k3b: the king of wasting disks

[Paul Smith]

On 12/27/05, Kenny Gow <kgfedora at swbell.net> 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