Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thanks much for the help on cdrtools I got it built and installed along with dvdrwtools and probably sometime this weekend will do a proper burn of a dvd with it. On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Joerg Schilling wrote: > gt wrote: > > > > > Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable > > > > K3b uses dvd+rw-

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-21 Thread Geoff
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 05:49:44 -0400 (EDT) Jude DaShiell wrote: > What's happening over here is I type cdrecord, but wodim gets run. If I > were to nuke wodim would that clear this problem? It won't clear the problem because cdrecord is a symlink to wodim created by the cdrkit package which Arch

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
What's happening over here is I type cdrecord, but wodim gets run. If I were to nuke wodim would that clear this problem? On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Joerg Schilling wrote: > gt wrote: > > > I do have cdrtools installed, and k3b does detect cdrecord, mkisofs, > > readcd etc. > > > > But still k3b sa

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
gt wrote: > > > Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable > > > K3b uses dvd+rw-format to format DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs. > > > Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package. > > > > Do you use an old version of k3b? > > > > Do you use a modified version of k3b? > > > > an unmodified k3b prevers to wri

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread gt
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 03:50:30PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > gt wrote: > > > I do have cdrtools installed, and k3b does detect cdrecord, mkisofs, > > readcd etc. > > > > But still k3b says this on startup: > > > > Unable to find growisofs executable > > K3b uses growisofs to actually write

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/20/2012 11:38 AM, gt wrote: That's the whole discussion of the thread. I did have dvd+rw-tools > installed, but after Joerg insisted that they are not necessary, i > removed them. And it seems the k3b warning is superficial, it works fine > without dvd+rw-tools. > ah sorry for noise ...

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread gt
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:33:38AM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > > On 03/20/2012 10:30 AM, gt wrote: > > perhaps you also need dvd+rw-tools? That's the whole discussion of the thread. I did have dvd+rw-tools installed, but after Joerg insisted that they are not necessary, i removed them. And i

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
gt wrote: > I do have cdrtools installed, and k3b does detect cdrecord, mkisofs, > readcd etc. > > But still k3b says this on startup: > > Unable to find growisofs executable > K3b uses growisofs to actually write DVDs. Without growisofs you will > not be able to write DVDs. Make sure to install

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/20/2012 10:30 AM, gt wrote: perhaps you also need dvd+rw-tools?

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread gt
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 01:01:35PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > gt wrote: > > Anyway, i just removed dvd+rw-tools, and k3b whines about not finding > > growisofs in the PATH. What should i do? > > If you install cdrtools, this message should disappear. I do have cdrtools installed, and k3b d

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
gt wrote: > I know that growisofs uses mkisofs, but didn't know that the present > version is 4+ years old. The present version of mkisofs is much more recent. The last changes happened in June 2011. If you however install genisoimage, you usually have mkisofs as link to genisoimage and tha

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread gt
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:01:08PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Thomas Bächler wrote: > > > That reminds me, I was going to re-add cdrtools to the repositories, but > > I forgot, because I never write CDs or DVDs anyway (and when I do, it > > works with what I have installed right now). > > I

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Bächler wrote: > That reminds me, I was going to re-add cdrtools to the repositories, but > I forgot, because I never write CDs or DVDs anyway (and when I do, it > works with what I have installed right now). If you rarely use it and if you only use very basic functionality, you may not

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 19.03.2012 11:54, schrieb Joerg Schilling: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> Track01 on dvd's always comes up with unknown length when trying to burn a >> dvd with wodim. That's out of two different containers of dvd's too. >> These dvd's are single-sided so no danger of blue ray being used here

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
gt wrote: > Joerg, will you recommend cdrtools over growisofs for dvds? As > apparently both mkisofs and growisofs do the same thing. Not correct, growisofs needs mkisofs and (at least) if you like to write DVDs, you should use a recent mkisofs that is not installed when you installed wodim. I

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-19 Thread gt
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:54:20AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > Track01 on dvd's always comes up with unknown length when trying to burn a > > dvd with wodim. That's out of two different containers of dvd's too. > > These dvd's are single-sided so no danger of bl

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Jude DaShiell wrote: > Track01 on dvd's always comes up with unknown length when trying to burn a > dvd with wodim. That's out of two different containers of dvd's too. > These dvd's are single-sided so no danger of blue ray being used here. > Fortunately I can do the burn with another syst

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-18 Thread Vladimir Lomov
Hello, ** Jude DaShiell [2012-03-18 08:28:48 -0400]: > Track01 on dvd's always comes up with unknown length when trying to burn a > dvd with wodim. That's out of two different containers of dvd's too. > These dvd's are single-sided so no danger of blue ray being used here. > Fortunately I ca

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-18 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Track01 on dvd's always comes up with unknown length when trying to burn a > dvd with wodim.  That's out of two different containers of dvd's too. > These dvd's are single-sided so no danger of blue ray being used here. > Fortunately I can do

[arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
Track01 on dvd's always comes up with unknown length when trying to burn a dvd with wodim. That's out of two different containers of dvd's too. These dvd's are single-sided so no danger of blue ray being used here. Fortunately I can do the burn with another system. --