock unlimited writing
....
NEW: On March 9th, we are celebrating 6 years of cdrecord-ProDVD

cdrecord-ProDVD has been free for research or educational porposes
since January 2002.

cdrecord-ProDVD is now free for private non-commercial purposes too.
.....
As I am not sure if people will follow my licensing rules, so these
keys are time limited and will expire on 2007 Jan 28 17:00:00
I will continue to make private/educational/research use free,
but it may be that you need to request your private key for free
after 2007 Jan 28 17:00:00.




I can use dvdrecord without problems although it says my drive doesn't
support TAO which it apparently does (k3b recognises that).

Why do you try to use this junk?

"dvdrecord" is unmaintined and made by a pooy guy who assembles old outdated
versions of software from other people, while claiming he works on the code.

It did never work correctly (except on a Pioneer A03 under some circumstances).
The DVD support code in "dvdrecord" has been created by reverse engineering
cdrecord in 2001, so why not just use the original?

Can hardly blame people for trying to make an opensource dvd writer.


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



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