I think it would be nice to have this in portage. http://crashrecovery.org/oss-dvd.html Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.6.3-rc1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.3-rc1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.5-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/new/tmp/" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/root/ebuilds/overlay-freedesktop" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X alsa apm avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dvd dvdr encode foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype x86 xml2 xv zlib"
I'll look into it and find out, if it works well with dvd-recorders and other DVD+R(W)-patches.
I decided to remove all DVD patches for cdrtools, as there are other utilities for dvd-recording (like cdrecord-prodvd or dvd+rw-tools). So I will close this bug as WONTFIX.