schily, thanks for your further information.
I'd like to try your cdrecord.
Can you give me a brief intro to downloading your code, doing the compile
and accessing it through k3b - I have never done this before.

I don't know if their motive was anything to do with DRM, but based on the
conversation so far, and my understanding, I'd say probably not.

annew, I updated k3brc as you specified, but k3b still used wodim
when set to "auto". I'm going to attempt the compile of cdrecord.

davexnet - what distro are you using?

You either get a recent cdrtools source from:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/

compile it and run "make install" as root or you get one of
the binary packages that are now available for every Linux distro.

Note that if you compile and install from source, the binaries
will be in /opt/schily/bin and an unmodified k3b checks /opt/schily/bin
for binaries.

If you like to use binary packages from a friendly user for
your distro, I recommend to ask on a newsgroup for your distro on
whether there is a need for extra tricks, as some Linux distros
try to prevent the original cdrtools to be usable from /usr/bin.
You may need to manually "rm /usr/bin/wodim" and friends and manually
create symlinks. Users from your distro should know.....

BTW: the reason why wodim writes slower than possible is that
it is based on a 6 year old version of cdrecord that does not
yet know about firmware bugs in recent drives. Drives from at least
NEC SONY OPTIARC and Pioneer need extra care to be understood
correctly.

OK - I'll see what I can find.
My distro is PCLInuxOS 2010 KDE.

@ davexnet

Perhaps you want to make your distro public 'cos it helps people helping you (in terms of deb or rpm packages and their associated problems). To do so go to your control panel and choose your distro.

Done - actually, I mentioned the distribution earlier, in the previous post.

Cheers - I'm sure you did but I still missed it

Try this fix to get rid of Wodim and K3b will work fine...

Updated install script for cdrtools
I've updated the install script I wrote for cdrtools.
It's available at http://www.ody.ca/~dwhodgins/installcdrtools To run it,
cd to a directory where you want to install the script.
Then run ... wget http://www.ody.ca/~dwhodgins/installcdrtools ...

To make my file script_file executable, the first step is to check what permission
it has. Type this command to see the permissions:
ls -l

Now change the permission to make it executable:
chmod +x script_file

Check again to see the new permissions:
ls -l

To run the file, enter this command:
./script_file

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=107290&p=247897#p247897