k3b: the king of wasting disks

Kenny Gow kgfedora at swbell.net
Tue Dec 27 22:08:20 UTC 2005


Paul Smith wrote:
> 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
> 
Cool. I hadn't looked closely enough at the growisofs man page
to see that you could pass mkisofs options.

In any event, I like to create the DVD images so I can test them
with xine, usually to see if my custom menus work, etc.

xine can play a DVD iso image or by full path to
/path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts

e.g.,

xine dvd:/full/path/to/dvd.iso

or

xine dvd:/path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts

and even

xine dvd:/path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts/VIDEO_TS

works too!




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