Free DVD Recording Tool For Linux? 160
jobsagoodun writes "
cdrecord-ProDVD is OK for burning DVDs but (i) it grumbles pointlessly about device names and (ii) it has a weird binary-only license that expires every six months or so. There are some Free forks off cdrtools - dvd+rw/+r/-r ,dvdrtools and this patch
- do any of them make a good replacement?"
Some info (Score:5, Informative)
To burn a DVD I just do:
growisofs -Z /dev/burner -R -J /path/to/data
A very good option for doing all this very easily is to get K3b [sourceforge.net] which is part of the KDE distribution.
For authoring DVDs I recently discovered Qdvdauthor [sourceforge.net], and it works like a charm!, I was able to create my own DVDs with menus with custom backgrounds, sound, etc.
Also check my homepage for help about video conversions: http ://dvdripping-guid.berlios.de [berlios.de]
k3b (Score:3, Informative)
K3B (Score:5, Informative)
dvdrecord??/ (Score:2, Informative)
dvdrtools (Score:4, Informative)
dvdrtools (Score:5, Informative)
I use it like this:
It gives a warning about accessing the drive via
growisofs is your friend (Score:5, Informative)
So to burn a data DVD:
growisofs -Z
and to burn a video DVD:
growisofs -Z
I don't know the story behind cdrecord-prodvd and all that license cruft (was Mr. Joerg "you must use SCSI" Schilling involved with that nonsense?)
The less you have to deal with Schilling the better.
Re:Is this a joke? (Score:3, Informative)
it it just a front-end for programs like mkisofs and cdrecord.
Re:Is this a joke? (Score:5, Informative)
I did not think there could be any desktop user that has not heard of k3b...
I did not think there could be any desktop user that doesn't understand k3b is a GUI FRONTEND to several command line tools, one of them being cdrecord-ProDVD for writing DVDs. Without these backends, your k3b will DO NOTHING. Another option for writing DVDs are the dvd+rw-tools, which also work for DVD-R now. THAT is what the question is about, not your GUI-of-the-day.
Perhaps for the next Ask Slashdot we could have a question about free web browsers? Or maybe a free Linux C compiler?
Or maybe have a question about what's the difference about a GUI frontend and an actual work-performing backend?Media Recording in Linux (Score:4, Informative)
For any kind of Linux-related media recording whatsoever, you should definitely check out dyne:bolic [dynebolic.org], i.e. a free multimedia studio in a GNU/Linux live CD:
"dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software.
"dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux distribution simply running from a CD, without the need to install anything, able to recognize most of your devices and periferals: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb devices and more.
"It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning it into a full media station: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console--and if you have more than one, you can easily do clusters."
It is unquestionably invaluable to explore if you are not sure which software do you need to install and use on your own GNU/Linux system (e.g. Debian [debian.org] or Gentoo [gentoo.org]). I hope this helps.
Re:What I'd like to see... (Score:4, Informative)
So here's my formula to get DV to DVD without crufty menus. With almost minimum fuss.
1. use kino to grab the DV and do basic editing. It can't do much editing (i.e. you can't trim in between clips) and it's sluggish in some respects but it works like a charm.
2. Inside kino go to EXPORT->MPEG and select option 8 for the file format.
This uses mpeg2enc, which is amazingly SLOW, but does a good job. Expect many hours encoding 1 hour of footage. My FX-53 is about 1/10th real time. If you want to retain chapters, make sure to select "scene split" before exporting!
3. So now you have one or more
<dvdauthor>
<vmgm
<titleset>
<titles>
<pgc>
<vob file="/path/to/first.mpeg"
<vob file="/path/to/next.mpeg"
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor>
dvdauthor -o my_dvd -x my.xml
5. Burn it with growisofs
growisofs -Z
Voila! Alot of steps and very slow, but not too painful otherwise. And no annoying menus!
Re:Since the post was rather questionable (Score:3, Informative)
hdparm -iI will reveal all.
Also try a UDMA 66/100 (80 wire) cable.
Re:Some info (Score:5, Informative)
I never had a single problem with it from day 1 :)
I'd like to mention that with the -overburn flag I can squeeze a bit more of data (above 4.7 billion bytes but below 4.7 million Kbytes(Kbyte=1024 bytes)) when needed.
In addition I update my dvd burners firmware with PXUpdate for UNIX http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employee s/joerg.schilling/private/firmware.html [fokus.gmd.de], something which is very important for people that don't dual boot.
As demonstrated in https://expressivefreedom.org/Projects/PVR/Firewir e-Methodology.html [expressivefreedom.org] a 4gb+ single file (ie a backup tar/bz2ball) can be squeezed in dvd, which is something that propably(I can't say for sure since I haven't used windows for ages) can't be done in windows.
Chris. PS Use the above at your own risk
from linux weekly news: Alternatives to cdrecord (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Is this a joke? (Score:3, Informative)
KDE is probably the most "well-known" application which uses Qt, and so they're associated together in many people's minds, but Qt doesn't depend on one inch of KDE.
