[NBLUG/talk] CD/DVD question

Cal Herrmann calz at eskimo.com
Tue Dec 9 17:04:00 PST 2003


To add comments to the others:
The disks: my understanding is that DVD's have two recordable layers, perhaps 
using different lazer colors, dont know the details.
There is a lot on formats (from one point of view) in "Linux DV":
	http://kino.schirmacher.de
and some other places of the same sort.
Cal
On Friday 05 December 2003 09:38 pm, you wrote:
> As I understand it, the 'format' of both a CD ROM and a DVD is
> implicit in the writer drive itself. The difference is that more data can
> be put on a DVD disc, but the DVD disc itself is 'blank.'
>
> 	I *think* a CD disc is the same. Are they otherwise identical? Can
> I write data on a CD disc and the same data on a DVD disc using the same
> CD R/W drive?
>
> 	Is there a DVD writer drive that will work under Linux?



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