Brasero

[Yorvyk]

On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:40:08 -0600
Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/16/2010 09:34 AM, Preston Hagar wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Jon Cosby<jon.l.cosby at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >    
> >> Is there an issue with burning DVDs in Brasero? I've been trying to burn
> >> images but after a few minutes it ejects the disk and the job fails.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Jon
> >>
> >>      
> > I agree with a lot of the other recommendations to move to k3b, but
> > you may still have bad burns.  k3b, brasero and pretty much all other
> > GUI burning programs use the same libraries to burn CDs/DVDs.  The
> > ones that come with Ubuntu by default aren't that great.  Without
> > going into a lot of detail about it, basically the burning libraries
> > that are in ubuntu by default were forked from the "original" quite a
> > while back.  The current libraries in ubuntu are called CDRKit and
> > aren't really maintained (last time I looked there hadn't been any
> > real updates for a couple of years).
> >
> > The "original" cdrtools is still actively developed and fixed.  You
> > can get the info for the ppa for lucid and karmic here:
> >
> > https://launchpad.net/~brandonsnider/+archive/cdrtools
> >
> > There are ppa's for older versions of Ubuntu as well if needed.  The
> > reason it was pulled from Ubuntu was because it used the CDDL, not the
> > GPL and linked to some GPL libraries and apparently there might be
> > legal issues with that.  Here is the cdrtools (probably biased)
> > opinions on the whole deal:
> >
> > http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html
> >
> > Honestly, I am not a OSS/GPL whatever zealot, I just want my software
> > to work, so I switched to th ppa above and reinstalled cdrtools.
> > Since I did, I haven't had a single bad burn.
> >
> > Anyway, worth a thought.
> >
> > Preston
> >
> >    
>              I thought when I loaded K3b, it brought a lot of files that 
> were enough to do any cd or dvd except 4 level dvd.  It does cd and dvd 
> single layer just fine on my 10.04 Desktop 64 bit. So why will it not 
> work on your computer?
> 
Probably for the same reason Brasero works flawlessly on a couple of my machines but, fails to function in any sort of predicable way on another :)


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