dvd+rw-tools mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, pacman, zypper installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• dvd+rw-booktype
• dvd+rw-format
• dvd+rw-mediainfo
• dvd-ram-control
• growisofs

Projektgeschichte

The project is associated with Andy Polyakov and the original DVD+RW for Linux pages at Chalmers. Public source-package records and manpage references preserve the original project URL even though the live page currently redirects to a 404. The early packaging record dates the initial dvd+rw-tools package to November 2002, with the combined version number reflecting growisofs, dvd+rw-format, and dvd+rw-booktype versions.

growisofs became the centerpiece because it coordinated optical-disc writing with ISO filesystem generation. Source and manual summaries describe it as a user-space SCSI/MMC-style recording tool originally meant to grow ISO9660 filesystems on DVD+RW media, later expanding across DVD formats and Blu-ray media.

Adoptionsgeschichte

dvd+rw-tools spread because it solved a boring hardware problem in a scriptable way. Distributions, backup recipes, DVD authoring how-tos, and GUI burners could rely on growisofs or the smaller media utilities instead of teaching every user the low-level optical drive details.

The package survived long after optical drives stopped being default laptop hardware because old media workflows, lab machines, archival scripts, and DVD-Video authoring chains still expected these commands to exist.

Wie es verwendet wird

Common commands include growisofs for burning an image or filesystem tree, dvd+rw-format for formatting or blanking rewritable media, dvd+rw-mediainfo for drive and disc status, dvd+rw-booktype for book type settings, and dvd-ram-control for DVD-RAM behavior.

In package-nerd workflows it often appears after tools such as mkisofs, genisoimage, or dvdauthor: one tool builds a filesystem or VIDEO_TS tree, and dvd+rw-tools writes the result to physical media.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

dvd+rw-tools is a fossil worth keeping sharp: it encodes the awkward hardware era when optical media, kernel device behavior, firmware quirks, and Unix pipelines all had to meet. The package is small, but many old burn scripts and HOWTOs assume growisofs is in PATH.

Zeitleiste

• 2002-11: Early spec history records the initial dvd+rw-tools packaging and versions derived from growisofs, dvd+rw-format, and dvd+rw-booktype.
• 2003: Release notes in package records show additions for DVD-R/RW support, write-speed control, overburn protection, and BSD portability work.
• 2004: Package records show ports and drive-compatibility fixes across Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, and specific DVD hardware behavior.
• 2008: Public package summaries record dvd+rw-tools 7.1 as the later stable release line.

Related projects

• Related projects and tools include mkisofs, genisoimage, cdrtools, cdrkit, dvdauthor, cdrecord or wodim, and GUI burning front ends that wrapped growisofs for everyday desktop users.

Quellen

• https://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW
• https://github.com/rbrito/pkg-dvd-rw-tools/blob/master/dvd%2Brw-tools.spec
• https://man.archlinux.org/man/dvd%2Brw-format.1.en
• https://man.archlinux.org/man/growisofs.1.en