DVD writing software (Gnome)

[Toralf Lund]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 07:56 +0000, WipeOut wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have just upgraded my CD-RW drive to a DVD+/-RW drive..
>>
>>Yesterday I tried to write a whole lots of data to a DVD+RW disk using 
>>X-CD-Roast (which I have used for a while and find it easy to use).. 
>>When it cam to write the DVD it gave the following error..
>>
>>----- Error start -----
>>Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORDPRODVD dev= 
>>"/dev/cdrom" gracetime=10 fs=4096k -v driveropts=burnfree,noforcespeed  
>>speed=48 -dao -eject -pad -waiti tsize=978759s -
>>
>>execv error while calling /usr/bin/cdrecord.prodvd (No such file or 
>>directory)
>>----- Error end -----
>>    
>>
>
>X-CD-Roast requires the proprietary "prodvd" version of cdrecord to burn
>DVDs. It's also prone to complaining about the need for ide-scsi even on
>2.6-kernel based systems that don't need it. I'd switch to using k3b if
>I was you (yes, I know it's a KDE app but it's by far the best GUI for
>this and it works just fine in gnome)
>
Depends on what you want to do... For simple copy-to-DVD operations, the 
easiest option is probably to just use the desktop.

Enter "burn://" into Location: of a file browser (Nautilus) window, drop 
files to the window, and select "Burn to CD" (or whatever.)

- Toralf