[ale] DVD burning on CentOS 4.4 using xcdroast

[Scott Castaline]

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.