Anyone got brasero cd/dvd burner to work?

davidlondonuk · 2009-11-15 18:56:36

Hi,

I'm using nero 3.5 and it works great, but I would like a GPL package, has anyone got brasero to work at all?

If so, tell me how you did it. I have an external usb dvd writer and I don't want to install k3b.

Thanks for any help.

deej · 2009-11-15 19:07:00

What's the problem you are having with it ?
'brasero -g' from the command line will produce debug output.

Deej

davidlondonuk · 2009-11-15 20:12:50

From AUR brasero-lite has a compile errror in brasero_player_bacon.c which you can fix, but it still will not work-burn a file ok-multisession hangs on 'finding size', erase does not work etc. Brasero-svn cannot even find the usb dvd writer.

0.91 nearly works.

At the moment the software is a joke-if I could fix it I would. Any ideas?

deej · 2009-11-15 21:13:09

Install gnomebaker

A few people - myself included - have had troubles with brasero recently.
Gnomebaker is a good choice if k3b is too heavy.

Deej

davidlondonuk · 2009-11-15 22:30:22

Gnomebaker nearly worked, it formats ok and burns the first session, then it wants mount points for the DVD/CD, device, is there a way to make it use hal?

If I put a dvd into the burner it will mounted by hal on /media/whatever, I have no mount points in fstab

deej · 2009-11-16 06:15:35

Can you not just uncomment the cd/dvd line in fstab ?
It would look something like this:

/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

Deej

davidlondonuk · 2009-11-16 08:20:30

The problem is hal will mount the dvd as /media/volume_name, so if the volume name is nero1 then hal will mount it at /media/nero1.

If every dvd has the same volume name then an fstab line might work. I just can't figure out why gnomebaker needs to use mount points, xfburn the xfce4 lightweight app appears to be some sort of fork of gnomebaker and does not use mount points-but cannot do multisession.

So there's a tip when they update xfburn to multisession, it will be the best option.

JGC · 2009-11-16 08:38:57

I don't see reason anymore for this brasero-lite package now that totem-plparser no longer pulls in evolution-data-server, but remember that the AUR lite version uses a development snapshot instead of a stable version.

davidlondonuk · 2009-11-16 10:03:23

Good point JGC, but Brasero will not work no matter what version I have tried from 0.91 to 2.29. Brasero-lite has a compile error, and other versions cannot see the usb burner.

V 0.91 was the nearest to working-but when you try to erase it says the device is busy, if you try to burn a file it gets stuck on 'getting size'. Nerolinux 3.5 burns with no problems-so there must be something wrong with Brasero.

If gnomebaker got rid of the mount points requirement it would work.

Nezmer · 2009-11-16 10:50:37

Can you try cdrtools(from AUR) as a backend ?

davidlondonuk · 2009-11-16 11:47:43

crtools or cdrkit it makes no difference-brasero is broken. It seems to have a real problem with hal and disk access.

There seem to be problems with power management and getting control of the burner device. I'm no programmer, i'd really like to fix it-i did email an error log to one of the brasero developers but never received a reply.

What I can't understand is why the gnomebaker developers introduced mount points as requirement to burn to a device (it will format no problem without a mount point) -when all modern linux distros use hal and have done for a while.

kgas · 2009-11-16 12:24:28

It seems that brasero got broken, gnomebaker / graveman(front end for cdrtools/cdrkit) / bashburn(bash script you need proper configuration) are working.

With brasero the problem faced is , it did not detect the CD/DVD in the drive.

davidlondonuk · 2009-11-16 21:54:21

JGC do you think there will be a working version in 2.30 ie one that can handle external usb burners?

mandog · 2009-11-17 22:31:49

I don't have any problems with brasero, Gnome baker, etc use the same dependencies as far as I know.
I think you have a permissions problem if they don't burn, I also use nero but prefer brasero every time,

Last edited by mandog (2009-11-17 22:35:09)

hit · 2010-06-23 08:58:32

/etc/fstab

/dev/sr0    /media/dvd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

and problem solved (same with cd/dvd automount).

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