[ale] Burning a dvd with cdrecord?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 21:06, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>   I have an IDE DVD (Sony).  I just made a cute little DVD of my son's
> graduation from kindergarten and want to make copies for my remote
> family.  I put the DVD in the drive and did a:
> 
>   dd if=/dev/sr0  of=/tmp/Graduation.raw
> 
> This created a 2.3Gig file in /tmp.  I tried to burn it with:
> 
> cdrecord --speed=4 -v dev=3,0,0 -eject /tmp/Graduation.raw
> 
> Looked good until cdrecord complained that it didn't have DVD-R/DVD-RW
> support code.  Anyone know how I can burn this DVD so I can send these
> things out to my family?

2 things. Make sure you have the right DVD format disk (i.e. a "+" disk
in a "+" drive or a "-+" drive) then upgrade the cdrecord package. The
latest ones do support DVD burning. I can't test it as I am still
technologically challenged in that area.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> :wq!
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