dvd writing support

Tanisete · Guru Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 312

Hi to all:

I was thinking in buying a new dvd writer with dl support, but i don't want to have problems (or at least not many

) with it. I thought in two writers:

- The internal 16x Lacie d2

- thw new Plextor px716a

Can anyone tell me their experiences with these tow brands in gentoo? Any big problem writing?

Thanks a lot!!!!

SubAtomic · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 11:02 am Post subject:

You could consider getting a single layer dvd burner (quite cheap) and flashing it wih dual layer enabled firmware. Lite-On, Pioneer and LG (no doubt hundreds more) have some models that can be flashed to support dual layer burning. I also heard a rumour about a sony firmware update that allows a particular sony burner to burn at 8x on 4x media. Probably doesnt help you out much, but it would be a good idea to look at dvd burners that are sold as single layer burners and flashing it with dual layer firmware.
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ruben · Guru Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 462

I have a Plextor 716A and i'm happy about it, although i have to say that i didn't really use it a lot yet. Wrote a couple of cdrs, cdrws, dvd+rs and dvd+rws. The latest cdrecord from cdrtools supports the GigaRec feature. One quite annoying thing though is described in this post: the normal cd/dvd-writing tools error out when you try to write to certain media. I had this problem when trying to write a Princo dvd+rw (with dvd+rw-tools in k3b/graveman/gnomebaker). I hope this problem will be fixed soon upstream, but i used a demo-version of NeroLinux and that worked great.