DVD-RW works!!!

[xingmu]

I would also like to celebrate how great Ubuntu is with DVD burning.  I
just bought a Lacie External USB DVD drive today.  It was even more
simple than Windows "Plug'n Play".  I literally could plug it in and
start burning.  No "Installing new hardware" ..."Are you sure you want
to install these unverified drivers?" etc.  



Last time I tried to burn a DVD (2 years ago) on a Windows computer, I
got a huge headache.  I had hundreds of mp3's with Chinese filenames
(Unicode) but I couldn't find any burning software that supported
Unicode filenames and DVD burning at the time.  And Windows
'officially' did not support burning DVDs natively...funny thing was
that I realized that Windows could burn DVDs through the native CD
burning tools but only 700MBs at a time.  So I burned the files onto
the DVD in three sessions.  The resulting DVD was readable by
Windows...but nothing else. Other computers could only see the first
session. Even the filenames ended up getting encoded in some strange
charset/codepage and showed up as qusetion marks in Linux.  What a
terrible mess.



This time with Linux, I put in a blank CD...got a friendly message "Do
you want to burn a DVD?"....drag'n'dropped my files over (including
Chinese filenames!)...and clicked "Write".  It worked perfectly!



Yes, it's so nice to see Linux outdo Windows!


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xingmu