[arch-general] wodim unuseable

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On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:54:20AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at shellworld.net> wrote:
> 
> > Track01 on dvd's always comes up with unknown length when trying to burn a 
> > dvd with wodim.  That's out of two different containers of dvd's too.  
> > These dvd's are single-sided so no danger of blue ray being used here.  
> > Fortunately I can do the burn with another system.
> 
> Cdrecord introduced DVD support in February/March 1998, so there is 14 years of
> verified DVD support in cdrecord.
> 
> wodim started with the cdrecord version from September 2004, removed the DVD 
> support code and replaced it with something half baken. Since May 6th 2007, 
> there was no development activity on "wodim" besides from typo-corrections.
> 
> I recommend to use the actively maintained original cdrtools instead of the 
> dead "fork".

Joerg, will you recommend cdrtools over growisofs for dvds? As
apparently both mkisofs and growisofs do the same thing.

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