overburning with gnomebaker

chiendarret · 04-27-2011, 04:55 PM

Hello: with debian squeeze i386 or lenny amd64 gnomebaker fails to proceed with "4.39 GB of 4.38 GB used. Overburning" while the file to burn is 4.4 GB and the DVD 4.7 GB.

If I try with a much shorter file, say 1 GB, then gnomebaker would like to burn.

I found on this forum old suggestions to put "chown root.cdrom /dev/sg0" in /etc/rc.local, at no avail.

In general I found gnome of very poor help in burning, at least in debian. The minimum offence that is raised is that when trying with gnomebaker, other burners (none of which works, including "brasero' and "CD DVD Creator") appear and one may get confused on which button to press. I got tired to have any time to burn without loading gnome, simply from the linux prompt.

Finally, complains on gnome web remain unanswered. The same with debian, why not to stop implementing gnome in their release.

thanks
chiendarret

chiendarret · 04-28-2011, 05:27 AM

ya, the content of dvd-r is not what verbatim declares (4.7 GB). Far less. chiendarret

cascade9 · 04-28-2011, 05:39 AM

I'm pretty sure that gnomebaker is meant to do overburning, but its not a program I use much, I dont have it installed. So any advice I'd give you on how to overburn with gnomebaker is just going to come froma search engine, I'm sure you can find links yourself.

Quote:

Originally Posted by chiendarret

ya, the content of dvd-r is not what verbatim declares (4.7 GB). Far less. chiendarret

Yet again, its the old MiB/MB, GiB/GB, binary/decimal 'problem'.

Quote:

Keep in mind that manufacturers quote the capacity of a writable DVD disc in decimal (base 10) rather than binary (base 2) notation so a 4.7 GB disc stores 4.7 billion bytes [4:700,000,000 bytes ÷ 1000 = 4,700,000 KB ÷ 1000 = 4,700 MB ÷ 1000 = 4.7 GB] . Expressed in binary notation (as is typical with CD-R, CD-RW and most operating systems) the same disc has a capacity of roughly 4.38 GB [4:700,000,000 bytes ÷ 1024 = 4,589,844 KB ÷ 1024 = 4,482.27 MB ÷ 1024 = 4.38 GB] .

http://www.osta.org/technology/dvdqa/dvdqa6.htm

RockDoctor · 04-28-2011, 09:19 AM

I use gnomebaker, but haven't tried to overburn with it or any other CD/DVD-burning software. For my simple needs, it suffices. If you haven't already, you might want to look at k3b; much nicer, in my opinion, than any currently-offered Gtk-based CD/DBD-burning software.