dvdrecord?

[Chuck Swiger]

Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> On burners which do not have buffer-underrun correction capabilities (ie,
>> "BurnProof", "JustLink", etc), trying to create the ISO image on the
>> fly and pipe it to the burning process can result in coasters.  YMMV, but I
>> prefer to
> 
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> anyway - it may not :)
> 
> already recorded 800 DVD's without single failed.

On decent hardware, there shouldn't be a problem, especially if your burner can
handle underruns.  However, I get bug reports from people using older burners
and slow drives, people using USB burners at USB-1 speeds, and other
circumstances which are somewhat marginal.

As others have said, you can have growisofs invoke mkisofs on your behalf to
burn a filesystem tree directly without creating a seperate .ISO file as an
intermediate step.  If you want to do so in DAO mode, one can use the
(undocumented) flag: "-use-the-force-luke=dao".

>> However, there's room for more tools in ports, so if you like
>> dvdrecord enough to want to use it under FreeBSD, why not port it yourself?
>>
> because i'm asking why it wasn't first - i'm sure that there are many
> people who needs this

dvd+rw-tools was added to ports back in 2003, and depended on the mkisofs port
(aka cdrtools).  Apparently, dvdrecord is a fork of cdrtools, but I don't know
which one appeared first.

There's also burncd by Soren, which works fine for CD-R/RW burning, but doesn't
do DVD-burning especially well.  YMMV.

-- 
-Chuck