Recording mpg's

tm> I'd like to start doing something along these
tm> lines, but I need to have supported hardware
tm> first. any idea which brands of cd-rw drive are
tm> supported in linux?

As long as it's not a USB device, then most any one
you're likely to buy, according to the CD-Writing-HOWTO

A quote from the HOWTO says:

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1.5. Supported CD-writers

USB CD-writers are currently not supported at all. Apart from that you
can safely assume that most newer IDE/ATAPI- and SCSI-writers work
under Linux. Newer drives are mostly MMC-compliant and are therefore
supported. If the SCSI-version of a particular writer works, the
IDE/ATAPI-version will most likely work and vice versa. However, some
people want to get a warm and fuzzy feeling by reading the exact model
of their writer in some sort of compatibility list. That is the
reason why I didn't throw the following list out of the HOWTO. Here
is a comprehensive summary of drives reported to work with cdrecord:

  Acer:           CDRW 4432A, CDRW 6206A, CD-R/RW 6X4X32, 8432A
  BTC:            BCE 621E (IDE)
  Compro:         CW-7502, CW-7502B
  Creative:       MK 4211, RW 4224E,
  Delta:          OME-W 141
  Dysan:          CRW-1622
  Elite:          Elite b444.41
  Goldstar:       CED-8041B
  Grundig:        CDR 100 IPW
  Guillemot:      Maxi CD-R 4X/8X
  HP:             SureStore 4020i, SureStore 6020i,
                  C4324, C4325
                  CD-writer+ 7100, 7200i, 7500e, 8100i, 8110i, 8200i Plus,
                             8250i, 9100i, 9110i, 9200e, 9210, 9300i, 9310i
  Hi-Val:         CDD 2242, CDD-3610,
  Iomega:         ZIPCD 4x650
  JVC:            XR-W 2001, XR-W 2010, XR-W 2040, XR-W 2042, XR-RW 2224,
                  YR 2626
  Kiss:           CDRW (no model given)
  Kodak:          PCD 200, PCD 225, PCD 260, PCD 600
  Matsushita:     matsushita is the japanese name for panasonic, please see there
  Memorex:        CRW-620, CDR-622, CRW-1622, CRW-2224, CDRW-4420
  Microboards:    PlayWrite 2000, PlayWrite 4000 RW, PlayWrite 4001 RW
  MicroNet:       MasterCD Plus 4x4, MasterCD Plus 4x6
  Mitsubishi:     CDRW-226
  Mitsumi:        CR-2401-TS, CR-2600 TE,  CR-2801 TE,
                  CR-4801 TE, CR-4802 TE,  CR-4804 TE
  Nomai:          680.RW
  Olympus:        CDS 615E, CDS 620E
  Optima:         DisKovery 650 CD-R
  OTI:            CDRW 965, CDRW 975 (Socrates 1.0)
  Panasonic:      CW-7285, CW-7502, CW-7503, CW-7582
  Philips:        CDD-521/10, CDD-522,
                  CDD-2000, CDD-2600, CDD-3600, CDD-3610, CDD 4201
                  PCA 267cr, PCA 460 RW, PCRW 404,
                  Omniwriter 26, Omniwriter 26A,
                  CDRW800
  Pinnacle:       RCD-100, RCD-1000, RCD-5020, RCD-5040
  Pioneer:        DW-S114X
  Plasmon:        CDR 480, CDR 4220, RF-4100, RF-4102, CDR 4400
  Plextor:        CDR PX-24 CS, PX-412 C, PX-R412 C
                  PX-R 810Ti, PX-R 820T, PX-W 4220Ti, PX-W 8220T, PX-W 8432T
                  Plexwriter RW 4/2/20
  Procom:         PCDR 4
  REC:            820s
  Ricoh:          RO-1420C+, MP 1420C, MP 6200S, MP 6201S, MP 7040A, MP-7060A
  Samsung:        SW-204
  Sanyo:          CRD-R24S
  Smart and
  Friendly:       CD-RW 226, CD-R 1002, CD-R 1002/PRO, CD-R 1004,
                  CD-R 2004, CD-R 2006 PLUS, CD-R 2006 PRO, CD-RW 2224,
                  CD-R 4000, CD-R 4006, CD-R 4012, CD-RW 4424A
                  CD-R 8020, CD-R 8220
  Sony:           CDRX 100E, CDRX 120E, CDRX 140S-RP,
                  CDU 920S, CDU 924, CDU 926S, CDU 928E, CDU 948S
  Taiyo Yuden:    EW-50
  TEAC:           CD-R50S, CD-R55S, CDR-55S, CDR-55K,
                  CDR-56S-400, CD-R56S-600, R56S-614
  Traxdata:       CRW 2260,
                  CDR 4120, CDR 4120 Pro, CDRW 4260, CDRW 4424, CDR 4800
  Turtle Beach:   2040R
  Waitec:         wt 2036, wt 2444ei
  WPI (Wearnes):  CDRW-622, CDR-632P
  Yamaha:         CDR-100, CDR 102, CDR-200, CDR-200t, CDR-200tx
                  CDR-400, CDR-400c, CDR-400t, CDR-400tx, CDR-400Atx
                  CDW-2216E, CRW-2260, CRW-2260t,
                  CRW-4250tx, CRW-4260t, CRW-4260tx, CRW-4261, CRW-4416S,
                  CRW-6416S, CRW-8424E

The detailed list of models which have been reported to work or not to
work under various Unix-like operating systems is available online
from <http://www.guug.de:8080/cgi-bin/winni/lsc-orig.pl>.


If your hardware isn't supported you can still use Linux to create an
image of the CD. You may wish to do so because most burning software
for DOS does not deal with RockRidge-extensions (Unix-like filesystems
on CD-ROM). In a second step, you can use DOS or Macintosh software to
write the image to the CD-R.
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BTW, I have a Plextor Plexwriter (PX-W8432/SW).
Plextors are supposed to be among the best. Works fine
for me.

--
Lynn David Newton
Phoenix, AZ