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Free DVD Recording Tool For Linux?
jobsagoodun writes "
cdrecord-ProDVD is OK for burning DVDs but (i) it grumbles pointlessly about device names and (ii) it has a weird binary-only license that expires every six months or so. There are some Free forks off cdrtools - dvd+rw/+r/-r ,dvdrtools and this patch
- do any of them make a good replacement?"
To burn a DVD I just do:
growisofs -Z /dev/burner -R -J /path/to/data
A very good option for doing all this very easily is to get K3b which is part of the KDE distribution.
For authoring DVDs I recently discovered Qdvdauthor, and it works like a charm!, I was able to create my own DVDs with menus with custom backgrounds, sound, etc.
Also check my homepage for help about video conversions: http ://dvdripping-guid.berlios.de
DVD Ripping, Divx, VCD, SVCD under Linux
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Problem solved
k3b works great for burning DVDs.
K3B, dvdbackup, and dvdshrink (ran under wine, 3.0b5) work awesome.
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I could be mistaken, but I thought there was a counterpart to cdrecord called dvdrecord.
Problem solved.
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I use it like this:
It gives a warning about accessing the drive via
I just use growisofs! It comes with the dvd+rw-tools and it works like a charm. It only requires mkisofs.
/dev/dvd -r -J my_directory
/dev/dvd -dvd-video my_dvd
So to burn a data DVD:
growisofs -Z
and to burn a video DVD:
growisofs -Z
I don't know the story behind cdrecord-prodvd and all that license cruft (was Mr. Joerg "you must use SCSI" Schilling involved with that nonsense?)
The less you have to deal with Schilling the better.
But for burning data, or formatting DVDs, or even copying or burning a DVD iso is very good.
Even love the kde trick of putting a blank dvd and offering me to launch (even by default) k3b to burn something there.
Is a a good DVD-Authoring system. Its easy enough to burn DVD's on linux and has been for some time K3b uses the command line tools to do its work seamlessly.
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But i'd like it to be easier to dump footage via my DV Camcorder over firewire and dump it on a DVD with a nice little menu. Just by clicking a couple of buttons. Alas I havent come across anything like this yet. Which is why im still hankering after a powerbook.
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The other thing to do is to dump some form of Windows (from 95 up to XP) to the virtualization program and install one of the more contemporary DVD recorders on it (Nero works well, but shop around.) QEMU works fast enough that DVD burning can be a reality under this setup, but you'll need to set up something like Samba on the Linux side or NFS under Windows in order to bridge the systems for DVD authoring using your Linux material.
Hope this helps -- if at all curious, please drop by #linux on EFnet and ask for more information.
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I would like to know if there is any good linux soft that REALLY write the cd-text.
I tryed a lot (including k3b and others), and none worked.
Thanks
Does anyone know of any Linux DVD burning software to burn global images? (Sonic RecordNow .gi)
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I become more impressed with kde each time I use it, which is daily. The level of integration must surely be the equal of its closed-source rivals.
BTW I do most of my work on SuSE 9.1, but it (kde) seems much the same on the other machines, Xandros, FC2 and even FreeBSD (although I have not yet tried DVD writing on the latter).
I get the impression that each of kde and gnome is in itself a much bigger achievement than the kernel, and certainly they are important because new users or prospective users see the GUI first. They don't care about the window manager, or the X implementation, or even the kernel. But Linux distros are clearly doing something right.
BTW my DVD writer is multi-mode (+/-R and RW, and RAM) and the type of blank disc was correctly identified without any messing about by me, much to my surprise, as I have seen the "other" OS have problems.
I don't know whether there is any free DVD recording software for Linux, but I am sure that "DVD Jon" will gladly write it in no time, provided that doing so would violate copyright, DMCA and/or patent law.
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let's ask another question that might be more interesting to the majority who seem to already be using K3B.
I heard that one of the big changes in the 2.6 kernel was that the SCSI emmulation was dropped for optical burning and that this should improve performance.
Well sure enough, my CD writing speeds went nuts. I had never burnt a CD at 20X using that PC which, granted was only a K62 500, but Nero had never gotten to speeds that high without using up the buffer in a few seconds. But with the 2.6 kernel I was getting 20X sustained without even touching the buffer. I was truly impressed.
BUT!
Unfortunately, the same thing didn't hold true for DVD. My DVD burner, which is the same machine, an 8X+/-RW CyQue AKA MET, that was giving me the insane CD writing speeds was still quite slow with DVDs.
This was disappointing because using the bundled Nero that had come with the burner I could get 4X easily even writing over the network and 8X was technically doable although it spent more time refilling the cache than writing. After seeing the CD write speed so high, I really hoped that the 2.6 kernel would give me equally fast DVD write speeds. Instead, my DVD write speeds are less than one speed which is quite slow.
However, I'm not saying Nero on Windows is better even though it is faster. I still use 2.6 kernel and K3B to write DVDs because Linux doesn't choke on filenames like Windows does and cheap media that fails in Nero still at least writes in K3B.
On this last note, I want to clarify that I've used many different media and all of them seem to give the same result. So, this isn't a cheap media related issue.
There's a better ask slashdot topic.
For any kind of Linux-related media recording whatsoever, you should definitely check out dyne:bolic, i.e. a free multimedia studio in a GNU/Linux live CD:
"dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software.
"dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux distribution simply running from a CD, without the need to install anything, able to recognize most of your devices and periferals: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb devices and more.
"It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning it into a full media station: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console--and if you have more than one, you can easily do clusters."
It is unquestionably invaluable to explore if you are not sure which software do you need to install and use on your own GNU/Linux system (e.g. Debian or Gentoo). I hope this helps.
Sincerely,
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...with tkDVD and xcdroast. Had these both on my system for quite some time. Most likely require dvd+rwtools and growisofs.
