DVD Writing with Linux

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Monday 29 March 2004 04:49 pm, Simper, Brian D wrote:
> I am trying to get some DVD writing software working with Linux.  I am
> running Red Hat Linux 8.0 and have tried two packages unsuccessfully.
>
> I tried the demo of Gear Pro for Linux but have been unsuccessful so
> far.  I don't want to buy the full package for ~$780.00 if it does not
> work.
>
> http://www.gearsoftware.com/products/ProLinux/index.cfm
>
> Has anyone used this product before who might have a review?
>
> I also tried K3b which is free from SourceForge but I have not been able
> to get it to compile.  It is at:
>
> http://k3b.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/index.pl
>
> I get the error message libmad.so.0 is not present.  I downloaded the
> library with some MP3 software bit it is not working yet.  Compiling the
> code is not working either.
>
> Does anyone have a recommendation for DVD writing software?  I can
> probably justify a budget for it, but I would like to know of any
> options that are available.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian

I use dvd+rw-tools.  It is an easy command-line tool that I use in FreeBSD; 
but I've noted that it's available a couple of Linux distributions (Slackware 
and Fedora, for example).  The executable's name is growisofs.

Despite it's name, it now also burns DVD-R/RW.  In my brief experience with 
burning data to DVD's I've found that the best DVD compatibility is achieved 
by using DVD-R's and growisofs's -dvd-compat option.

The following line will burn the contents of the current directory to a DVD-R 
at /dev/cd0c (the dvd burner device in FreeBSD):

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0c -r -l ./*

Note that no iso image was required.  You can burn iso images using methods 
documented in man growisofs.

I hope this helps.

Andrew Gould