[ale] DVD burning on CentOS 4.4 using xcdroast

[Jerry Yu]

Thanks, James. That's good information. I assumed it was contributed under
GPL. what a shame. Any particular reason he wanted CDDL instead of a GPLv1 ?

On 2/12/07, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> 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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