Can't Burn Double Layered DVD's..

T-u-N-i-X · 2008-03-09 16:13:54

Hey There,

I'm trying to backup things to free some space on my discs.. I've installed brasero (since brasero-svn cannot be compiled because of the upcoming GNOME 2.22 release.. - it needs gvfs support) and tried to burn the DVD.. It complains about some plugins and doesn't burn the DVD.. Any solutions for this ?

Are there any good DVD burner apps around for GNOME ?

Pudge · 2008-03-09 16:59:08

I just use nautilus-cd-burner. It's part of the gnome-extra package, or can be installed with pacman -Sy nautilus-cd-burner. Just put a CDR/DVDR in the burner and double click on the desktop icon that comes up. This brings up a CD/DVD Creator folder. Just use Copy and Paste to put files or folders into the CD/DVD Creator folder. To see how much space the files/folders take up, click on "Edit" -> "Select All" then right click on one of the selected items, then click "properties". When you have everything you want click "Write to Disk".

You can also put a CD/DVD you want to copy in the optical drive, then right click on the desktop Icon that comes up. Click "Copy Disc" to duplicate a CD/DVD.

The only thing I haven't tried at this point, is to copy .WAV files to a CD-R. I don't know if nautilus-cd-burner is smart enough to convert them to CDDA or what ever format a regular CD player uses.

I've had no problems burning to dual layer disks with nautilus-cd-burner.

Pudge

EDIT: for clarity

Last edited by Pudge (2008-03-09 17:02:39)

T-u-N-i-X · 2008-03-09 17:04:10

Pudge wrote:

I just use nautilus-cd-burner. It's part of the gnome-extra package, or can be installed with pacman -Sy nautilus-cd-burner. Just put a CDR/DVDR in the burner and double click on the desktop icon that comes up. This brings up a CD/DVD Creator folder. Just use Copy and Paste to put files or folders into the CD/DVD Creator folder. To see how much space the files/folders take up, click on "Edit" -> "Select All" then right click on one of the selected items, then click "properties". When you have everything you want click "Write to Disk".
You can also put a CD/DVD you want to copy in the optical drive, then right click on the desktop Icon that comes up. Click "Copy Disc" to duplicate a CD/DVD.
The only thing I haven't tried at this point, is to copy .WAV files to a CD-R. I don't know if nautilus-cd-burner is smart enough to convert them to CDDA or what ever format a regular CD player uses.
I've had no problems burning to dual layer disks with nautilus-cd-burner.
Pudge
EDIT: for clarity

Yeah, but the only disadvantage of it is that it duplicates the original source... What if I don't have enough space ?

Pudge · 2008-03-09 17:09:46

I don't think it duplicates disk space. When you put files/folders in the CD/DVD Creator folder, I BELIEVE it just puts a "place holder" or a symbolic file that simply points to the target files instead of actually copying the files to the CD/DVD Creator folder. To prove it one way or the other, simply check the available disk space, put about 100 Meg of files in the CD/DVD Creator folder and see if the available disk space stays about the same or if it decreases by 100 Meg.

Pudge

Edit: I just did this. I used Gnome's "System Monitor" to check how much disk space was used for each partition. Then I brought up the CD/DVD Creator window and pasted 2.9 GigaBytes of MP3s into it. It did it instantly, so it didn't actually copy the files, since 2.9 Gig would take a minute or two to copy. Plus, I did another "System Monitor" and my disk usage did not change. So this is only placing links to the files in this folder.

Last edited by Pudge (2008-03-09 17:22:22)

lloeki · 2008-03-20 11:41:20

brasero [...] complains about some plugins and doesn't burn the DVD

same here. burn button is greyed out.

but nautilus cd creator fails, because it claims the inserted medium does not have enough space. what's more on my desktop the dvd-dl appears as 'CD-ROM' (simple dvd appear as dvd). brasero reports the medium correctly as being a dvd-r dl, as does dvd+rw-mediainfo from dvd+rw-tools. I suppose nautilus uses hal and brasero uses command line tools directly.

so I did (two steps, because I wanted to check that my iso file had proper utf8 names):

$ mkisofs -l -iso-level 4 -r -J -joliet-long -o dvd.iso /home/lloeki/media/music.mp3/
$ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=dvd.iso

and it seems to work.

EDIT 1: it worked. 'closing disc' part at the end took a freaking long time, but I waited patiently. once finished, eject and reinsert, the dvd content is perfect!

EDIT 2: woohoo! it even reads correctly on a blackbook with leopard. (incl. french diacritics and japanese names)

Last edited by lloeki (2008-03-20 11:55:21)

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#1 2008-03-09 16:13:54

Can't Burn Double Layered DVD's..

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Re: Can't Burn Double Layered DVD's..

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Re: Can't Burn Double Layered DVD's..

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