DVD for watching DVDs and burning DVDs...

[redletterrocko]

Alright, final question, maybe... But this place is OH SO HELPFUL! I haven't been played with Linux since 2.4.16 was out, and there's been a lot of changes since then. (YAY!) Anyway, I've got a DVD burner, which is an excellent contraption. I used to use mplayer but I can't get the sucker (or xine) to work (I will deal with that). DVD-burning, however, is a big priority to me. Apparently, scsi emulation on a cd-rom isn't neccessary anymore for cd writing, but how 'bout DVD? How can I tell if DMA is enabled (it needs to be...), and what does my kernel config need to look like in order to get this burning at a decent rate? I have Debian on an Inspiron 6000, and haven't been able to find any decent information on it. I paid for a DVD-burner, I want a freakin' DVD burner! --)

 

[stefanwagner]

hdparm -i /dev/hdc​

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[zeland]

As of 2.6 kernel, you do not need SCSI emulation anymore. To burn DVDs, you'll need the mkisofs prog from the cdrtools package and the growisofs package.


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[Kozusnik]

K3B is a good GUI package to burn cds and dvds. As for watching dvds, I think you need libdvdread. I believe that's all.

Mark

 

[jstreich]

There are also extentions to cdrecord that will burn DVDs. growisofs is amazing, it even allows me to burn Dual Layer DVDs.

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