Tips on burning to Bluray (BD-R) media under Fedora 20

[Steven Ulrick]

Sorry.  I think my last message may have been HTML.  I sent it from
the Gmail web interface...

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Steven Ulrick <meow8282 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, Everyone
> I just installed a new Asus Bluray drive/burner and everything seems
> to work fine so far except for one thing: I can't burn to Bluray
> (BD-R) media using K3B.  K3B detects my media correctly, even tells me
> in the burn dialog that I have an "Empty BD-R  medium" in the drive.
> I am trying to burn 21.4 GiB to a disc that K3B automatically detects
> as having  a capacity of 23.3 GiB.  So, things look good so far...
> Then I do the following:
> 1. "Open the burn dialog for the current project"
> 2. Click the "Burn" button.
> 3. This soon results in this interesting message:
> Found medium: Empty BD-R medium
> Please insert an empty medium of size 21.4 GiB or larger into drive
> ASUS BC-12B1ST b (/dev/sr0)
> Load   Eject   Cancel
>
> As you probably assume, clicking "Load" just redraws the above quoted
> error message...
>
> Right now I am using mkisofs to make an image of the same 21.4 GiB of
> data that I want to test this new drive with.  We'll see what
> happens...
>
> Oh yeah, this new drive rips CD's perfectly, as well as burning to
> single layer DVD media.  I don't have any dual layer around to play
> with.
>
> Thank you for your help,
> Steven P. Ulrick