On 12/27/05, Kenny Gow <kgfedora@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>growisofs does not execute cleanly for whatever video DVD project I > >>>make to be recorded on a DVD+R disk. (Six new disks wasted by k3b.) > >> > >>I don't know if it helps, but I recently purchased a DVD burner for > >>myself and (for some weird reason), it always requires that I run > >>`cdrecord -fix` after each disc I burn for the disc to be valid, > >>but only for DVDs, not for CD-R/RWs (though I've only tried burning > >>a single audio CD so far). > > I've never tried the Video DVD authoring feature of k3b. I always > make a Video DVD ISO file with mkisofs, then burn the DVD iso image > with k3b. > > It's pretty simple to use mkisofs after you've set up your DVD > directory with the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS directories. > > I use a command like this: > > mkisofs -o dvd.iso -V "Movie Name" -dvd-video -v /path/to/DVD > > Also, I found a tip about setting the -dvd-compat flag with growisofs > in k3b on this web page: > > http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Burning_Video_DVDs_in_Linux.html Your approach, Kenny, is quite effective and simple, and inspired the following alternative method: growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video /path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts Paul
