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

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On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 08:35:38AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Steve Holmes <steve.holmes88 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I don't know much about the licenses differences and all that crap but
> > I experienced a problem with cdrecord several years ago where it would
> > not work with my CD burner.  I kept getting wiere I/O errors or some
> > such.  When I asked around,some people told me about wodim and when I
> > went out and installed wodim, I've been able to burn CDs and DVDs
> > flawlessly ever since.  My time with wodim has transpired over
> > Slackware, Debian, and now Arch.  I don't know today if cdrecord would
> > still cause me those errors or not but for me, the drkit has been
> > doing me just fine.
> 
> As you do not give any facts, this is obviously nonsense.
> 
> I know of not a single case where cdrecord fails but wodim succeeds.
> Wodim is nothing than an onl version of cdrecord with bugs added by it't
> creators that never have been in the original.
> 
> If you would give evidence, it would be easy to prove that your alleged problem
> is not related to cdrecord.
> 
> Jörg
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Now you know about several of those cases, for I wasn't able to burn my
CD on a modern device (Lenovo SL500's DVD device) with cdrtools
(alpha67, IIRC), but I was able to do it with
cdrkit without an issue.