From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)>
Subject: [OSX/SYSADMIN] Command lines for burning CD / DVD under OSX
   Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 15:50:13 -0400
Msg# 1294
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Here are some useful commands for burning DVDs/CDs from the OSX command line.

To burn a DVD (I just made one today), I don't think one could ask for clearer syntax:

        drutil burn /var/tmp/foo.iso      # Burns an ISO image to DVD

You can also open and close the CD tray from the OSX command line
with that same tool:

        drutil eject            # Eject the CD
        drutil tray close       # Close the CD tray

As nice as the Finder GUI is at burning CDs/DVDs, I prefer the command line
because it's just more predictable and easier to automate.

Also, my Finder often crashes/hangs with the spinning beachball 'o death
when trying to work with DVDs (Tiger 10.4.6, dual G5 with DVD R/W).
I don't get these problems from the command line.

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