The state of blu-ray burning in linux is terrible

[Bill Davidsen]

Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com
> <mailto:horsley1953 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 07:50:38 -0500
>     Richard Shaw wrote:
>
>      > Still ran out of "writable" space on the disc at about 97.7% complete so I
>      > guess it needs to be a little smaller. If anyone is wondering I'm getting
>      > the "count" from:
>
>     Blu-rays are exceedingly funky. There is total space, then there is "formatted
>     space", where there is space reserved for the hardware to try writing
>     a new copy of a sector that failed. A lot of writer software turns on
>     the formatted mode by default. I went through a lot of this getting my
>     isopack software to write to blu-ray, and wrote up some of it here:
>
>     http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/software/isopack/isopack.html
>
>     Of course I also had a batch of media that would always fail around
>     97, 98%. The new media I got is working fine.
>
>
> Well I installed the "real" cdrtools cdrecord and used dconf to change the
> plugin priority of cdrecord in brasero but it was still a no go.
>
> Ended up using cdrecord directly and it successfully burned my UDF image that
> growisofs failed on. YAY!
>
> I've also got an idea that MIGHT get cdrtools into Fedora but I'm not going to
> hold my breath. As a last ditch effort if that doesn't work I'm going to go
> ahead and see if I can get it into RPM nonfree. I've been doing a TON of reading
> on the subject I understand the license (and personality) issues but at the end
> of the day cdrkit is crap and cdrtools works.
>
Actually my big complaint is that Fedora took the name(s) of programs which have 
been continuously maintained for about 20 years (I first used it when a CD 
burner was a SCSI device and the fast one did 2X). But his software works! I 
really wish he had trademarked the names of the programs, I think offering a 
knock-off under the same name is like one of the $50 Rolex watches. Fedora 
prides themselves on having only open source software, but the ethics of 
including an ersatz hack under the original, still maintained, name is ethically 
murky. They could have modified every package to call wooden instead.

So please, if you can get it into RPMfusion or similar, that would be great.It 
would give us a more functional alternative.

Note that I'm surprised that growisofs didn't work to burn the data once you put 
it in an image file, though. You might join the burning mailing list and discuss 
with the authors and maintainers. On occasion my problems have been user error, 
the documentation and examples of some features are NOT up the quality of the code.


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