-version | Print version information and exit. | help + man |
-verbose, -v | Increment the level of general verbosity by one. | help + man |
-Verbose, -V | Increment the verbose level in respect of SCSI command transport by one. | help + man |
-silent, -s | Do not print out a status report for failed SCSI commands. | help + man |
-setdropts | Set the driveropts specified by driveropts=option list, the speed of the drive and the dummy flag and exit. | help + man |
-checkdrive | Checks if a driver for the current drive is present and exit. | help + man |
-prcap | Print the drive capabilities for SCSI-3/mmc compliant drives as obtained from mode page 0x2A. | help + man |
-inq | Do an inquiry for the drive, print the inquiry info and exit. | help + man |
-scanbus | Scan all SCSI devices on all SCSI busses and print the inquiry strings. | help + man |
-reset | Try to reset the SCSI bus where the CD recorder is located. | help + man |
-abort | send an abort sequence to the drive (may help if hung) | help + man |
-overburn | Allow wodim to write more than the official size of a medium. | help + man |
-ignsize | ignore the known size of a medium (may cause problems) | help + man |
-useinfo | use *.inf files to overwrite audio options. | help + man |
-format | Format a CD-RW/DVD-RW/DVD+RW disc. | help + man |
-load | load the disk and exit (works only with tray loader) | help + man |
-lock | load and lock the disk and exit (works only with tray loader) | help + man |
-eject | eject the disk after doing the work | help + man |
-dummy | The CD/DVD-Recorder will go through all steps of the recording process, but the laser is turned off during this procedure. | help + man |
-msinfo | Retrieve multi session info in a form suitable for genisoimage and print it to standard output. | help + man |
-msifile path | run -msinfo and copy output to file | help |
-toc | Retrieve and print out the table of content or PMA of a CD. | help + man |
-atip | Retrieve and print out the ATIP (absolute Time in Pre-groove) info of a CD/DVD recordable or CD/DVD re-writable media. | help + man |
-multi | generate a TOC that allows multi session In this case default track type is CD-ROM XA mode 2 form 1 - 2048 bytes | help + man |
-fix | The disk will only be fixated (i.e. a TOC for a CD-Reader will be written). | help + man |
-nofix | Do not fixate the disk after writing the tracks. | help + man |
-waiti | Wait for input to become available on standard input before trying to open the SCSI driver. | help + man |
-immed | Tell wodim to set the SCSI IMMED flag in certain commands (load/eject/blank/close_track/close_session). | help + man |
-force | force to continue on some errors to allow blanking bad disks | help + man |
-tao | Set TAO (Track At Once) writing mode. | help + man |
-dao | Write disk in SAO mode. | help + man |
-sao | Set SAO (Session At Once) mode which is usually called Disk At Once mode. | help + man |
-raw | Write disk in RAW mode. | help + man |
-raw96r | Select Set RAW writing mode with 2352 byte sectors plus 96 bytes of raw P-W subchannel data resulting in a sector size of 2448 bytes. | help + man |
-raw96p | Select Set RAW writing mode with 2352 byte sectors plus 96 bytes of packed P-W subchannel data resulting in a sector size of 2448 bytes. | help + man |
-raw16 | Select Set RAW writing mode with 2352 byte sectors plus 16 bytes of P-Q subchannel data resulting in a sector size of 2368 bytes. | help + man |
-clone | Tells wodim to handle images created by readom -clone. | help + man |
-text | Write CD-Text information based on information taken from a file that contains ascii information for the text strings. | help + man |
-audio | If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in CD-DA (similar to Red Book) audio format. | help + man |
-data | If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in CD-ROM mode 1 (Yellow Book) format. | help + man |
-mode2 | If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in CD-ROM mode 2 format. | help + man |
-xa | If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in CD-ROM XA mode 2 form 1 format. | help + man |
-xa1 | If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in CD-ROM XA mode 2 form 1 format. | help + man |
-xa2 | If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in CD-ROM XA mode 2 form 2 format. | help + man |
-xamix | If this flag is present, all subsequent tracks are written in a way that allows a mix of CD-ROM XA mode 2 form 1/2 format. | help + man |
-cdi | If this flag is present, the TOC type for the disk is set to CDI. | help + man |
-isosize | Use the ISO-9660 file system size as the size of the next track. | help + man |
-preemp | If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subsequent audio tracks will indicate that the audio data has been sampled with 50/15 microsec pre-emphasis. | help + man |
-nopreemp | If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subsequent audio tracks will indicate that the audio data has been mastered with linear data - this is the default. | help + man |
-copy | If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subsequent audio tracks of the resulting CD will indicate that the audio data has permission to be copied without limit. | help + man |
-nocopy | If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subsequent audio tracks of the resulting CD will indicate that the audio data has permission to be copied only once for personal use - this is the default. | help + man |
-scms | If this flag is present, all TOC entries for subsequent audio tracks of the resulting CD will indicate that the audio data has no permission to be copied anymore. | help + man |
-pad | If the track is a data track, 15 sectors of zeroed data will be added to the end of this and each subsequent data track. | help + man |
-nopad | Do not pad the following tracks - the default. | help + man |
-shorttrack | Allow all subsequent tracks to violate the Red Book track length standard which requires a minimum track length of 4 seconds. | help + man |
-noshorttrack | Re-enforce the Red Book track length standard. | help + man |
-swab | If this flag is present, audio data is assumed to be in byte-swapped (little-endian) order. | help + man |
--devices | Look for useable devices using the system specific functions, eg. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-packet | Set Packet writing mode. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-noclose | Do not close the current track, useful only when in packet writing mode. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |