CDRecord or Wodim or cdrkit?

[Set Hallstrom]

Hi!

There was a similar thread about this issue brilliantly explained by
Anthony Hall. I allow myself to send you a copy of this message,
hoping it will help you too!

Have a good day all!

*Set

On 01/21/2013 05:30 PM, Anthony Hall wrote:> Hi.
> 
> There is a very easy solution. Provided you live in a country
> where there are no patents on codecs go to: 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
> 
> Read the disclaimer and if it applies, follow the instructions.
> 
> Everything will be working just fine.
> 
> A
> 

On 01/21/2013 11:35 PM, Alf Haakon Lund wrote:
> I'm on Ubuntu Studio 12.10. Recently I had troubles creating a
> playable copy (iso file) of a dvd. VLC is seemingly running the
> first menu but not actually showing anything. Totem / Movie Player
> just stops on opening the iso (made with Brasero, and I've copied
> many dvd's to my harddrive without any problems). XBMC manages to
> play it, but refuses to have subtitles working. I guess the dvd is
> broken, but there's a success message coming from brasero after
> copying...
> 
> From putting cdrecord -version in a terminal it seems that the
> cdrecord version on my system is the forked one, either wodim or
> cdrkit. I'm not sure how to check which. I'd like to try the newer
> version as mentioned on
> http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html to see if it
> fixes my problems, but it looks somewhat complicated.
> 
> So before starting to meddle with my settings I'm curious to hear
> if anyone's got any experience getting this working. Since there is
> a PPA it looks like a smooth ride, but I saw in ubuntuforums that
> some people had trouble making their burning software actually use
> it (still linking to wodim / cdrkit).
> 
> Thankful for any and all input!
> 
> Alf
>