[ale] DVD burning on CentOS 4.4 using xcdroast

[James Sumners]

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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