OSS DVD extensions for cdrtools

OSS DVD extensions for cdrtools 2.0 is a opensource extension to add DVD support to Jörg Schilling's cdrtools package.

A patch for cdrtools-2.0 is created and is actually a translation of a patch which can be found on abcpages.com. That patch is based upon cdrtools 1.11. The patch given here is based upon cdrtools-2.00.tar.gz. The objective is to give cdrtools dvd extensions without imposed limits, and also to have a Open Source solution to burn dvd's. Currently DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD+R DL support is added. As a convenience also SRPM and RPM packages for several RPM based Linux distro'sare given. Here's a usefull short HOWTO on setting up and using your CD/DVD writer for the first time, in case you detect problems.

For DVD+R see other projects. For instance checkout dvd+rw-tools. I wrote a small HOWTO on how to write SAO/DAO dvd iso's on DVD+R using growisofs. Recently OSS DVD functionality has been expanded with DVD+RW and DVD+R DL burning, with the release of cdrtools-2.01.01a01-ossdvd.patch.bz2.

OSS DVD Extensions and k3b

OSS DVD Extensions works perfectly together with k3b, the magnificent swiss army knife burning tool for KDE/Linux. With the recent release of k3b 1.0.3 a new era on the Linux desktop has emerged, as this k3b version makes all these rip/shrink/edit tools on the Microsoft Windows [tm] platform redundant. That is if the DVD recordable is large enough to store the ripped decrypted iso. In fact k3b has gained the same functionality as DVD Decrypter, which as many know, has been banned for download.

The OSS DVD Extensions for cdrtools are licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL). See also the Changelog and Disclaimer.

HTTP downloads of OSS DVD Extensions for cdrtools

All downloads. The patch, SRPMS and RPMS with the extension ossdvd are compliant with the GPL license. They fix the GPL § 2 subclause c requirement as Jörg Schilling pointed out in the DISCLAIMER below. The patch, SRPMS and RPMS with the extension dvd are not. And should thus not be used as such.

FTP downloads of OSS DVD Extensions for cdrtools

OSS DVD Extentions (the patch and several SRPM and RPM packages for RPM based distro's)

OSS DVD Extension for cdrtools Changelog.

OSS DVD Extension for cdrtools Screenshots.

The OSS DVD patch doesn't harm the compatibility of cdrtools-2.00 to function as engine for some CD burning GUI frontends like e.g. xcdroast. Here's some screen shots taken on Mandrake 10.0 using Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a32 ( cdrecord-2.01-0.a32.1mdk_ossdvd ) as engine and xcdroast-0.98-33.alpha15mdk as the GUI frontend. The philosophy is that a DVD-R(W) is just a large CD-R(W) and that it only takes a extra generic DVD-R(W) driver to read/burn this media :
mmc_mdvd generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver

The Pioneer DVR-A07D (also known as 107) burns 8x using the 2.01a18-ossdvd patch : Flashing and Burning on Linux
Burning DVD+R DL with the Pioneer DVR-A09 (also known as 109) and the NEC ND-3540A using the cdrtools-2.01.01a01-ossdvd.patch : Dual Layer Burning on Linux using OSS DVD
Flashing Plextor DVDR Burners with the pxupdate for Linux : Flashing your PLEXTOR PX-716A using PXUpdate V1.39 for Linux
Burning Dual Layer discs with growisofs : dual layer 8gb problem ? Kudos go to DBabo for addressing this problem :)

New patch release cdrtools-2.01a32-ossdvd.patch.bz2 which is adjusted to work with cdrtools-2.01a32.tar.bz2. For Mandrake 10.0 currently (S)RPMS are provided. More (S)RPMS are to follow.
New patch release cdrtools-2.01.01a01-ossdvd.patch.bz2 which is adjusted to work with cdrtools-2.01.01a01.tar.bz2. For Mandrake 10.1, Mandriva 2005 LE and CentOS4 currently (S)RPMS Mandrake 10.1, (S)RPMS Mandriva 2005LE aka Mandrake 10.2 and (S)RPMS CentOS 4.x are provided. More (S)RPMS are to follow.

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