k3b: the king of wasting disks

[Paul Smith]

Dear All

With

$ k3b -v
Qt: 3.3.5
KDE: 3.5.0-2.2.fc4.kde
K3b: 0.12.10
$

growisofs does not execute cleanly for whatever video DVD project I
make to be recorded on a DVD+R disk. (Six new disks wasted by k3b.)

Is there a good alternative to k3b?

Regards,

Paul

[Paul Smith]

On 12/27/05, Paul Smith  wrote:
> Dear All
>
> With
>
> $ k3b -v
> Qt: 3.3.5
> KDE: 3.5.0-2.2.fc4.kde
> K3b: 0.12.10
> $
>
> growisofs does not execute cleanly for whatever video DVD project I
> make to be recorded on a DVD+R disk. (Six new disks wasted by k3b.)
>
> Is there a good alternative to k3b?

I forgot to say that if I use a DVD+RW disk instead of a DVD+R one,
then there is no problem. What a nasty bug of k3b!

Paul

[Peter Gordon]

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 00:15 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> growisofs does not execute cleanly for whatever video DVD project I
> make to be recorded on a DVD+R disk. (Six new disks wasted by k3b.)

I don't know if it helps, but I recently purchased a DVD burner for
myself and (for some weird reason), it always requires that I run
`cdrecord -fix` after each disc I burn for the disc to be valid,
but only for DVDs, not for CD-R/RWs (though I've only tried burning
a single audio CD so far).

Hope that helps.

[Paul Smith]

On 12/27/05, Peter Gordon  wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 00:15 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> > growisofs does not execute cleanly for whatever video DVD project I
> > make to be recorded on a DVD+R disk. (Six new disks wasted by k3b.)
>
> I don't know if it helps, but I recently purchased a DVD burner for
> myself and (for some weird reason), it always requires that I run
> `cdrecord -fix` after each disc I burn for the disc to be valid,
> but only for DVDs, not for CD-R/RWs (though I've only tried burning
> a single audio CD so far).

Thanks, Peter, but before I updated k3b, k3b worked fine. It seems to
be a bug of the last version of k3b (KDE Red Hat).

Paul

[Joel Gomberg]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On 12/27/05, Peter Gordon  wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 00:15 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> > > growisofs does not execute cleanly for whatever video DVD project I
> > > make to be recorded on a DVD+R disk. (Six new disks wasted by k3b.)

I had the same problem, but only created one coaster before installing
the latest rpm from the k3b website.  See the thread "k3b broken after
latest FC4 update."

--
Joel

[Paul Smith]

On 12/27/05, Joel Gomberg  wrote:
> > > > growisofs does not execute cleanly for whatever video DVD project I
> > > > make to be recorded on a DVD+R disk. (Six new disks wasted by k3b.)
>
> I had the same problem, but only created one coaster before installing
> the latest rpm from the k3b website.  See the thread "k3b broken after
> latest FC4 update."

Thanks, Joel. It seems that the problem may be related with the fact
that the command

growisofs -Z /dev/hdd ...

is issued instead of

growisofs -Z /dev/dvd ...

Paul

[Kenny Gow]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On 12/27/05, Peter Gordon  wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 00:15 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> > > growisofs does not execute cleanly for whatever video DVD project I
> > > make to be recorded on a DVD+R disk. (Six new disks wasted by k3b.)
> >
> > I don't know if it helps, but I recently purchased a DVD burner for
> > myself and (for some weird reason), it always requires that I run
> > `cdrecord -fix` after each disc I burn for the disc to be valid,
> > but only for DVDs, not for CD-R/RWs (though I've only tried burning
> > a single audio CD so far).

I've never tried the Video DVD authoring feature of k3b. I always
make a Video DVD ISO file with mkisofs, then burn the DVD iso image
with k3b.

It's pretty simple to use mkisofs after you've set up your DVD
directory with the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS directories.

