Dvd rw-tools

Dvd rw-tools is a software package for burning DVDs, Blurays and DVD-RAM. It is distributed as free software in source code under the terms of the GNU General Public License ( GPL).

The centerpiece is the growisofs program, which, however, requires a backend for creating ISO -9660 images - either mkisofs ( from cdrtools package) or genisoimage ( from cdrkit package). Internal growisofs uses the dd.

Unlike the program name suggests, the program can both DVD R ( W) and DVD- R ( W) deal.

As graphical user interfaces for the console program growisofs there are, among others, K3b, Brasero and nautilus cd-burner. Also k9copy and GnomeBaker use the dvd rw-tools.

The project was initiated in 2002 by Andy Polyakov. It has been ported to and after numerous operating systems: OpenBSD / NetBSD ( available since version 5.4), Solaris 2.x (from 5.6), FreeBSD (5.8), HP- UX 11 ( 5.14), IRIX 6.x ( 5.19), Windows (6.0 ), and finally Mac OS X ( 7.0).