Re: Many bugs in latest version

[Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky gmail com>]

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:07 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky gmail com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > 2 - every time I add a session to a dvd, brasero warns that it is about
> > to erase the disk. The warning is bogus.
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596245
> 
> What software does it use to write the session?

> 
> > 4 - My DVD DL writer destroyed already many DL disks, reporting errors
> > in very beginning.
> 
> What software does it use to write the session?
> 
> > Since every disks costs money, it is really unpleasant that breasero
> > doesn't include output of tools it uses in logs.
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596243
> 
> wodim is known for schreddering DVD DL media because it never retrieves media 
> information and thus does not know about the medium.

Well, I don't want to start a flamewar, but I prefer the libburnio
toolkit, and none of above bugs change their status when I use these.
And these libraries have wonderful maintainer too.



> 
> 
> > Any many more minor problems I didn't yet report.
> >
> > * For example sometimes it doesn't record disk label (writes CDROM
> > instead), seems to be specific to woidim backend.
> 
> I am not sure what you mean but you definitely should not use wodim/cdrkit
> as it is broken. Use the original software and make sure that you are not 
> a victim of the symlinks that provide the names of the original software but 
> point to the broken fork.

Nope, the program I really prefer is xoriso.
Your iso filesystem implementation still doesn't do _the_ thing I need.
I need to be able to fully edit disks by adding sessions, not just add
files...


> 
> > * brasero can't blank DVD+RW disks (it should at least write zeros at
> > beginning of the disk if the low level format isn't needed)
> 
> cdrecord (the original software) does this automatically.
> 
> Jörg
>