The kubuntu annoyance

[Art Alexion]

On Thursday 04 January 2007 10:02, jeremy anderson wrote:
> On Thursday 04 January 2007 09:06, Art Alexion wrote:


> > For me, k3b has refused to burn certain video DVDs.  Nero burns them
> > without complaint.  I have yet to figure out what it is about the
> > particular DVDs that gives k3b a problem.  The symptoms are that as soon
> > as you click OK in the burn dialog, the first message is something like
> > "Error! Can't determine ISO size." and then it aborts.  The DVDs that I
> > have then burnt using Nero (which makes no such complaint) play fine.  As
> > a note, I use dvdauthor and qdvdauthor to create the DVD structures.
> > However, the video sources from the problem DVDs come various unknown
> > sources (I collect Jazz performances from European and Japanese TV). 
> > This does not seem to be a PAL vs. NSTC problem, nor a full vs. wide
> > screen problem.


>
> I am no way an expert with k3b but I have found that a reduction of speed
> on the copy for some burns has kept me away from errors.  Worth a try
> anyway. If it works for you too then maybe nero has a better way of taking
> care of this in auto mode...  Again not an expert but try and see if it
> works for you.  One of my burns I had to go down to the lowest setting.

Jeremy,

Thanks, but this cannot be a speed issue because the very first thing k3b 
does -- before it does any burning or even accessing the drive itself -- is 
complain that it cannot determine the ISO size and then aborts.  It is 
probably a growisofs problem more than a k3b problem, and Nero probably uses 
something other than growisofs.

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