DVD Burner Questions

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Tue Nov 16 15:52:59 UTC 2004


alan wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Monday 15 November 2004 20:40, Joseph McCrary wrote:
>>
>>>I just purchased a TDK DVD burner. I downloaded and installed
>>>xcdroast. When I run it, it says I need ProDVD support. So I
>>>downloaded cdrecord-prodvd-2.01b31-i686-pc-linux-gnu. How do I
>>>install it?
>>>
>>>Thank you.
>>>
>>>Joe (An obvious Linux newbie)
>>
>>Rather hard to advise when you didn't give us the complete filename so 
>>we know what format the file is actually in.
> 
> 
> A better solution is to use K3B instead.
> 
> It does not require the closed source ProDVD driver to burn DVDs.
> 
> It comes with FC2 and FC3.
> 
> It is a MUCH better app than xcdroast.  (And I used to use xcdroast 
> exclusively until I found K3B.) 
> 
> Give it a try.
> 

Ditto. :)

I was going to post the exact same answer.  I haven't looked at 
anything else since.

-- 
Robin Laing




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