In DVD burning section:

- Add a line on how to enable DMA access needed for the ATAPI burner
- Various rewordings and additions to improve the text
- Enhance the multisessions part
- Add credits to Andy Polyakov (growisofs author) who helped me a lot,
  thanks to you Andy!
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<contrib>Contributed by </contrib>
</author>
</authorgroup>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Andy</firstname>
<surname>Polyakov</surname>
<contrib>With inputs from </contrib>
</author>
</authorgroup>
<!-- Feb 2004 -->
</sect1info>
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<note>
<para>A difference must be done between the physical media and
the application. For example a DVD-Video is a specific
file system that can be written on any recordable DVD
file layout that can be written on any recordable DVD
physical media: DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW etc. Before choosing
the type of media, you just must be sure the burner and the
DVD-Video player (a standalone player or a DVD-ROM drive on
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devices, therefore the <link linkend="atapicam">ATAPI/CAM
support</link> must be added to your kernel.</para>
<para>You also have to enable DMA access for ATAPI devices, this
can be done in adding the following line to the
<filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> file:</para>
<programlisting>hw.ata.atapi_dma="1"</programlisting>
<para>Before attempting to use the
<application>dvd+rw-tools</application> you should consult the
<ulink
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DVD device, <replaceable>/dev/cd0</replaceable>, must be
changed according to your configuration. The
<option>-dvd-compat</option> parameter will close the disk,
the recording will be unappendable. This should provide more
the recording will be unappendable. In return this should provide better
media compatibility with DVD-ROM drives.</para>
<para>It is also possible to burn a pre-mastered image, for
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<sect2>
<title>Burning a DVD-Video</title>
<para>A DVD-Video is a specific file system based on ISO 9660
<para>A DVD-Video is a specific file layout based on ISO 9660
and the micro-UDF (M-UDF) specifications. The DVD-Video also
presents a specific file structure hierarchy, it is the reason
presents a specific data structure hierarchy, it is the reason
why you need a particular program such as <filename
role="package">sysutils/dvdauthor</filename> to author the
DVD.</para>
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<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>growisofs -Z <replaceable>/dev/cd0</replaceable> -dvd-video <replaceable>/path/to/video</replaceable></userinput></screen>
<para>The <option>-dvd-video</option> option will tell
&man.mkisofs.8; to create a DVD-Video file system
layout.</para>
<para>The <option>-dvd-video</option> option will be passed down to
&man.mkisofs.8; and will instruct it to create a DVD-Video file system
layout. Beside this, the <option>-dvd-video</option> option
implies <option>-dvd-compat</option> &man.growisofs.1;
option.</para>
</sect2>
<indexterm>
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<title>Using a DVD+RW</title>
<para>Unlike CD-RW, a virgin DVD+RW needs to be formatted before
first use. To format the DVD+RW, use the following:</para>
first use. The &man.growisofs.1; program will take care of it
automatically whenever appropriate, which is the
<emphasis>recommended</emphasis> way. However you can use the
<command>dvd+rw-format</command> command to format the
DVD+RW:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dvd+rw-format <replaceable>/dev/cd0</replaceable></userinput></screen>
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initial session should be used during next writes.</para>
<note>
<para>You must not use the <option>-dvd-compat</option> option
during the initial session if you want to be able to append
any data, or you will have to rewrite a new initial
session.</para>
<para>You may want to use the <option>-dvd-compat</option>
option if you want better media compatibility with DVD-ROM
drives. In the DVD+RW case, this will not prevent you from
adding data.</para>
</note>
<para>If for any reason you really want to blank the media, do
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will add a new session to the disc:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>growisofs -M <replaceable>/dev/cd0</replaceable> -J -R <replaceable>/path/to/nextdata</replaceable></userinput></screen>
<para>Using this command with a DVD+RW or a DVD-RW in restricted
overwrite mode, will append data in merging the new session to
the existing one. The result will be a single-session disc.
This is the way used to add data after an initial write on these
medias.</para>
<note>
<para>Some space on the media is used between each session for
end and start of sessions. Therefore, one should add
sessions with large amount of data to optimize media space.
The number of sessions is limited to 154 for a DVD+R and
about 2000 for a DVD-R.</para>
</note>
</sect2>
<sect2>
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web site</ulink> and in the <ulink
url="http://lists.debian.org/cdwrite/">cdwrite mailing
list</ulink> archives.</para>
<note>
<para>The <command>dvd+rw-mediainfo</command> output of the
resulting recording or the media with issues is mandatory
for any problem report. Without this output, it will be
quite impossible to help you.</para>
</note>
</sect2>
</sect1>