[arch-general] wodim unuseable

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 19.03.2012 11:54, schrieb Joerg Schilling:
> 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".

That reminds me, I was going to re-add cdrtools to the repositories, but
I forgot, because I never write CDs or DVDs anyway (and when I do, it
works with what I have installed right now).

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