Cannot burn DVD with k3b

[Dotan Cohen]

On 22/01/07, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Robert Parker wrote:
>
> > The reason I think there is a problem with K3b is that:
> > 1. It is unnecessary.
>
> It's completely necessary.  Most of us would rather drag-and-drop than build
> an ISO from the command line.

It's not even a matter of preference. My wife, for instance cannot
learn to do that.

> > 2. There are many posts on list about problems with it.
>
> There are many posts on the list about problems with the backends. Almost
> all of them come about because the kernel developers and Jorge Schilling
> (cdrecord author) can't agree on the correct way to allow a program to have
> access to the CD burner.  The latest ones have been because udev refuses to
> recognize the scsi-generic device as related to the burner.  In all those
> cases though, cdrecord has the same problem whether you use k3b or not.
>
> > 3. I never managed to find any problem at all using growisofs manually.
>
> Lucky you.
>
> > I don't plan to
> >> make backups by manually invoking a command line program with stupid
> >> undocumented options like "use-the-force-luke".
> >
> >
> > Neither do I. If it's undocumented how did you find out about it?
>
> It's clearly used in the log Dotan posted.
>
> > K3b _worked_ for Dotan - it was growisofs that failed.
> >
> > So K3b can find a way to make a program that just works fail.
>
> When was the last time you created a DVD with growisofs and Hebrew file
> names?  The problem is that growisofs either doesn't have the ability to
> use them, or wasn't passed the right parameter.  If you know what it needs,
> I'm sure we can get k3b to pass it.

Even if it's not Hebrew, UTF-8 is standard enough that it absolutly
must be supported. Arabic, Russian, Thai, Amhari, Hindi, I could go on
and on. The segment of the computer-using population that can make do
with Latin-only letters is getting smaller day by day.

Dotan Cohen

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