On 13/03/13 06:57 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 03/12/13 18:47, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Googling 'k3b blu ray' got me to http://www.k3b.org/ which says that
k3b
> burns blu ray discs. Let us know if it is true.
On 03/12/13 18:50, Gary Dale wrote:
On 12/03/13 09:47 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
You don't need anything special to burn blu-ray disks. Just mount them
as UDF and copy files to them. You may need to format (mkudffs) the
first time you use them.
Thanks for the replies. :-)
I'm looking for something simple that's integrated with GUI/desktop
OOTB. Something like Brasero. But, Wheezy amd64 XFCE Brasero doesn't
seem to support burning of Blu-Ray discs (?).
apt-cache search doesn't seem to offer any Blu-Ray burning applications:
2013-03-13 15:53:05 dpchrist@desktop ~
$ apt-cache search blu | grep ray
amora-applet - use a bluetooth device as X remote control (systray
applet)
I don't get it -- affordable Blu-Ray burners have been out for well
over a year. Burning Blu-Ray is a desktop killer app. Debian
*should* have it. Where is it?
The difference between Blu-ray and DVD is that DVD is a super CD while
Blu-ray is a super DVD-RAM. The former requires special software while
the latter doesn't. The former uses a track structure while the latter
uses a block structure like any other Linux block device.
Your file manager is all the GUI you need to "burn" a BD-R/RE. The
popular dvd+rw-tools package supports burning BD-R and BD-RE. These are
the back-ends to GUIs programs like Brasero and K3B and the various file
manager plug-ins to provide Blu-ray support. However, even Blu-ray
movies use UDF as the file system so you may not really need these tools.
If you are having trouble using Brasero with Blu-ray, that would be a
bug either in Brasero or dvd+rw-tools. Have you installed dvd+rw-tools?
If not, Brasero may be trying to run without it (which may not work out
very well).
UDF is just another file system for Linux and you can work it from the
command line too. For example to back up a home directory to a new BD-R
or BD-RE:
mkudffs /dev/sr0
mount -t udf /dev/sr0 /media/bluray
cp -a /home/me/* /media/bluray
umount /media/bluray
eject
You can format BD-RE to any file system you like but UDF is a good
choice and universally supported.
PS: I have a huge complaint about nomenclature. I can understand CD-R to
distinguish it from CD-ROM, but that really should be CD-W because both
CD-R and CD-ROM are readable. When the Blu-ray overlords decided to
change the convention for their new discs, they should have used BD-W
and BD-WE, or BD-1 and BD-M, or anything to establish that the ability
to write some number of times is the real difference.
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