On Monday 19 Dec 2005 18:46, Jonathan Wright wrote: > John Jolet wrote: > > On Dec 19, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Paul wrote: snip> > > > > don't assume it's the os...could very well be the burner. unless it's > > the same box and dual-boot? > > I've been working with burners since there was only 1x scsi cdr and the > > media was $25/each. There has ALWAYS been great variation in media and > > burner compatibility. It's a LOT better than it used to be, but > > still.... > > Very true - although it could be a case of Windows 'covering' over a > problem, where it would continue on this disk when Linux won't (what > with it's superior tools and everything ;) > > I have found the DVDs are very difficult to get working reliably. In > fact, I've found alot write fine in the drive, but the drive has trouble > reading them again, but no problems in reading normal DVDs. > > It may be worthwhile looking at a different batch of disks instead of a > different disk - just in-case it's a bad batch. Well the disc completed ok and played ok on the computer but when I tried both of my dvd players, the picture and sound kept jumping on one and on the other the disc was not recognised. Ah well plod on with windows for this task. I could but another burner and install it in the windows box because nero will write to multiple discs. Than way I can cut down the time to produce 70 ish dvd by half. Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
