Re: [newbie] Idiot's Guide to DVD burning?
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 05:25, Bryan Phinney wrote: Well, just for the record, I think that K3B uses dvd+rw tools for writing rather than cdrecord. XCDRoast uses cdrecord, IIRC. Could have something to do with that. You did mention from your command line that you were using growisofs and I am pretty sure that is part of the dvd+rw tools, not cdrecord. DVD-RW can be written with dvd+rw tools or with a patched version of cdrecord. I don't have any DVD-RW media, all of mine is +RW media. Hi Bryan; Just to close on this subject. I'm now able to burn/read/view all DVDs, to include +RW and -RW, without making any changes. The only thing I can think is F.M., and possibly something in one of the cooker updates put things to rights. Thanks for the assistance you provided nevertheless. Glenn -- 16:57:52 up 1 day, 12:38, running Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586, kernel 2.6.3-4mdk Registered Linux user #324360 A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten. -- Doug Larson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Idiot's Guide to DVD burning?
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 05:25, Bryan Phinney wrote: Well, just for the record, I think that K3B uses dvd+rw tools for writing rather than cdrecord. XCDRoast uses cdrecord, IIRC. Could have something to do with that. You did mention from your command line that you were using growisofs and I am pretty sure that is part of the dvd+rw tools, not cdrecord. DVD-RW can be written with dvd+rw tools or with a patched version of cdrecord. I don't have any DVD-RW media, all of mine is +RW media. Hi Bryan; Just to close on this subject. I'm now able to burn/read/view all DVDs, to include +RW and -RW, without making any changes. The only thing I can think is F.M., and possibly something in one of the cooker updates put things to rights. Thanks for the assistance you provided nevertheless. Glenn -- 16:57:52 up 1 day, 12:38, running Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586, kernel 2.6.3-4mdk Registered Linux user #324360 A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten. -- Doug Larson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Idiot's Guide to DVD burning?
On Sunday 14 March 2004 14:49, Bryan Phinney wrote: Same as my version although I have installed the patch from devel-stable. You might want to try that. Could I bother you for a URL/source for the patch? None of my research has turned up a patch yet. Thanks in advance. Also, I don't use a home temp directory but instead specify that tmp files are created in /tmp. If you have a big enough /tmp partition/directory, you might consider using it directly. Not sure why it would make a difference but I recall getting weird errors every once in a while prior to my moving to /tmp and none even remotely recently. You were correct about this one, but changing it hasn't helped any. The temp directory that I had specified was in a subdirectory under the system /tmp partition, but it's woefully low on space, at least to hold a DVD's worth of data (3.2Gb). Changing it to another partition, with more space, hasn't helped any, though. The puzzling thing here is that the new directory is reflected in K3b's configuration file, but the old directory is reflected in the growisofs section of the K3b debug output. I'm still chasing down whether there is a second place that contains the /tmp location. -- 19:15:05 up 1 day, 7:37, running Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586, kernel 2.6.3-4mdk Registered Linux user #324360 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Idiot's Guide to DVD burning?
On Sunday 14 March 2004 14:49, Bryan Phinney wrote: Same as my version although I have installed the patch from devel-stable. You might want to try that. Also, I don't use a home temp directory but instead specify that tmp files are created in /tmp. If you have a big enough /tmp partition/directory, you might consider using it directly. Not sure why it would make a difference but I recall getting weird errors every once in a while prior to my moving to /tmp and none even remotely recently. Just to make sure, I just burned a +RW disk, it is writing as I write this 43% done with no errors. Just installed XCDroast, and found that it had absolutely no problem with the drive and DVD-RW. I've cleared the hardware and disc, so I've apparently got something misconfig'd in K3b. Light at the end of the tunnel and, for once, it's not the oncoming express to Toledo g. -- 20:50:39 up 1 day, 9:12, running Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586, kernel 2.6.3-4mdk Registered Linux user #324360 The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. -- Oscar Wilde Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Idiot's Guide to DVD burning?
