dvd burning pains

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sobers_2002 · Post by **sobers_2002** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 9:12 pm

hi all

i bought a new set of dvd-r's of princo(write once). Earlier i had burned some dvd+r's of moser baer w/o problems. Now what happens is that k3b says there is some problem with the dvd and exits. I tried to burn in win, but there it stays at 1% and just keeps on burning. I had to hard stop it by cancelling the burning. Dvd writer is Ts-h542 samsun-toshiba. What could be the reason??? could it be 'cauz of poor dvd's ?? or is there something in burning dvd-r's as compared to dvd+r's???

i am really feeling fucked up
plz haalp

thnx
Saurabh

EDIT:- things made clearer, hopefully

yaneurabeya · Post by **yaneurabeya** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:21 pm

Wha~?!?!

Errors messages might help and please revise your English (no offense, but it was confusing).

sobers_2002 · Post by **sobers_2002** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:15 am

there are no error messages other thn the one in k3b which says that there is some problem with dvd

augury · Post by **augury** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:55 am

emerge -O app-cdr/cdrecord-prodvd app-cdr/cdrtools app-cdr/cdrdao

check /etc/cdrecord.conf for confilcts and do a k3bsetup. i set burn group to root.

yaneurabeya · Post by **yaneurabeya** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:48 am

augury wrote:emerge -O app-cdr/cdrecord-prodvd app-cdr/cdrtools app-cdr/cdrdao

check /etc/cdrecord.conf for confilcts and do a k3bsetup. i set burn group to root.

Running k3bsetup to change the cdrecord programs to SUID root will result in errors in later kernel versions than 2.6.7 (maybe 2.6.8?). Note requester's sig.

Once again, please type in more clearly English because I can't decypher what you are trying to say...

augury · Post by **augury** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:05 am

well just because I do it doesnt mean he should.

yaneurabeya · Post by **yaneurabeya** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:24 am

? I should have clarified the second sentence because it was directed towards the requester. Sorry, but I'm just annoyed with some things in life right now.

augury · Post by **augury** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:28 am

i got rid of all my windows systems a while back.

yaneurabeya · Post by **yaneurabeya** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:41 am

And how does this relate to the current convo?

sobers_2002 · Post by **sobers_2002** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:51 pm

just burned 2 dvd+r's of moser baer with k3b w/o any error. The writer is +/- compatible, so wy
doesn't dvd-r burn???

Nighthawk4 · Post by **Nighthawk4** » Thu May 05, 2005 4:02 pm

augury wrote:emerge -O app-cdr/cdrecord-prodvd app-cdr/cdrtools app-cdr/cdrdao

check /etc/cdrecord.conf for confilcts and do a k3bsetup. i set burn group to root.

I tried this after I installed K3B, but I still get the same errors when I run it:

Unable to find growisofs executable
K3b uses growisofs to actually write dvds. Without growisofs you won't be able to write dvds. Make sure to install at least version 5.10.
Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package.
Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable
K3b uses dvd+rw-format to format DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs.
Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package.

Also, when I try to run the setup, it says I need kdesu. When I try to emerge that, it says it is masked by the ~x86 keyword.

lotw · Post by **lotw** » Thu May 05, 2005 4:35 pm

Nighthawk4 wrote:
augury wrote:emerge -O app-cdr/cdrecord-prodvd app-cdr/cdrtools app-cdr/cdrdao

check /etc/cdrecord.conf for confilcts and do a k3bsetup. i set burn group to root.
I tried this after I installed K3B, but I still get the same errors when I run it:

Unable to find growisofs executable
K3b uses growisofs to actually write dvds. Without growisofs you won't be able to write dvds. Make sure to install at least version 5.10.
Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package.
Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable
K3b uses dvd+rw-format to format DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs.
Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package.
Also, when I try to run the setup, it says I need kdesu. When I try to emerge that, it says it is masked by the ~x86 keyword.

And easy way to fix that is install the growisofs, so emerge dvdrtools. Also it would be a wise choice to edit the /etc/make.conf and add dvdr to the USE statement.

Nighthawk4 · Post by **Nighthawk4** » Thu May 05, 2005 7:09 pm

I tried to emerge dvdrtools and got this:

# emerge --pretend dvdrtools

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B ] app-cdr/cdrtools (is blocking app-cdr/dvdrtools-0.1.6)
[ebuild N ] app-cdr/dvdrtools-0.1.6
#

I looked in the emerge man page, but cannot see how to uninstall the one I don't need.

How do I remove the cdrtools, so the dvdrtools will install please?

