k3b: the king of wasting disks

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Jan 5 13:54:50 UTC 2006


Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 00:15 +0000, Paul Smith 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 found this to be the case with DVD+R media but DVD-R media seems to 
work fine without the additional fixation step.

Paul.




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