[Nottingham] a rather vague question about DVD writing

[Martin Garton]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, James Gibbon wrote:

> First - file backups / archiving.  I expect this to be pretty easy
> (mkisofs & dvdrecord?)

dvdrecord is for dvd-r/-rw disks, which from a usage perspective on linux 
behave just like large cd-r/rw disks.

For dvd+r/+rw there is a package called dvd+rw-tools which contains such 
things as dvd+rw-format and growisofs.

These are the tools to use as replacements for mkisofs and dvdrecord, but
with +r/+rw you also have the option of just formatting, mkfs'ing and then
mounting it. very nice (although I haven't has time to try it myself yet 
and you may need a kernel patch)

For more info about dvd+r/rw on linux see 
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/

> Second - copying video material.  I have a (Philips) standalone DVD
> recorder, and would like to transfer DVD+RW material to DVD+R, so

I don't know of an application, but you can mount the source disk, copy
all the files to HD, and manually move or delete the various .VOB files
etc. You can then use mkisofs -dvd-video on the tree and burn the result.

For more about dvd video and linux, see http://dvd.chevelless230.com/
which has more info, and although its oriented around dvd-r not dvd+r, you
can more or less just susbstitute "growisofs -Z" where you see "dvdrecord"
and the rest of the process is the same.

Cheers,
Martin.