dvd burner

[Ed Greshko]

Martin Marques wrote:
> Ed Greshko escribió:
>>
>> Direct from the cdrecord man page....
>>
>> DESCRIPTION
>>        Cdrecord  is used to record data or audio Compact Discs on an
>> Orange
>> Book CD-Recorder or to write DVD media on a DVD-Recorder.
>>
>> Care to revise you statement?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> wodim (used to be known as cdrecord) can't write DVD+RW, AFAIK.

Then one wonders why the man page includes....

       -format
              Format  a  CD-RW/DVD-RW/DVD+RW disc.  Formatting is currently
only implemented for DVD+RW media.

Why implement a "format" if you can't write.  :-)

> It's much better to use growisofs (from the dvd+rw-tools package).

Yes, that is true...but it doesn't make the above false.


-- 
 Brannigan: You'll be negotiating with the aliens' mysterious leaders, the
 Brain Balls. They've got a lot of brains, and they've got a lot of chutzpah.