Re: dvd+rw burner

2024-12-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > It's an older disk, 2.4 speed. I know these only from hearsay. My DVD+RW are all 4x. Oldest from 2006. Some of them are still in regular use here. > dd if=/dev/zero bs=2048 count=2295104 | \ >xorriso -as cdrecord -v -nopad dev=/dev/sr1 -eject - > ... > Writing to '

Re: dvd+rw burner

2024-12-17 Thread gene heskett
On 12/17/24 10:35, Thomas Schmitt wrote: dd if=/dev/zero bs=2048 count=2295104 | \ xorriso -as cdrecord -v -nopad dev=/dev/sr1 -eject - It's an older disk, 2.4 speed. Before I started the above, there was a darker area about 3/16 inch wide, the rest was still shiny, matching your

Re: dvd+rw burner

2024-12-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gene heskett wrote: > on that same staples dvd+rw disk: > xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev="$drive" fs=16m -eject "$image" 2>&1 | tee -i > /tmp/xorriso.log > apparently xorriso, which I had to install, completed normally but did take > a long time closing, I'll send the log by PM Summarizing the

Re: dvd+rw burner

2024-12-17 Thread gene heskett
On 12/17/24 04:23, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: xfburn claims burn mode isn't implemented yet, I wrote: Sounds like https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1952263#p1952263 Proposed remedy is to click at the button with the circular arrow beneath a text field which

Re: dvd+rw burner

2024-12-17 Thread gene heskett
On 12/17/24 04:23, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: xfburn claims burn mode isn't implemented yet, I wrote: Sounds like https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1952263#p1952263 Proposed remedy is to click at the button with the circular arrow beneath a text field which

Re: dvd+rw burner

2024-12-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > xfburn claims burn mode isn't implemented yet, I wrote: > > Sounds like > >https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1952263#p1952263 > > Proposed remedy is to click at the button with the circular arrow beneath > > a text field which tells the medium type (in

Re: dvd+rw burner

2024-12-16 Thread gene heskett
On 12/16/24 11:50, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 10:25 AM gene heskett wrote: What app is everyone using to write dvd's today? xfburn claims burn mode isn't implemented yet, and k3b insists on reformatting a dvd+rw, but then does not recognize it to bur

Re: dvd+rw burner

2024-12-16 Thread gene heskett
On 12/16/24 11:09, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: What app is everyone using to write dvd's today? I use my own program xorriso, mostly in scripts as the list of arguments can become lengthy. If you describe what you want to do then i could describe what i would do. xfburn

Re: dvd+rw burner

2024-12-16 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 10:25 AM gene heskett wrote: > What app is everyone using to write dvd's today? xfburn claims burn mode > isn't implemented yet, and k3b insists on reformatting a dvd+rw, but > then does not recognize it to burn the image. Is there some magic > invocation I'm not doing? >

Re: dvd+rw burner

2024-12-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hans wrote: > As far as I know, brasero and k3b relyon the same libs. Brasero depends on https://packages.debian.org/sid/libbrasero-media3-1 which does ISO 9660 production by libisofs and burning by libburn. Xfburn uses the same libraries for the same purposes. It recommends https://packa

Re: dvd+rw burner

2024-12-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > What app is everyone using to write dvd's today? I use my own program xorriso, mostly in scripts as the list of arguments can become lengthy. If you describe what you want to do then i could describe what i would do. > xfburn claims burn mode isn't implemented yet, So

Re: dvd+rw burner

2024-12-16 Thread Hans
Hi Gene, most people are suggesting "brasero", but for me personally "k3b" is my favorite (I am using plasma as desktop). K3b: Are all binaries installed? Check for "/usr/bin/dvd+rw-format" in k3b below "programs". I never had issues with dvd formatting, even (and that makes me wonder) dvd-rw