[RESOLVED - MAYBE] [UPDATE} Need help, please, with burning DVDs

[Basil Chupin]

On 31/03/2011 12:55, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 30/03/2011 02:25, Richard wrote:
>> On 03/29/2011 08:24 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>
>>> I have been using k3b for years to burn video DVDs both 4.7GB and 8.5GB
>>> without any problems - until this week:'( . I am using a Pioneer DVD-RW
>>> DVR-110 burner which burns the full range of DVDs (except, of course,
>>> BluRay).
>>
>> Basil, what version of K3b are you using? I'm using 2.0.1
>
> Ditto. The latest version is 2.0.2, with some bug fixes, but it is not 
> available for Maverick, and when I tried to compile it from source the 
> process collapsed with an error message.
>
>> and it works fine on the same platform as yours. I've had a similar 
>> problem traceable to the permissions stuff found under Settings>Setup 
>> System Permissions. sometimes an update diddles those things.
>>
>> At the K3bSetup page, my permissions are 660 on the device and 0755 
>> on cdrdao and cdrecord and growisof. It recommends using 0666 on the 
>> device and 4711 on the cdrstuff. I left mine alone and it seems to be 
>> working fine, so far.
>>
>> Of course, it could be something as simple as your Writer simply 
>> crapped out. Can you read cds and dvds?
>
> Initially I was most happy because, as you and rikona suggested, the 
> problem appeared to lie with the burner itself and disappeared when I 
> installed another burner from another computer after which I was able 
> to burn, in succession, 4 DVD -R DL discs without any problems.
>
> But then the wheels fell off (well, almost) :-( .
>
> When I went to burn discs #5 and #6 the burn went to the end but then 
> I got the 'normal' error messages with the first being "Unable to 
> fixate the disc" :-( . However, the drive did NOT lock up AND the DVDs 
> actually play normally!
>
> So, I don't know what the heck is going on and why.
>
> I spent some time yesterday going around trying to find a new burner 
> but had no luck so ordered one online from "my favourite shop" which 
> is interstate. Installing this brand new unit tomorrow will show if it 
> is the device or some fiddle in Ubuntu/k3b.

Well, a new, "untouched by human hands", DVDRW (a Pioneer DDVR-118) 
installed today and I burnt a DVD -R DL. Same result as I mentioned for 
discs #5 & #6 above: "Unable to fixate the disk" :-( . So, it's not the 
device but either k3b or some Ubuntu upgrade which was put thru in the 
last 2 weeks. Back to the drawing-board.

BC

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