Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type
On Tue 27 January 2004 20:11, Thomas J Magliery PhD wrote:
>
> You might recall from my first emails that I was also getting
> this error from within xcdroast, which used the (same) authentic
> binary from your site. I didn't realize that the command line
> used the RLH9 RPM installation of dvdrecord. Sorry for the
> confusion. Incidentally, do I correctly understand that the
> dvdrecord command no longer exists (or that cdrecord-ProDVD is
> the new dvdrecord)? Or was dvdrecord just some Red Hat package
> of cdrecord-ProDVD?
Well, first there was cdrecord, which is GPL. Then DVD writers
appeared, and someone adapted cdrecord to be able to record to his
DVD drive, and called it dvdrecord. He didn't make very clear that
this was a modified version of cdrecord (or at least not clear
enough as far as Jörg's concerned) which according to Jörg violates
section 2a of the GPL. Hence his calling it illegal.
In the mean time, Jörg published cdrecord-ProDVD under a proprietary
license. cdrecord-ProDVD is better tested than dvdrecord, and it
works with most if not all drives currently on the market, and not
just the one or two that dvdrecord works with. cdrecord development
was then suspended for a while, and Andy Polyakov made dvd+rw-tools
(growisofs) which is mainly meant for DVD+ drives, and is open
source under the GPL. It seems to work very well, and is
well-supported.
So, in summary, and regardless of whether dvdrecord is illegal or
not, you're probably better off using either cdrecord-ProDVD or
dvd+rw-tools to write DVDs, since they're better on a technical
level, and have good support.
(Note to Jörg and Andy: that was off the top of my head, if anything
is inaccurate, please correct me)
Lourens
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