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Re: DVD support
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 04:16:50PM +0100, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 11:15 -0600, Kenneth Pronovici a écrit :
> > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 02:09:10PM +0100, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> > > Le mercredi 25 janvier 2006 à 23:51 -0600, Kenneth Pronovici a écrit :
> > > > > Hello guys,
> > > >
> > > > Hi, Jérôme. Sorry I lost this note. I was busy around the new year,
> > > > and then this folder was accidentally marked as having no new mail in
> > > > it, so I haven't looked at it in a while.
> > > Well, no offense. I needed it really quick, so had to use another backup
> > > tool because the data I had to save was huge (actually even more than a
> > > full DVD).
> >
> > It turns out that the tool to write to a DVD is different than the tool
> > to write to a CD. So, while Cedar Backup knows how to talk to
> > 'cdrecord' and parse its output, not all of that code applies to
> > whatever tool is used to write DVDs.
> Ah well, I understand now.
> But, I imagine that having some standard Python wrapper (or binding)
> around cdrecord or whatever other tool used would be ideal, right?
> I searched about this on Google and found out that using libburn would
> probably be a good idea. It seems that pyburn is exactly what would be
> needed: http://forums.belution.com/en/python/000/001/77.shtml
> Sadly, it is not downloadable from there.
Yes, I agree, a python wrapper around some library generally sounds like
a better idea than a python wrapper around cdrecord, assuming that the
library supports as much different hardware as cdrecord does. (The last
time I checked -- quite a while ago -- this wasn't the case, so I stayed
with cdrecord.)
> I found another backup tool written in Python for backuping on DVD:
> http://www.linuxbox.com/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=python-dvd-backup
> Maybe its code could be of any use?
> It seems to be using dvd+rw-tools.
Possibly. I will make a point of taking a look at it when I have time
to work on this. It's GPL, so at least there aren't any
license-compatiblity issues.
KEN
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http://www.cedar-solutions.com/
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