I use a command like this:

mkisofs -o dvd.iso -V "Movie Name" -dvd-video -v /path/to/DVD

Also, I found a tip about setting the -dvd-compat flag with growisofs
in k3b on this web page:

http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Burning_Video_DVDs_in_Linux.html

--Kenny

[Paul Smith]

On 12/27/05, Kenny Gow  wrote:
> > > > growisofs does not execute cleanly for whatever video DVD project I
> > > > make to be recorded on a DVD+R disk. (Six new disks wasted by k3b.)
> > >
> > > I don't know if it helps, but I recently purchased a DVD burner for
> > > myself and (for some weird reason), it always requires that I run
> > > `cdrecord -fix` after each disc I burn for the disc to be valid,
> > > but only for DVDs, not for CD-R/RWs (though I've only tried burning
> > > a single audio CD so far).
>
> I've never tried the Video DVD authoring feature of k3b. I always
> make a Video DVD ISO file with mkisofs, then burn the DVD iso image
> with k3b.
>
> It's pretty simple to use mkisofs after you've set up your DVD
> directory with the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS directories.
>
> I use a command like this:
>
> mkisofs -o dvd.iso -V "Movie Name" -dvd-video -v /path/to/DVD
>
> Also, I found a tip about setting the -dvd-compat flag with growisofs
> in k3b on this web page:
>
> http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Burning_Video_DVDs_in_Linux.html

Your approach, Kenny, is quite effective and simple, and inspired the
following alternative method:

growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video
/path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts

Paul

[Kenny Gow]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On 12/27/05, Kenny Gow  wrote:
> > > > > growisofs does not execute cleanly for whatever video DVD project I
> > > > > make to be recorded on a DVD+R disk. (Six new disks wasted by k3b.)
> > > >
> > > > I don't know if it helps, but I recently purchased a DVD burner for
> > > > myself and (for some weird reason), it always requires that I run
> > > > `cdrecord -fix` after each disc I burn for the disc to be valid,
> > > > but only for DVDs, not for CD-R/RWs (though I've only tried burning
> > > > a single audio CD so far).
> >
> > I've never tried the Video DVD authoring feature of k3b. I always
> > make a Video DVD ISO file with mkisofs, then burn the DVD iso image
> > with k3b.
> >
> > It's pretty simple to use mkisofs after you've set up your DVD
> > directory with the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS directories.
> >
> > I use a command like this:
> >
> > mkisofs -o dvd.iso -V "Movie Name" -dvd-video -v /path/to/DVD
> >
> > Also, I found a tip about setting the -dvd-compat flag with growisofs
> > in k3b on this web page:
> >
> > http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Burning_Video_DVDs_in_Linux.html
>
> Your approach, Kenny, is quite effective and simple, and inspired the
> following alternative method:
>
> growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video
> /path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts

Cool. I hadn't looked closely enough at the growisofs man page
to see that you could pass mkisofs options.

In any event, I like to create the DVD images so I can test them
with xine, usually to see if my custom menus work, etc.

xine can play a DVD iso image or by full path to
/path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts

e.g.,

xine dvd:/full/path/to/dvd.iso

or

xine dvd:/path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts

and even

xine dvd:/path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts/VIDEO_TS

works too!

[Paul Smith]

On 12/27/05, Kenny Gow  wrote:
> > Your approach, Kenny, is quite effective and simple, and inspired the
> > following alternative method:
> >
> > growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video
> > /path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts
>
> Cool. I hadn't looked closely enough at the growisofs man page
> to see that you could pass mkisofs options.
>
> In any event, I like to create the DVD images so I can test them
> with xine, usually to see if my custom menus work, etc.
>
> xine can play a DVD iso image or by full path to
> /path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts
>
> e.g.,
>
> xine dvd:/full/path/to/dvd.iso
>
> or
>
> xine dvd:/path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts
>
> and even
>
> xine dvd:/path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts/VIDEO_TS
>
> works too!

Thanks again, Kenny. That is a piece of very useful information.

Paul

[Paul Howarth]

Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 00:15 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> > growisofs does not execute cleanly for whatever video DVD project I
> > make to be recorded on a DVD+R disk. (Six new disks wasted by k3b.)
>
> I don't know if it helps, but I recently purchased a DVD burner for
> myself and (for some weird reason), it always requires that I run
> `cdrecord -fix` after each disc I burn for the disc to be valid,
> but only for DVDs, not for CD-R/RWs (though I've only tried burning
> a single audio CD so far).

I've found this to be the case with DVD+R media but DVD-R media seems to 
work fine without the additional fixation step.

Paul.