DVD burning with mkisofs and cdrecord?
Mike Burger
mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Tue Mar 29 23:57:49 UTC 2005
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Graham Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 22:48 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
>> On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 14:20 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
>>> The bug is that with some burners, DVD+R media is not fixated at the end
>>> of burning. Such DVDs are not readable in anything. Good news is that
>>> you can fixate them after the fact and they will become readable. Some
>>> people reported that additional invocation of "cdrecord -fix" works,
>>> some reported that it doesn't work. Fixating disk under Windows works
>>> every time (for example, in Nero go to disk info, it will show that disk
>>> is not closed and will offer you option of "closing" it, another name
>>> for fixation).
>
> Can someone give me a pointer to a description of what is happening when
> a CD/DVD is being "fixated"? Or in general for the whole process of
> "burning".
"Fixating" is the same as "finalizing"...it's closing the burning session,
so that other DVD-ROM drives can properly read it.
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