DVD burning with DSL 3.1?

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: DVD burning with DSL 3.1?
started by: vees

Posted by vees on Dec. 04 2006,13:36

Hi,

First - congrats for the truly beautiful DSL 3.1! It is superb and (so far) seems very stable.

One question though: can I burn DVDs with DSL 3.1? I need to backup data on DVD+R and DVD+RW and I also would like to make backup copies of (commercial) DVDs unto either DVD+R and DVD+RW.

Which application should I use (and/or fetch from the myDSL extensions)?

Many thanks!

VS

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Dec. 04 2006,15:30

For newer DSL versions:
(1.3 changelog)
Replaced Bash Burn with cdw.

Posted by mikshaw on Dec. 04 2006,15:41

tkdvd
< http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....sl.info >

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Dec. 04 2006,18:09

Any idea if the stuff in DSL base can do cd's as well? I guess I sort of assumed they did... (cdrecord, etc.) but I'm not really much into the whole dvd phase yet.

Posted by mikshaw on Dec. 04 2006,19:19

As far as I know, burning DVDs requires additional tools not found in the DSL base, but I'm not sure about that. All I really know for sure is that I was not able to burn on DVD with cdrecord. Now that my DVD drive has gone flakey I can't verify.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Dec. 04 2006,20:08

From that .info

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...and an updated cdrecord - included

hm, maybe that's why...

Posted by Selim on Dec. 04 2006,23:28

TkDVD is a GUI to dvd+rw-tools and cdrecord. It's dvd+rw-tools (Not included in DSL base) that allows burning DVDs.

Posted by skaos on Dec. 06 2006,14:08

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Now that my DVD drive has gone flakey I can't verify.

I had a "dead" cd-writer which I "fixed" by taking out the cables (both ends) and reseating them a few times. Maybe this could fix your drive as well.