The kubuntu annoyance

[jeremy anderson]

On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:13, Art Alexion wrote:
> 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.


Sorry I missed that part.  I can't help you anymore then because I have not 
had any problems with any other part of k3b and I am constantly burning video 
dvds of my kids and because I have kids I backup their kids movies so not to 
scratch the originals.  My wife is also an amateur movie maker and she uses 
k3b for burning without problems.  I will keep an eye out for something on 
other forums for you though.

Jeremy