Re: wodim/cdrecord

On 01/31/2011 06:11 AM, Steven Sroka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if anyone is aware of this, but I've been seeing this
> everywhere and its quite old.
>
> I've copied the relevent lines from:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=447910
>
> "you are not using cdrecord but a bastardizd variant that
> does not really support to write DVDs."
>
> This issue still exists because opensuse still provides
> wodim/cdrecord. I actually ran into this because wodim/cdrecord kept
> ruining my DVD's.
>
>   
A while ago sometime between 11.2 and 11.3, I think, Joerg Schilling the
original cdrecord author came onto the factory list and bugged the hell
out of everybody. As a result we have the correct one and imo it works a
100% better than the earlier one, I used to have to set 16x dvds to 8x
and 8x to 4x or they very often became frisbees. If you search the
factory ml archives you should find it.
 wodim --version
Cdrecord-yelling-line-to-tell-frontends-to-use-it-like-version
2.01.01a03-dvd
Wodim 1.1.9
Copyright (C) 2006 Cdrkit suite contributors
Based on works from Joerg Schilling, Copyright (C) 1995-2006, J. Schilling
I've just woken up but it's coming back to me, you need this package
installed :
Name        : cdrkit-cdrtools-compat       Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.1.9                             Vendor: openSUSE
Release     : 8.2                           Build Date: Tue 06 Jul 2010
12:12:24 AM SAST
Install Date: Fri 10 Sep 2010 04:15:42 PM SAST      Build Host: build33
Group       : Productivity/Multimedia/CD/Record   Source RPM:
wodim-1.1.9-8.2.src.rpm
Size        : 0                                License: GPLv2+
Signature   : RSA/8, Tue 06 Jul 2010 12:12:55 AM SAST, Key ID
b88b2fd43dbdc284
Packager    : http://bugs.opensuse.org
URL         : http://cdrkit.org/
Summary     : Tool for Writing CDRs - cdrtools compatibility package
Description :
This package contains these compatibility symlinks: cdrecord -> wodim
mkisofs -> genisoimage cdda2wav -> icedax

Install this package if you can't use the cdrkit programs directly.



Authors:
--------
    Joerg Jaspert (leader, release management)
    Eduard Bloch (developer, patch integration)
    Steve McIntyre (developer)
    Peter Samuelson (developer, QA)
    Christian Fromme (QA)
    Joerg Schilling (original cdrecord)
Distribution: openSUSE 11.3


Regards
Dave P
maintainer openSUSE multimedia