k3b: the king of wasting disks

Kenny Gow kgfedora at swbell.net
Tue Dec 27 02:21:47 UTC 2005


Paul Smith wrote:
> On 12/27/05, Peter Gordon <admin at ramshacklestudios.com> 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




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