[Herefordshire] Best supported DVD Writer formats ?

[Ralph Jones]

Lo Julian, lo all, 

Enclosed my ha'penny's worth on this.

HTH 

Ralph

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 09:54 +0000, Julian Robbins wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Can anyone suggest what is the best way to go when buying a DVD Writer 
> for a Linux PC ? Should it be DVD +R/RW or DVD -R/RW ? I've discounted 
> DVD-RAM.

This is the best guide I've found recently on this matter - I haven't
read it all, just bookmarked it for when my Xmas bonus comes through.

http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;282707134

It might also be worth checking http://www.arstechnica.com and
http://www.tomshardware.com.
 
> And does Linux support the 'multi' recorders that appear to be able to 
> handle both formats ?
> 
> Also which format is easiest to get working under Linux. I would be 
> using Redhat 9, Possibly Fedora Core 1 and Mandrake 9.2 for this.

On these questions, have you checked the Hardware Compatibility List
(HCL) on linuxquestions.org? Always the first place I look whenever I do
some hardware window shopping/wishlist compilation.