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Re: Oversized DVD

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Joerg Schilling wrote:

> In article <j1c765$ehp$2@dont-email.me>, J G Miller  <miller@yoyo.ORG>
> wrote:
>>On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:35:22 +0000, NotBob wrote:
> 
>>I would think that it is libata interface module which has to be able
>>to do the right thing in communicating with the actual single or double
>>layer hardware, but I could be in error and welcome correction.
> 
> Kernel interfaces may prevent writing if they are buggy, they cannot
> support it.
> 
>>Remember though that k3b is only a GUI and all of the actual writing
>>is done underneath by a combination of wodim or cdrskin, cdparanoia,
>>cdrdao, and genisoimage, and I would guess that these have to be SL/DL
>>aware in order to work out if the sizes of the images to burn are within
>>the appropriate limits.
> 
> Be careful, wodim does not even support to do simple DVD writes correctly
> and wodim does not support DUAL layer at all. 

Really???

I have burnt many dual layer dvds. I am using Arch linux which you well know 
installs wodim by default.

> This is because wodim is a
> dead fork from a 7 year old cdrecord version and because even the old DVD
> writing support in cdrecord has been ripped off and replaced by something
> half baken.
> 
> Also note that genisoimage is full of bugs in special when you are going
> to go bejond the 4 GB barrier.
> 
> The original software on the other side is well maintained and added many
> new feaures since September 2004.

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Oversized DVD notbob <notbob@notbob.invalid> - 2011-07-31 01:35 +0000
  Re: Oversized DVD notbob <notbob@notbob.invalid> - 2011-07-31 01:54 +0000
    Re: Oversized DVD J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-07-31 12:07 +0000
      Re: Oversized DVD notbob <notbob@notbob.invalid> - 2011-07-31 12:41 +0000
        Re: Oversized DVD J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-07-31 13:55 +0000
          Re: Oversized DVD notbob <notbob@notbob.invalid> - 2011-07-31 16:49 +0000
            Re: Oversized DVD J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-07-31 17:39 +0000
              Re: Oversized DVD notbob <notbob@notbob.invalid> - 2011-08-03 17:35 +0000
                Re: Oversized DVD J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-08-03 19:22 +0000
                Re: Oversized DVD Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2011-08-03 21:33 +0200
                Re: Oversized DVD GangGreene <GangGreene@invalid.com> - 2011-08-03 16:23 -0400
                Re: Oversized DVD Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2011-08-03 23:31 +0200
                Re: Oversized DVD GangGreene <GangGreene@invalid.com> - 2011-08-03 17:50 -0400
                Re: Oversized DVD Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2011-08-04 00:18 +0200
                Re: Oversized DVD Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2011-08-03 15:38 -0700
                Re: Oversized DVD GangGreene <GangGreene@invalid.com> - 2011-08-03 20:34 -0400
                Re: Oversized DVD js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) - 2011-08-23 09:32 +0000
                Re: Oversized DVD notbob <notbob@notbob.invalid> - 2011-08-04 00:03 +0000
                Re: Oversized DVD js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) - 2011-08-23 09:34 +0000
                Re: Oversized DVD js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) - 2011-08-23 09:46 +0000
                Re: Oversized DVD js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) - 2011-08-23 09:55 +0000
                Re: Oversized DVD GangGreene <GangGreene@invalid.com> - 2011-08-23 16:53 -0400
                Re: Oversized DVD js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) - 2011-08-22 20:12 +0000
                Re: Oversized DVD GangGreene <GangGreene@invalid.com> - 2011-08-22 16:36 -0400
                Re: Oversized DVD js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) - 2011-08-23 09:20 +0000
                Re: Oversized DVD GangGreene <GangGreene@invalid.com> - 2011-08-23 05:34 -0400
                Re: Oversized DVD js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) - 2011-08-22 19:52 +0000
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