[arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

[Joerg Schilling]

Johann Peter Dirichlet <peterdirichlet.freesoftware at gmail.com> wrote:

> That is not the case for cdrkit. It has a lower quality than the
> original software. In fact, I lost some DVD discs with wodim :( but it
> is just with me (many people say that cdrkit is buggy, many people say
> that is good).

There is a simple reason for this problem:

I added DVD support to cdrecord in February 1998. The original DVD support code 
is (as you can see) 12 years old and I would call it mature. Wodim dumped the 
original DVD support code and replaced it by some half baken code written by a 
guy from Mandriva. This code does not even read the media parameters from the
blank media (as you can prove by calling cdrecord -atip vs. wodim -atip).



Jörg

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