Unmountable DVDs

Myriam Schweingruber myriam at kubuntu.org
Fri Nov 1 10:17:17 UTC 2013


Basil, check again: I did NOT address this to you, I answered in the
thread, my post starts with "Hi all".

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 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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