dvd+rw-tools Ported to FreeBSD

Dan writes "Matthew Dillon has finished porting Andy Polyakov's excellent dvd+rw-tools to FreeBSD. These tools support DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW format dvd burners, including the popular Sony 500A, which he has bought himself. He says that these tools should work on a wider variety of burners than the half-broken GNU dvdrecord tools work on."

Comments

dvd+rw-tools == dd(1)

[hubertf]

IIRC the growisofs tool that's the core of the dvd+rw-tools is really just a frontend to dd(1), and you don't really need it, *IF* you have a decent driver that allows dd(1)ing a ISO image to it.
Tried it some time ago under SuSE 8.something, worked.

- Hubert

Re:dvd+rw-tools == dd(1)

[phoenix_rizzen]

growisofs is a front-end to mkisofs, which has no relation to dd. When in doubt, read the FAQ. :)

Re:Isn't it funny that *BSD has to port everything

[cperciva]

That means that most programmers are using OS specific syscalls in their programs.

Not necessarily. I count 8817 ports in the tree right now, of which only 4663 have local patches.

In many cases, the "port" is used as nothing more than a convenient front-end to the package system.