Tips on burning to Bluray (BD-R) media under Fedora 20

poma pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Sun May 11 08:47:40 UTC 2014


On 09.05.2014 08:00, Tim wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 14:37 -0500, Steven Ulrick wrote:
>> I eventually found out that I messed up when I bought this drive...
>> It can't burn Bluray discs. 
> 
> The same kind of thing happened when DVDs came out - there were a few
> CD-burner/DVD-reader combo drives.
> 
> I suppose they're catering to the people who don't want to burn the
> latest media, just watch videos, and/or don't have machines with enough
> oomph for burning video discs.  And back then, it was some time before
> you could get blank DVDs, so the CD-burner/DVD-reader combo made sense.
> 
> 

This vendor specifies devices very clearly, 
even devices per se have specific names. :)

e.g.

- BC-12B1ST
  Writing Mode: DVD+R ...
  "BC" == "Blu-ray Combo"
  "Combo" == "Reader"

- BW-12B1ST
  Writing Mode: BD-RE ...
  "BW" == "Blu-ray Writer"


poma




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