Using LightScribe on Linux???

[Fred Smith]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:12:36PM -0500, Doug wrote:
> On 02/16/2014 09:35 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> >I've got a project in which I'll be making many dozens of DVDs from
> >other media, and I thought it'd be really cool to use LightScribe to
> >label the discs.
> >
> >well, I come to discover that LightScribe seems to have gone out of
> >fashion, and I can't find suitable software anywhere.
> >
> >LaCie used to distribute software for Linux that reportedly worked
> >well, but I can't find it either,... it has disappeared from their
> >web site.
> >
> >Can anyone point me to a site that may still have it? (or other
> >suitable substitute).
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> What you need is LightScribe Simple Labeler. It looks like you can
> get it from this outfit:
> 
> http://www.pawtec.com/lightscribe/
> 
> You actually need two programs--they should both come with the
> download, if I
> remember it correctly.*  I have been using LIghtScribe for several
> years. It does
> seem to be out of fashion, nowadays, and I 'm not sure that the LightScribe
> company still exists. (Maybe it was Lite-On?) Anyway you can still buy disks
> and you can still get drives--I just bought a low-profile internal
> LightScribe drive for
> my laptop. But this situation is likely to deteriorate, so it would
> be a good idea to
> anticipate your needs, for hardware, software and media, and buy now!
> (The software is free.)

I have a couple of lightscribe-capable dvd+-RW drives, and was just this
weekend looking for another one, but it seems that both Newegg and Amazon
have only a very few and most are suffering from increased pricing.

Amazon still has lots of lightscribe-dable DVD+-RW media, so I'll probably
grab a big spindle there.

In looking around last night I found some reference to a program named
something like "contrast enhancer", but didn't find the actual program.
might that be one of the tools you have?

thanks for the reply, I'll go look there for the programs.

> 
> *Maybe they don't.  In my download directory I find
> 
> lightscribe-1.18.27.10-linux-2.6-intel.rpm
> lightscribeApplications-1.18.15.1-linux-2.6-intel.rpm
> 
> The first file is 825987 B, the second file is 9756232 B.
> If you can't find these files, send me a message directly--I think
> they are small enough
> to send without my server complaining.
> 
> I see you're sending from Fedora, so these rpms should work just
> fine. I'm on PCLOS,
> and they work fine for me.
> 
> --doug
> 
> 
> 
> 
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