cdrtools - a tale of two licenses

Posted Aug 14, 2006 20:25 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

growisofs -Z /dev/dvd somethingthing.iso

Or you can pipe into it to burn data directly to the cdrom after a iso format conversion.

My favorite of course is splitpipe and I've mentioned it in a couple different places.

Splitpipe is a handy little program that is similar to split, but instead of just spliting files it performs a action on every segment it produces after it produces it.
http://ds9a.nl/splitpipe/

A slightly modified example of what you can do:
tar c /home | splitpipe -s dvd -o 'growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/stdin'

So then it will just feed it data until it needs a new dvd. It pauses, you insert a new dvd, and then hit enter. You just feed it dvds until it's finished. Then to do the restore there is a 'joinpipe' command.

Joerg is ok.

I mean he is a pompus jerk sometimes. He is a solaris lover to absurd lengths... If you disagree with him he will simply say something like:
"Oh, this is how SOLARIS does it. How you do it is broken"

That sort of thing.

The only thing that gives him validity is there have been nearly a dozen forks of cdrecord and related items away from him... AND ALL OF THEM FAILED.

All of them. So obviously he has some good points on how and why he does what he does.

The only thing that pisses me off is that he is trying to use cdrecord and related open source items as a reason for selling his propriatory ProDVD application. So he has delibrately made DVD recording difficult in Linux in order to sell his app.