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

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.