[svlug] dvd recording under linux

[Gordon Vrololjak]

I think my problem lies with growisofs from dvd+rw-tools.  Unfortunately,
there isn't a forum or a faq from the developers website.

Running growisofs from command line gives the following error:
[root at imod wilfred]# growisofs -Z /dev/cdrom1 -R -J cs162
:-( /dev/cdrom1: media is not recognized as recordable DVD: 0

Tried it as user/root/with different dvd media - to no avail.
Gordon

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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Akkana Peck wrote:

> Gordon Vrololjak writes:
> > k3b requires cdrecord, and dvd+rw-tools.  Snippet from their website
> [ ... ]
> > Anyone know of a tool that will work with linux?
>
> What's the problem with getting cdrecord and dvd+rw-tools?
>
> I've been using k3b to write DVDs, with an Emprex recorder.
> I'm on Debian unstable, and I have the following versions:
>
> ii  dvd+rw-tools   5.17.4.8.6-1   DVD+-RW/R tools
> ii  dvdrtools      0.1.5-2        DVD writing program.
> ii  k3b            0.10.3-5       A sophisticated KDE cd burning application
> ii  cdrecord       2.0+a25-1      command line CD writing tool
>
> I know I've burned under 2.4.23 with ide-scsi, but I think I've also
> burned under 2.6.1 with straight IDE (I know I've written CDRs that
> way, just can't remember about DVDs).
>
> I do have to burn as root; I haven't figured out the right permissions
> to change to burn as a regular user (I suid'd a couple of programs but
> haven't found the right one, and following k3b's advice doesn't work).
>
> Unfortunately, I haven't had much luck getting other machines to read
> the DVDs I burn.  I have the best success with DVD-R (contrary to
> everything I found on the web), but even so, only about half of
> those I burn are readable on other drives.  It doesn't vary by
> model: we have two Toshiba drives of the exact same model, and often
> one can read the Emprex-burned DVDs and the other can't, but other
> times it's both or neither.  DVD+R's are almost never readable on
> other drives (but I can always read them back correctly on the drive
> that burned them).  This convinced me that even if I do some backups
> to DVD, for long-term storage I'd better always make CD backups of
> anything important; a CD-R is readable anywhere.
>
> Do the rest of you have better luck with recorded DVD portability?
> Maybe it's the cheap Emprex drive.
>
> 	...Akkana
>
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