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

[Basil Chupin]

On 04/04/2011 04:01, Pongo A. Pan wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 23:21 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 02/04/2011 02:12, Pongo A. Pan wrote:
>>> Have you changed the connecting cable?
> Sorry, missed that.  Pretty obvious first step.
>
>> Yes - see my new thread, "Is there a log file........" (sorry can't
>> remember its full name :-( ).
>>
>>> Have you tried burning with another OS installed on the computer (even
>>> temporarily) or with one on a usb or liveCD?
>> I have tried XP but not having used it for zonks I had to download a
>> couple of burning apps for it - but they were *crap*. So I am still
>> looking for a decent burning app for XP.
> To be sure that I'm not talking through my hat, I just tried using the
> Ubuntu 10.10 liveCD and brassero to made a cd.  I worked perfectly.

The problem covered by original post has nothing to do with CDs - all to 
do with k3b not being able to burn DVD -R DL discs.

I've never had trouble with burning CDs nor DVD -R and DVD +R DL using k3b.

But see my FINAL REPORT on this problem :-) .

> That would be a simple test that you could do in 10 minutes which would
> tell you fairly certainly whether the problem is with software or
> hardware.
>
> Presumably, you could use Kubuntu on a cd or usb to do the same thing
> with k3b if you prefer it.
>
>>> Have you tried using wodim directly?
>> No.
>>
> As I said, I haven't needed to burn from the CLI since my Mandrake days,
> so I can't help.  The man page seems to indicate that there are lots of
> testing and debugging modes; it might be worth the effort to try it.
>
>>>     AFAIK k3b, brasaro,
>> Brasero........I am buggered if I can figure out how to use the damn
>> thing! It keeps coming up with something like "these files are not DVD
>> files" when I try to burn a DVD sitting on the HDD. Bloody primitive,
>> brasero is.
> Brassero is very Gnomic; almost nothing for the user to change and the
> defaults are very sensible.  I can't imagine why you would have trouble
> with it; it has always worked for me out-of-the-box.  It's just a front
> end for Wodim anyway.

Reason why I stated that I am buggered if I can figure out brassier-o is 
that, unlike something like k3b where I can simply 'grab and drag' the 
TS_VIDEO folder for it to be burnt, with brassier-o it won't allow this 
and when I did try and 'grab/drag' individual files it came back with 
the error message that the damn file(s) is/are not for a video DVD. 
After several such attempts I assigned brassier-o to the rubbish bin.

BC

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