DVDRTOOLS                            http://www.arklinux.org/projects/dvdrtools
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This is dvdrtools, a fork of cdrtools[1] with the primary goal of supporting
writing to DVDs.
The original version of the DVD driver was written by Nicolae Mihalache, and
can be downloaded as a patch to cdrtools 1.11a8 at
http://www.abcpages.com/~mache/cdrecord-dvd.html.

It is presently being developed by bero@arklinux.org using a
Pioneer DVR-A03 DVD writer and a NEC SD-R 5002 writer; any other MMC
compliant hardware is likely to work.

Aside from adding DVD writing support, changes in dvdrtools are:
- Remain 100% Free Software. dvdrtools has been forked off the
  last cdrtools release without "you are not allowed to modify the
  code below" sections.
- Clean up the code and build system, drop some legacy support code
- Support writing film DVDs (convert video files to the correct format, etc.)
- Remove unnecessary code duplication, this is dvdrecord, not dvdlibc

Plans for the future include:
- Better support for writing directly to device files, without having
  to create fake SCSI bus mappings -- including autodetecting which
  access method (ATAPI vs. SCSI, ...) to use
- Clean up a lot of the code
- Make parts of the code a shared library so GUIs like k3b don't have
  to call an external app and parse its output


[1] http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html

