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I had trouble to continue using xcdroast to burn DVD to archive system backups yesterday. With the load I have at work, I can’t afford much time to coerce xcdroast to behave. Instead, I used mkisofs and cdrecord from command line to burn DVDs. The command line solves my urgent need for a working DVD burning programs, and dual as a verification on the claim that the cdrecrod from cdrtools package is now capable of burning DVD without the extra cdrecord.prodvd hack. Below are quick steps on how to burn DVD/CD using mkisofs and cdrecord under CentOS Linux 4. The steps and commands are done successfully on an up-to-date CentOS 4.4/i386 desktop. I can’t see why the same steps wouldn’t work on a up-to-date CentOS 4.1 or Fedora Core 6, or other linux/UNIX systems, given that mkisofs and cdrecord are available and proper kernel support is there for the DVD burners.

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I has been using xcdroast to burn system backups to DVD for archiving purpose. The support of DVD burning is provided by ProDVD and the latter required its free key renewed every so often. Yesterday I was told the key expired again. As usually, I retrieved the README file off Helmut Jarausch, the author’s site. Surprisingly, no more new keys found in the file. The DVD support has been contributed to the open source project under CDDL since last May (I really needs to read Slashdot or get out more often). After some mucking, I couldn’t use xcdroast to burn DVD under CentOS 4. Read the rest of this entry »