Burning video DVD+R

2007-08-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
Part of the problems I have been having with DVD seems to be related to using DVD+R media. While DVD+R burn without error message, they don't work in most readers. And since locally they are cheaper and burn much faster, I would like to have a way to save time and money using them. Any thought

Re: Burning video DVD+R

2007-08-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > While DVD+R burn without error message, they don't > work in most readers. You used growisofs, i assume. Afaik it does not close DVD+R even if option -dvd-compat or -dvd-video is given. Seems Andy Polyakov had some bad feedback about closed DVD+R. I don't know which, yet. There is code to

Re: Burning video DVD+R

2007-08-01 Thread Andy Polyakov
You used growisofs, i assume. Afaik it does not close DVD+R even if option -dvd-compat or -dvd-video is given. ??? -dvd-compat or -dvd-video do close the disk! Well, if used already at 1st recording. There is code that prevents you from closing the disk *if* 1st recording was not performed wit

Re: Burning video DVD+R

2007-08-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andy Polyakov: > ??? -dvd-compat or -dvd-video do close the disk! Well, if used already > at 1st recording. Oh. I misunderstood that. Thanks for clarifying. Now i have to ponder if and how i should keep people from closing appendable +-R . I tested such DVD+R and DVD-R with several compute

Re: Burning video DVD+R

2007-08-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Part of the problems I have been having with DVD seems to be related to > using DVD+R media. While DVD+R burn without error message, they don't > work in most readers. And since locally they are cheaper and burn much > faster, I would like to have a wa

Re: Burning video DVD+R

2007-08-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Part of the problems I have been having with DVD seems to be related to using DVD+R media. While DVD+R burn without error message, they don't work in most readers. And since locally they are cheaper and burn much faster, I wou

Re: Burning video DVD+R

2007-08-02 Thread Rob Bogus
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, While DVD+R burn without error message, they don't work in most readers. You used growisofs, i assume. Afaik it does not close DVD+R even if option -dvd-compat or -dvd-video is given. Seems Andy Polyakov had some bad feedback about closed DVD+R. I don't know

Re: Burning video DVD+R

2007-08-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Rob Bogus: > However, I used -dvd-compat, not -dvd-video, > if you think that has any chance of helping I'll try that. I understand -dvd-video is an option of mkisofs which growisofs does forward. It also triggers growisofs option -dvd-compat for the burner part of growisofs. So it would ma

Re: Burning video DVD+R

2007-08-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Rob Bogus: However, I used -dvd-compat, not -dvd-video, if you think that has any chance of helping I'll try that. I understand -dvd-video is an option of mkisofs which growisofs does forward. It also triggers growisofs option -dvd-compat for the burner part