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dvd+rw-tools-7.1p1

mastering tools for DVD+RW/+R/-R/-RW

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Description

The dvd+rw-tools package is used to master DVD media, both +RW/+R and -R[W]. The principal burning utility is called growisofs. Although it may be possible to with some operating systems to put arbitrary file systems on DVD+RW, it's probably not very practical, because it is likely desirable to access the data on an arbitrary computer. In other words, ISO9660 filesystems are most likely desired. It may also be desirable to add data now and then, but DVD+RW has no notion of multiple sessions. Growisofs provides a way to both lay down and grow an ISO9660 file system on (as well as to burn an arbitrary pre- mastered image to) all supported DVD media. It should be explicitly noted that growisofs is a front-end to mkisofs, i.e. invokes mkisofs to perform the actual ISO9660 file system layout.

Package information

Ports path
sysutils/dvd+rw-tools
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
sysutils
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, sparc64, alpha, hppa, m88k, sh

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