Nighthawk4 · Post by **Nighthawk4** » Thu May 05, 2005 7:17 pm

OK, I did a search on the Forum and found emerge --unmerge cdrtools.

Then I did emerge dvdrtools.

Unfortunately, this seems to have made things worse. Now I get this from K3B:

Used cdrecord version 1.11a15 is outdated
Although K3b supports all cdrtools versions since 1.10 it is highly recommended to at least use version 2.0.
Solution: Install a more recent version of the cdrtools.
Unable to find growisofs executable
K3b uses growisofs to actually write dvds. Without growisofs you won't be able to write dvds. Make sure to install at least version 5.10.
Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package.
Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable
K3b uses dvd+rw-format to format DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs.
Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package.
cdrecord 1.11a15 does not support ATAPI
The configured version of cdrecord does not support writing to ATAPI devices without SCSI emulation and there is at least one writer in your system not configured to use SCSI emulation.
Solution: The best and recommended solution is to enable ide-scsi (SCSI emulation) for all devices. This way you won't have any problems. Or you install (or select as the default) a more recent version of cdrtools.

Ever wish you hadn't started something?

lmcogs · Post by **lmcogs** » Fri May 27, 2005 4:24 pm

Hi

Any more developments on this thread?

I am getting the same messages on kernel 2.6.11-r9 and new LG super multi dvd/cd rewriter ( just installed). I was able to emerge cdrecord-prodvd but I am wary of unmerging cdrtools and emerging dvdrtools. I am reemerging k3b at the moment with dvdr in my use varialbes in make.conf but I suspect it may fail with cdrtools blocking dvdrtools.

I am not sure what I am doing, never had a dvd writer before and don't really know what software to emerge.

lmcogs

lmcogs · Post by **lmcogs** » Fri May 27, 2005 5:08 pm

Hi

Well the reemerge of k3b with --newuse seemed to work. I put both cdr and dvdr in the use variable of make.conf file. I then burned a dvdr 4GB disk my first. I will keep my fingers crossed.

I have cdrtools installed but dvdrtools is not and emerge -pa dvdrtools gives that it is blocked by cdrtools. I also have cdrecord-prodvd installed.

lmcogs

Eskarel · Post by **Eskarel** » Sun May 29, 2005 2:12 am

DVDRtools, as I recall, is a fork of a much older version of cdrtools and is at the point basically just crap. You can, or at least I could I haven't fixed it up yet with my new kernel, burn dvd's just fine without dvdrtools.

michaelarch · Post by **michaelarch** » Sun May 29, 2005 3:13 am

Hello,
I think you need to install dvd+rw-tools. This will get you growisofs. Hope this helps.

Michael

lmcogs · Post by **lmcogs** » Sun May 29, 2005 6:44 pm

Hi
The reemerge of k3b with addition of cdr and dvdr in make.conf file worked. That must have installed dvd+rw-tools.

Lmcogs

yaneurabeya · Post by **yaneurabeya** » Sun May 29, 2005 10:38 pm

Yes, it would have.

andor2 · Post by **andor2** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 12:10 pm

hi!

i had the same problem, but i didn't have to re-emerge k3b

"emerge dvd+rw-tools" did it for me...

andor2 · Post by **andor2** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 12:22 pm

i just forgot to mention that everything worked fine except the dvd-videos

for that i had to do "emerge -C cdrtools" and "emerge dvdrtools"...

Cryptix · Post by **Cryptix** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:29 pm

@ Sobers_2002 Can i suggest that maybe the firmware on your dvd needs to be updated? New firmware adds support for new types of media. Perhaps your drive does not support that cheap princo media

that could be just the way it is. i have no idea how to update dvd-+rw firmware on a linux machine but its point and click on a windows machine if u have dual boot or another computer.

yaneurabeya · Post by **yaneurabeya** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:15 am

There are additional DOS bootdisk programs that can be run as well I think too. Info should be available wherever you find firmware update information.

sobers_2002 · Post by **sobers_2002** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 5:53 am

Cryptix wrote:@ Sobers_2002 Can i suggest that maybe the firmware on your dvd needs to be updated? New firmware adds support for new types of media. Perhaps your drive does not support that cheap princo media that could be just the way it is. i have no idea how to update dvd-+rw firmware on a linux machine but its point and click on a windows machine if u have dual boot or another computer.

hi
sorry for the late reply
i have tried the firmaware update........i still have the same problem

also i noticed one more issue.......some of the dvd's that i burned have some stuff on them
that is corrupted......as in not completely written........fo eg. 2 iso images that i burned didn't
work.
so i would like to know what i am doin wrong........also my system has always had
dvd+rw tools........so i guess thats not the issue.

thnx
Saurabh

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