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dvd+rw-tools Ported to FreeBSD

Posted by Hemos on from the hey-now-get-your-port-on dept.

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."

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  1. rejoice by Ahaldra · · Score: 3, Interesting
    just IMHO the cdrecord-prdvd tools suck - read, for exampl. this readme - they suck because they are essentially not really free. this thingee seems to be a step in the right direction, although one still needs the cdrtools according to this faq.

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    1. Re:rejoice by prmths · · Score: 1, Interesting

      i like cdrecord-prodvd ... it actually works for me
      dvd+rw-tools locks my machine half the time...
      made about $30 worth of coasters so far
      not being free is a DEFINITE bummer though

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  2. Re:Isn't it funny that *BSD has to port everything by cperciva · · Score: 2, Interesting

    True. On the other hand, the word "port" has gone from verb to noun, and is now being verbified again. That is to say, "to port" means to fix operating system-specific code; "a port" is either the result of porting something, or anything in the ports tree; and "to portify" means to add the necessary wrappers to make some code fit into the ports tree.

    Isn't the English language great?

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  3. half-broken GNU dvdrecord by zdzichu · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What is so bad in cdrecord (modified to be dvdrecord)? I'm not trolling, I'm curious.

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