Other GNU tips

The power of GNU comes from the command line. It gives you ultimate control, understanding, and mastery over your computer.

Burning CDs and DVDs is quite simple.

To burn some files to a blank DVD, making the DVD multisession and appendable, with the common ISO9660 volume with Joliet and Rock-Ridge extensions, assuming let's say you have some avi movies in the current directory:

To append more avi movies from the current directory to the same DVD:

Make sure to note the difference: in the first case the option is `-Z', in the second it's `-M'.

Make also sure to use the same options for both initial burning and when appending data.

To finalize the multi-session DVD maintaining maximum compatibility:

To burn an ISO-image to a blank DVD:

To burn an ISO-image to a blank CD:

To identify the dev=... address for the above step:

$ wodim —scanbus

To burn arbitrary data to a blank CD:

To burn it in one step, without creating a temporary ISO-image:

To burn wav files to create an audio CD:

$ wodim -v dev=0,0,1 -audio -pad -dao .wav

To burn mp3 files to create an audio CD:

To burn ogg files to create an audio CD:


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