Re:What I'd like to see... (Score:5, Informative)
For lighter work, there is Q DVD-Author [sourceforge.net]. It is FOSS and works well for making DVD's with menus, etc.
dvdrtools/dvdrecord (Score:3, Informative)
I can use readcd to get everything back with errors (~4000-5000 errors per disk), but it's really quite annoying.
So either it's my crappy disks (bought for about 44 cents a pop online in bulk) or it's dvdrecord. I've no idea which, though I'm leaning towards blaming the dvds (in which case, just be aware that cheap dvds aren't worth it!
Just my
Re:Global images (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Is this a joke? (Score:3, Informative)
Wrong. Freshmeat has a page for k3b [freshmeat.net], independent of any larger "kde-tools" package. But you can't find it by searching by reasonable keywords like "DVD burn"- you have to already know that k3b is what you want to search for.
The problem's not the completeness of freshmeat, but the lack of a good way to browse/search.
If you're using scsi emulation (Score:5, Informative)
If you want better speed, upgrade to the latest DVD+/-rw-tools [chalmers.se]. There's a ton of recently fixed speed bugs with newer drives. Install from source is easy. just make && make install as root and it'll copy itself in
Re:Not so fast! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Some info (Score:3, Informative)
Just note that you don't need the entire KDE distribution to have K3b, you only need kdelibs from the KDE distribution.
Re:11th Commandment (Score:3, Informative)
That's a poorly-crafted search term. Too many words in the query means fewer good responses. In this case, the word "free" is basically redundant with "linux", and "burning" is just extra-syllables onto "burn" (try to use the root form of words whenever possible). "Linux DVD Burn" would've been better.
But regardless of that, the page of results given by your query is indeed useful. Two of the results go to forum discussions on LinuxQuestions.org [linuxquestions.org], where a person has asked almost exactly the same question, and gotten almost exactly the same response ("Get K3B") as Asking Slashdot produced.
Re:Some info (Score:2, Informative)
Sure it can be done in Windows. Why do think that your aging Windows knowledge is still current?
Re:Is this a joke? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:k3b (Score:4, Informative)
Schilly is the Dawes of CD recording (Score:3, Informative)
Use the cdrecord that comes in your distro. Red Hat, Suse, and most others now come with patched versions of older cdrecord that handle DVDs fine.
use -scanbus dev=ATA (Score:2, Informative)
That's unless SuSE did something really insane with their fork of cdrecord.
Re:Dev=0,x,0 vs. dev=/dev/hdx (Score:4, Informative)
All I can say is the entire reason I went through the hassle of SCSI on my old system was just to avoid the hassle of ide-scsi with cdrecord. The entire ide-scsi flap seems to be centered around cdrecord and Joerg Schilling's stubborn refusal to accept reality and deviate from his beloved SCSI. Never mind the reality that almost no one carries optical SCSI devices anymore! (Save hard drives you can't find SCSI *anything* anymore!)
Schilling also has his own "make" program, IIRC, because he refuses to write a makefile that works with GNU's make. This was discussed on the amd64 gentoo forum recently.
Then there's cdrecord-prodvd and its annoying nagware license. Again, Schilling at work.
Then recently there was some flap on LKML, though I have not read it because, frankly, I don't know the best place to even look at LKML.
Heck, you can almost get a sense of his attitude from the wording of his website:
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glo
I saw this problem brewing in 2000 when I got my SCSI CD burner--about the last one available. The problem is as long as Schilling is the only person with disc burning software we are all subject to his whims.
So bring on the free and open alternatives. growisofs, for example, is fantastic, although also dependent on mkisofs (which I think is also Schilling software, but at least it doesn't seem to suck yet). Take Schilling out of the loop and then we aren't 100% dependent on him.
Re:UDF write support? (Score:1, Informative)
Simple Answer - Lxdvdrip (Score:3, Informative)
Re:growisofs is your friend (Score:4, Informative)
Amen! Back before dvd+rw tools came out and all there was were some hacks to cdrecord I tried to buy ProDVD but gave up. As far as I could tell there's no way to actually buy it. When searching the newsgroups all I found were several Schilling rants, several people like me trying to buy it without luck, and finally a patch to an old cdrecord version that didn't require a license. If it was an intelligence test you needed to pass to get the damn license I failed miserably.
Re:Dev=0,x,0 vs. dev=/dev/hdx (Score:2, Informative)
No problem [icculus.org]. No UDF or DVD support yet though, I think. I've heard grumbles of speed issues as well, but it is 0.2 after all.
lwn.net coverage (Score:2, Informative)
In case you happen to live under a rock somewhere lwn.net is possibly the best Linux/FOSS news source on the net.
Re:Schilly is the Dawes of CD recording (Score:4, Informative)
Re:dvdrtools (Score:2, Informative)
dev=/dev/foo or dev=ATA:x,y,z (there should not be a technical difference in between these two, just two different ways to specify the same thing) is the prefered interface on 2.6.x.
Re:Some info (Score:1, Informative)
After first trying cdrecord-prodvd a couple of times, I've switched to only using growisofs on Linux and FreeBSD.
cdrtools mailing list (Score:1, Informative)