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Kernel 2.6.8 has effectively killed non root users from burning CDs and DVDs.
I would really like to see packet-writing working properly on linux, so I can use my CD-Rs and CD-RW as a read-write medium like a floppy (an ever shrinking floppy in the CD-R case, but that's okay). similarly for DVDs.
UDF and packet writing would rock!
Well i always do my burning on an alphaserver, on which cdrecord-prodvd won't run.. Not because it couldn't compile, cdrecord compiles perfectly on it, but simply because the author doesnt see fit to produce a binary for my platform.
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Recently I installed Suse 9.1 and discovered that "cdrecord -scanbus" no longer did the job it used to do. Took me a while to figure out I could use a "dev/hdx".
... I still don't get it.
As I understand it, the author of cdrecord is livid over this issue. I've read a bit on mailing lists, but I still don't understand what the big deal is either way. Although somewhere I heard a comment that it may be a way for the author to make money off his DVD burning program
Can anyone summarize what this fight is all about?
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In *nix it takes 20 steps to burn a DVD, that is if you can get the "free" program to work and recognize your drive.
In Windows XP I just drop and drag
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Well, I don't know if this is the fault of dvdrtools/dvdrecord or just the fact that I bought generic, cheap disks . . . but 1/3 disks I burn are unreadable immediately thereafter (ie- after the burn is finished, mount the disk and md5sum the files). And some 6 months later I've found that almost every disk I ever burned won't mount right . . .
:)
.44 worth of useless dvdness . . .
I can use readcd to get everything back with errors (~4000-5000 errors per disk), but it's really quite annoying.
So either it's my crappy disks (bought for about 44 cents a pop online in bulk) or it's dvdrecord. I've no idea which, though I'm leaning towards blaming the dvds (in which case, just be aware that cheap dvds aren't worth it!
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You should already have DMA, since it's on by default in scsi emulation (I used to turn scsi emulation on for just that purpose). Still, you're better off w/o scsi emulation, it can do weird things with the device nodes. Check your lilo.conf or grub.conf for the line 'hdc=ide-scsi' and remove it.
/usr/local where k3b will find it (you'll have to go in and tell k3b to use the new binaries). I couldn't set my speeds correctly until I upgraded, and was left choosing between 8x (not happening on my 4x media) or 1x. Once I upgrade everthing just worked.
If you want better speed, upgrade to the latest DVD+/-rw-tools. There's a ton of recently fixed speed bugs with newer drives. Install from source is easy. just make && make install as root and it'll copy itself in
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K3b works great for me when writing CD-R's, but I'm finding that DVD's of all sorts will write but then fail the md5sum verify that k3b performs. I'm trying to figure out if it's a hardware issue, a kernel issue, or related to autofs and scsi emulation. Has anyone else had experience with this?
A UDF filesystem split across multiple sessions.
And don't forget you need tons of space in your Local Settings/Temp folder (at least as much as you want to copy in an increment).
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OK, I'm serious here. I've been attempting to use ProDVD under Windows for the last 3 months, but Schilling doesn't seem to be responding to requests for new licenses (there isn't a public one for Windows like there is for Linux), so I've abandoned that idea. I'm currently using Nero, but I would much rather have a _free_ _command line_ tool that I can do this with, because then I can integrate it with DVDStyler and have author & burn in a single step. I can burn CDs just fine with cdrdao, but I haven't found anything equivalent for DVDs. Any suggestions?
install the RPMS for your distro, and after that its a breeze to burn/read your DVD stuff from the commandline:
http://crashrecovery.org/oss-dvd/HOWTO-ossdvd.html
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Makes a great tool, but screws it up in his desire for control. Schilly cdrecord is no longer Open Source in its most recent versions due to a license change. GIYF.
Use the cdrecord that comes in your distro. Red Hat, Suse, and most others now come with patched versions of older cdrecord that handle DVDs fine.
That's unless SuSE did something really insane with their fork of cdrecord.
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http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=l xdvdrip
This above link is where you can find the software.
This link below is how you can use it to perfection. Lxdvdrip is quite literally configurable to a 1 click dvd backup software. You can set it up to where all you do is click an icon and you're done as it does everything else for you (if configured right and with a dvd r/w and a seperate dvd rom to read from unless you want to switch dvd's in the middle of the process).
http://pcpitstop.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic= 59445&hl=lxdvdrip
Read this thread here and you'll find out how to configure it to work for you as well as delete all the temp files when done.
Warder had put together a nice script for DVD backing up to 4.7G Discs found here.
Does the same thing as DVD Shrinks as per winblows.
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on my BeOS i can use good software to do that
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This is exactly how I feel. Moderating my post as "-1, Flamebait" was a serious mistake.
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
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I use the dvd+rw-tools (the fy.chalmers.se URL you posted). My experience is very good, it works flawlessly. The only problem is if you need to burn something that mkisofs can't create (e.g. audio tracks, video DVD or I don't know what) on the second+ track. I personally find growisofs sufficient (I use my burner basically only for backups), but I can imagine there are people who want more.
At first I tried the closed source cdrecord-DVDplus, but somehow couldn't get it working satisfactorily.
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Once you have the image file, you can burn it with just about anything - but "mkudffs" is just a bit too complex for a lot of users to deal with, even if you give them a simple script that takes everything in a directory and turn it into a UDF file system. They just want to drag and drop the same way they do in Nero.
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They also drag in a trainload of dependencies. I use both, load all the libraries and be damned with the overhead. That's what having a multi-GHz processor and gigabyte-range RAM is all about. Contrary to MS-Windows, KDE is getting noticeably slimmer and faster these days, and thanks to constant whining from (forex) Mandrake Cooker denizens, the apps are becoming more modular as well (with the notable exception of Kontact and friends).
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