Unmountable DVDs

[Basil Chupin]

On 01/11/13 20:00, Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> On 01/11/13 18:54, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>> Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>> On 01/11/13 01:41, Nils Kassube wrote:
> [BIG SNIP]
>
>
>> As the article from the author of k3b states what Ubuntu/Kubuntu uses is a
>> fork of the original cdrecord set of tools and this fork introduced bugs
>> into the scheme of things.
>
> Erm, just to put things correctly: that guy is NOT the author of K3b,
> that is the author of cdrecord, and you can safely ignore his
> ramblings, he has his very own interpretation of what a GPL-compliant
> license is and causes the problem that not a single distribution out
> there does ship cdrecord by default, because it is NOT GPL-compliant.
> They do what they do with the mp3 plugins: let the suer decide what
> they want to install. They provide the package, but they don't make it
> default.
>
> Anyway, the problem you have with your DVDs is not related to cdrecord
> at all, as it doesn't come with dvd+rw-tools. The latter is the
> package which is needed to format/write DVD+RW

Ummmm, I don't have any problems with my DVDs or CDs.

I have never had any problems with DVDs or CDs be they RW or plain 
write-once ones.

I think that you must have missed reading some posts in this thread, 
possibly.

BC

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