On Saturday 13 March 2004 11:31 pm, Glenn wrote: I haven't had any success, however, in actually burning a DVD in K3b (though it did work running growisofs from the CLI. Using the the growisofs switches in the user parameters of K3b didn't, though.). Has anybody got a link to a good Idiot's Guide to DVD Burning? Thanks in advance, if anybody can point me in the right direction. Explain more about the errors that you are getting. I have that drive, and I also use K3b for DVD's, just +RW up to now. I don't get any errors, at least not with data dvd's. I just installed 10.0 yesterday though, prior to that I was still on 9.1. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Idiot's Guide to DVD burning?
On Sunday 14 March 2004 10:31 am, Glenn wrote: Oops, didn't notice you had your Reply To: set to yourself. Yeah, sorry myself. When I moved up to KDE 3.2, I lost all of my previous folder settings caused it copied them and obviously didn't copy the settings. My normal profile for the list has no reply to, but my default address does, I mistakenly answered with my default address instead of my list profile. Future messages will not be so burdened. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Idiot's Guide to DVD burning?
On Sunday 14 March 2004 10:18 am, Glenn wrote: I'll attach the debugging output for the failed burn (with a DVD-RW, as noted). I suspect there may be some problem somewhere in my K3b configuration, since this Plextor is detected (in the K3b setup screen) as _not_ supporting DVD+RW, but you're obviously using them. My Plextor is mis-detected as not support +RW as well, however, when burning them, it works just fine, at least so far. And it does use growisofs which is the tool for +RW. K3b Version: 0.11.6cvs KDE Version: 3.2 BRANCH = 20040204 QT Version: 3.2.3 Same as my version although I have installed the patch from devel-stable. You might want to try that. Also, I don't use a home temp directory but instead specify that tmp files are created in /tmp. If you have a big enough /tmp partition/directory, you might consider using it directly. Not sure why it would make a difference but I recall getting weird errors every once in a while prior to my moving to /tmp and none even remotely recently. Just to make sure, I just burned a +RW disk, it is writing as I write this 43% done with no errors. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Idiot's Guide to DVD burning?
On Sunday 14 March 2004 10:31 am, Glenn wrote: growisofs comand: --- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=dao -speed=2 -overburn -gui -graft-points -V K3b data project -volset -A K3B THE CD KREATOR VERSION 0.11.6cvs (C) 2003 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -P -p K3b - Version 0.11.6cvs -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-glenn/k3bjUWvmc.tmp -r -hide-list /tmp/kde-glenn/k3bwkCVib.tmp -J -hide-joliet-list /tmp/kde-glenn/k3b0lkPnc.tmp -l -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-glenn/k3bdqw6hb.tmp I know this may sound kind of dumb, but are you sure that you have at least 4.7-5.0 GB of free space for temporary files? From Mine: System --- K3b Version: 0.11.6cvs KDE Version: 3.2 BRANCH = 20040204 QT Version: 3.2.3 growisofs --- /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd: restarting DVD+RW format... /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd: Current Write Speed is 2.5x1385KBps. snipped 99.96% done, estimate finish Sun Mar 14 17:01:21 2004 99.98% done, estimate finish Sun Mar 14 17:01:21 2004 Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 3062 Total directory bytes: 10240 Path table size(bytes): 74 Max brk space used 0 1989332 extents written (3885 MB) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd: flushing cache /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd: writing lead-out growisofs comand: --- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=dao -speed=2.4 -overburn -gui -graft-points -V K3b data project -volset -A K3B THE CD KREATOR VERSION 0.11.6cvs (C) 2003 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -P -p K3b - Version 0.11.6cvs -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-bryan/k3bcYYEYb.tmp -r -hide-list /tmp/kde-bryan/k3bX65Lhc.tmp -l -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-bryan/k3boIxsqc.tmp -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Idiot's Guide to DVD burning?
On Sunday 14 March 2004 15:06, Bryan Phinney wrote: I know this may sound kind of dumb, but are you sure that you have at least 4.7-5.0 GB of free space for temporary files? Not so dumb, but I do actually have just short of 42Gb open in my home partition. I try swapping over to the system tmp directory to see how it fares. Thanks for the tips. I'll give them a go. Glenn -- 18:04:28 up 6:26, running Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586, kernel 2.6.3-4mdk Registered Linux user #324360 Scientists will study your brain to learn more about your distant cousin, Man. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
