Re: Fwd: [opensuse-multimedia] wodim/cdrecord

On 02/01/2011 01:25 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Dave Plater <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   
>> I thought I'd forward this to the factory list in the hope of the wodim
>> developer seeing it. The sender of this mail has the complete opposite
>> experience with wodim to myself and at least one other user.
>>     
> I am not sure on whether you know that there is nothing like a "wodim 
> developer".
>
> There are aprox. 100 well known similar bugs in the bundle called "cdrkit" 
> that have been reported many years ago. There was no attempt to fix even the
> easy to fix ones past May 5th 2007. 
>
> Since  May 5th 2007 there have been typo fixes in the man pages but nothing 
> more, so we need to asume that wodim is dead since nearly 4 years. Given the 
> fact, that wodim is based on original software from September 2004, it seems to 
> be obvious to drop this dead piece of software.
>
> There has been a discussion with Suse that resulted in the commitment from Suse 
> (made in September 2009) to include the original software by default.
>
> What is the current state of this commitment?
>
> Does Suse deliver the original software by default?
>
>   
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: 	[opensuse-multimedia] wodim/cdrecord
>> Date: 	Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:11:43 -0500
>> From: 	Steven Sroka <[email protected]>
>> To: 	[email protected]
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> -- 
>> Steven Sroka
>>     
> Jörg
>
>   
I followed the thread on the factory list and I for one and I think I
can speak for jdd as well are happy with your wodim. I was attempting to
bring this to your attention to see if you can shed any light on this
problem.
Dave P.