Debian and cdrecord under >2.6.8

[Dave Andruczyk]

--- JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com> wrote:

> This is very frustrating- what are debian user's here doing for cdrecord? I
> have a DVD burner that I'm not having much luck burning CDs on.
> 
> I have 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 kernels (packaged) NOT using IDE-SCSI as its
> deprecated.
> 
> Cdrecord from testing and cdrecord-prodvd.  I'm haivng a horrible time
> getting
> this to work.  I won;t go into particulars as I have only moments right now.
> 
> I'm just looking for ideas.  What are you folks using?  2.4 kernel with
> ide-scsi, 2.6 kernel with ide-scsi
> 2.6 kernel with ide-cd and some different version of cdrecord?  (recall I
> need
> it to work with a DVD burner)
> 

If you're using it to burn DVD's I use growisofs from dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8

I make my DVD layout using the tools from tovid (tovid.sf.net).  (I can demo at
a meeting if anyone cares to learn how) Get your files in DVD compatible
formats with "tovid", create your menus with "makemenu", create the dvd XML
wiht "makexml", create the DVD structure with "dvdauthor", and then run
"growisofs -dvd-video -Z /dev/sr1 /path/to/dvd/structure/"  as ROOT (you can
NOT run it under sudo)  

replace /dev/sr1 with the path to your burner. (mine is a firewire one so it
shows up as a SCSI device)

All of the tovid stuff is fairly well documented on
http://tovid.sourceforge.net
Tovid has a gui as well,  but it's VERY buggy as of the 0.18b release and NOT
recommended.



Dave J. Andruczyk

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