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kamagurka

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2006-02-20

Posts: 150

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Burning DVDs from console

I there any app in pacman that can easily burn files to a dvd in the console? The bashburn in aur is outdated, and anyway, I remember that setup was a bitch last time I tried it (anyone know about the newest version?). Ideally, I'm looking for k3b in ncurses. You know, it should Just Work.

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rayjgu3

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From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: Burning DVDs from console

is this what your looking for
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DVD_writing

kamagurka

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2006-02-20

Posts: 150

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Re: Burning DVDs from console

Remember how I kept saying stuff like "easily" and even threw a k3b mention in there?
Who thought it would be a good idea to burn a DVD with a command like this:

growisofs -Z /dev/cdrw -v -l -dry-run -iso-level 3 -R -J -speed=2 -joliet-long -graft-points /Magazines/=/home/citral/books/mags/

And while I might even get that, I usually burn compilations of files that are all over my file system. As far as I can see, growisofs simply writes the contents of a directory to the disk; I'd be doing a lot of hardlinking, that way.

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