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colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

Can't burn files over 4 gb w/K3b

To burn files bigger than 4.0 GiB please use mkisofs >= 2.01.01a33 / genisoimage >= 1.1.4:
/media/stuff/movies/Movie/movie.mkv

This just happened, and I can't find mkisofs or genisoimage in pacman or AUR.

Mektub

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From: Lisbon /Portugal

Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 647

Re: Can't burn files over 4 gb w/K3b

colbert,

they belong to cdrkit.

Having said that, since I had several problems with K3b I prefer to use Graveman or Brasero.

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colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

Re: Can't burn files over 4 gb w/K3b

Thanks Mektub, I really like Graveman after just installing it! However I still get the same issue. I have cdrkit installed, but it's just not taking any files over 4gb all of a sudden.

** (graveman:12060): WARNING **: erreur lecture fichier '/media/stuff/movies/movie.mkv' err [75]

** (graveman:12060): WARNING **: Value too large for defined data type

Also, I have had a long buggy history with Brasero but just tried it and it did take the file and began the burn process (messes up near the end always, have contacted the dev many times).

Last edited by colbert (2009-06-10 04:49:32)

steve_v

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Registered: 2006-02-11

Posts: 80

Re: Can't burn files over 4 gb w/K3b

Burning files >4GB requires a pure UDF filesystem on disk, most data DVDs are an iso9660 / udf bridge.
last time i checked you had to do some trickery to get a pure UDF filesystem, I used a script like:

#!/bin/sh
DVD=/dev/sr0
cd ~/tmp
dd if=/dev/zero of=image.udf bs=64k seek=71715 count=1
sudo losetup /dev/loop/0 image.udf
sudo mkudffs --media-type=dvd /dev/loop/0
sudo mount -t udf /dev/loop/0 mnt
sudo cp $1 mnt
sudo umount mnt
sudo losetup -d /dev/loop/0
growisofs -Z ${DVD}=image.udf && rm image.udf

But that was a long time ago, not sure if k3b supports pure UDF now or not. Anyone know?

Just my 2c.

Steve.

Last edited by steve_v (2009-06-10 04:49:13)

colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

Re: Can't burn files over 4 gb w/K3b

steve_v, that is strange as I've never had to do anything like that before and I've burned some several hundred discs w/k3b thus far (majority 4.4gb files filling the disc).

I have been communicating with Anders Linden, developer of Bashburn, and he helped me with the right growisofs command:

growisofs -allow-size-limit -udf -overburn

I have burnt about 10 discs today with bashburn, all 4.x size files. However, I cannot edit the growisofs command within K3b. I go to K3b settings and User Parameters, but I can't edit the growisofs command, I can click it but it doesn't highlight it or anything. If anyone can help me with this I'd really appreciate it, thanks

warnec

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-06-22

Posts: 166

Re: Can't burn files over 4 gb w/K3b

Wel, that is easy. You just have to click the field below "Parameters" column name.

PS.: It still complains the file size is over 4GB, though.

And while using Bashburn:

                                                    
(Enter no if you want to merge a new session to                                                       
an already burnt DVD. To cancel this operation                                                        
press [ENTER] without entering anything)                                                              
                                                                                                      
(yes/no): yes                                                                                         
:-( unable to open64("<Change",O_RDONLY): No such file or directory                                   
Burning failed.                                                                                       
Hit any key to continue : ^[[C

I KeyboardInterrupted.

Last edited by warnec (2009-09-19 19:48:19)