[vox-tech] DVD playback and burning under Debian; IDE DVD+/-RW drive

[Peter Jay Salzman]

if you can wait a bit, DVD writers that can write DVD-9 media will be
coming out soon.  this will double the 4.7GB you can get on DVD-5 media.

it also means you can make backups of your commercial DVD's without
fiddling with them, like yanking foreign language, yanking subtitles,
compressing, etc.

i think phillips is coming out with it first.

pete



On Wed 26 Nov 03,  8:36 AM, Jonathan Stickel <jjstickel@myrealbox.com> said:
> That Sony DRU-510A is a good drive. I just bought one at Fry's last week 
> myself after having success with my wife's external Sony DVD+/-RW drive. 
>  It has dropped in price about $130 since it first hit the shelves. 
> Soon it will be replaced by the next model which burns at 8x.
> 
> Bill Kendrick wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:48:08AM -0800, Ryan wrote:
> ...
> >
> >>I've got also got a sony multiformat burner. Mine only really seems to 
> >>like to work right with cdrecrod-ProDVD. It's a little picky about 
> >>blanks, but otherwise works well. I'd be happy to lend you a DVD+RW to 
> >>play with.
> >
> ...
> >>install libdvdcss, then ogle (or mplayer, but it's menu support sucks). I 
> >>personaly compiled these from source....
> >
> >
> >Note that step 1 is to figure out data storage, rather than DVD authoring 
> >:)
> >5GB is a nice size for backups or "move this crap off the HD" storage.
> >
> Ogle, mplayer, or xine (which is what I use) are all media players that 
> will play DVDs.  You need another set of software for DVD authoring, 
> which is even much more complicated.  I've given up doing DVD authoring 
> in Linux :(
> >
> ...
> >>I know doug does dvd burning and whatnot under linux, but I do not know 
> >>what distro he uses.
> >
> >
> >Again, see above.  I wanna do "drop 4GB of files onto the disc so I can 
> >read
> >them later," and not necessarily "let's make a DVD movie to watch" :^)
> 
> There has been a few threads here about DVD burning (wrapped up with DVD 
> authoring, so you may have overlooked them).  I never had any success 
> personally, but I will try again soon.  I tried using DVD+RW tools, 
> which can be found here: http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/  But 
>  it didn't work for me, so I will try cdrecord-ProDVD next like Ryan 
> suggests.  (Right now I do DVD burning in Windows with Sony's bundled 
> software)
> 
> Jonathan
> 
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