How do I write DVDs

[Mike Burger]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Margaret_Doll wrote:

>>> I write CD-R on my RedHat Enterprise system by creating the image using
>>> 
>>> 	mkisofs -R -o outputname.iso directory-to-be-copied
>>> 		cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=/dev/cdwriter:@ outputname.iso
>>> 
>>> 
>>> How do I modify those commands to write a DVD-r?
>>> Do I need other software?
>> 
>> Lookup growisofs and cdrecord-ProDVD
>
> I found that growisofs is part of dvd+rw-tools.  You need gcc and g++ on your
> system to build and install this software.

I've got it installed, via RPM, as dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8-2 on my 
system:

[mburger at burgers ~]$ which growisofs
/usr/bin/growisofs
[mburger at burgers ~]$ which growisofs | xargs rpm -qf
dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8-2

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