[ale] DVD burning on CentOS 4.4 using xcdroast

Jerry Yu jjj863 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 10:17:38 EST 2007


I'll check k3b and GnomeBaker out later this week. For now, I used
mkisofs/cdrecord combo from command line.

On 2/13/07, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net> wrote:
>
> James Sumners wrote:
> > Well, cdrtools is being superceeded by cdrkit (http://cdrkit.org/) in
> > at least Debian and Arch Linux. I imagine other distributions will as
> > well. From http://lwn.net/Articles/198171/ :
> >
> > "So, why the fork?...Unfortunately Sun then developed the CDDL[1] and
> > J?rg Schilling
> > released parts of recent versions of cdrtools under this license.
> > The CDDL is incompatible with the GPL..."
> >
> > The tools in the cdrkit package are interface compatible with cdrtools
> > for the time being. So, pointing your favorite mastering GUI to the
> > cdrkit tools (wodim) shouldn't be a problem.
> >
> > As for a recommendation on other GUI mastering programs. I like K3B. I
> > don't really like KDE, but that program is definitely a jewel. It is
> > _much_ nicer than Xcdroast; which has always been a cumbersome mess,
> > in my opinion.
> >
> > On 2/12/07, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> hi, there,
> >> I used to use xcdroast + cdrecord.prodvd to burn month-end backups onto
> DVD
> >> on CentOS 4.4. This month, I was told the DVD keys expired again.  The
> >> README on the author's FTP site doesn't have a new key. Instead, it
> said use
> >> updated cdrtools instead. Xcdroast's site instructed to cp cdrecord to
> >> cdrecord.prodvd.  However, I still didn't get drop-down to select media
> >> longer than 99 minutes.
> >>
> >> Question
> >>
> >> anybody has xcdroast working on CentOS 4.4 recently?
> >> other quickie GUI? I guess I could try cdrecord manually, if it
> supports DVD
> >> natively now.
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> >
> Have you tried GnomeBaker? It has some similarities to K3B but is for
> the gnome environment.
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