What is a good dvd burning component for Windows or .Net?

Question

I\'d like to add dvd burning functionality to my .Net app (running on Windows Server 2003), are there any good components available? I\'ve used the NeroCOM sdk that used to com

Answer 1

At my last job I was tasked with finding a cross platform and preferably free way to write our application specific files to cd/dvd. I quickly found that writing CD's wasn't hard on windows, but I couldn't write DVD's easily, and that only worked on windows.

I ended up writing a wrapper around cdrecord cdrecord is an open source project that builds easily with cygwin. I would create a staging directory where I added the files that needed to be written, called mkisofs on that directory to make a cd iso, and then called cdrecord to burn the image. This may not be the best solution if you have a strictly windows audience, but it was the only thing I could find that did window, Linux, and OS X.

Another option worht checking out is the StarBurn SDK, I download the trial and used it, it worked well, but in the end it wasn't free so it was too expensive for my purposes.