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Old 07-21-2004, 08:57 PM   #1
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Linux's last stand: DVD burning


Please help me with DVD burning. I have been successful ripping a whole DVD-9 to the hard disk using dvdbackup. And I can transcode using DVD Shrink under wine. The question is: how do I burn to a DVD-5?

I have used K3b (and the command line growisofs, which K3b is based on) with no success due to the following error:

Failed to change write speed: 0->11080

I am currently trying to use dvdrecord (really cdrecord), but it can't locate the DVD burner. Here's the output:

$ dvdrecord speed=1 -dao dev=1,0,0 friends3-2.iso
scsidev: '1,0,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/sg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.

I am using 1,0,0 because cdrecord -scanbus told me to do so:

$ cdrecord -scanbus
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'SONY ' 'DVD RW DRU-530A ' '2.1a' Removable CD-ROM

What am I doing wrong? Anybody? Are there any other tools that I should know about for burning or do I have to keep my Win2k partition for a while? Please help... desperately needed....

Eric
 
Old 07-21-2004, 09:00 PM   #2
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Try this for your device if you don't have another CD/DVD burner:
dev=0,0,0
 
Old 07-21-2004, 09:06 PM   #3
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Thanks for the hint, but I get a similar error:

# dvdrecord speed=4 -dao dev=0,0,0 ~us/friends3-2/friends3-2.iso
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
cdrecord: No such device or address. Cannot open '/dev/pg0'. Cannot open SCSI driver.

I gotta think that Linux can do this at least as well as Win2k and Nero, but no luck so far. I tried getting Nero to work under wine, but that's a whole other thread.
 
Old 07-21-2004, 09:21 PM   #4
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Unfortunently, getting Nero to work with Wine doesn't have good chances, since Wine isn't designed to interact with devices, just to run apps/games. Anyhoo, is the drive in question an IDE drive or SCSI drive? Do you know its /dev/ name?
 
Old 07-21-2004, 09:23 PM   #5
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The drive is /dev/hdc. That makes it an IDE drive, right? But don't most (or all) IDE drives act like scsi drives too? (possibly have to recompile the kernel or something...).
 
Old 07-21-2004, 09:32 PM   #6
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FC2 uses kernel 2.6, right? If so, it's possible that a kernel recompile is not needed (it's best not to have SCSI emulation if you can avoid it, anyway). Try this:
dev=ATAPI:0,0,0
Unfortunently, CDrecord doesn't support scanning for non-SCSI emulated IDE devices, but it CAN use them if you're on kernel 2.6.x.
 
Old 07-21-2004, 09:46 PM   #7
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Thanks for the help, LavaDevil94. The drive is recording right now! Hopefully the DVD will be playable in my standalone player. I'll post back when it's done.

Eric
 
Old 07-21-2004, 10:14 PM   #8
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Terrific! It works in my computer's DVD drive and my standalone player. This is the first non-coaster that I have produced with Linux!

Thank you so very very much!

Eric
 
Old 07-21-2004, 10:27 PM   #9
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Sure thing. You have anymore problems, let us know .
 
Old 07-22-2004, 12:28 AM   #10
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I realize that you've gotten it working and all. I would however like to suggest that you try growisofs for dvd writing software rather than dvdrecord. It has better multisession support, and, I believe, dvdrecord doesn't support DVD+R/RW.

http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/.

growisofs is nice since it acts as a front-end for mkisofs. This means I don't have to worry about creating a temporary .iso archive before burning. I just list all the files on the command line, and it automatically pipes it.
 
  


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