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I'm brand new to linux, and haven't gotten to grips with troubleshooting.
So if there's an easy way to find out what's going wrong, please just tell me and not flame me :-)
At the moment im using debian Sid. I did an apt-get of k3b, which installed version 0.11.20.
I'm trying to burn an ISO of a DVD I want to backup. I try by putting a dvd-r in the drive, opening up k3b: tools -> DVD -> Burn dvd image.
All goes fine up until the actual burn process starts. It prints the error: "Unable to GET EVENT: input/output error." - For the first time I let it burn anyway - it burnt at under 1x: but i didn't want to stop it incase it wasted the dvd. The dvd has the files on it, but wont play in any player.
I'm pretty sure all the dependancies are met.
It's using:
KDE v3.3.2
QT 3.3.4
If i've left out any info you need to help me out, please ask!
Thanks in advance,
CaPu // James
PS - I've done a load of web searches, followed advice from there, but still to no avail.
Did you mount the image and use either mplayer, xine, vlc, or other DVD player program. You will have to specify the video_ts directory for the DVD device path.
I usually get "Unable to GET EVENT: input/output error" with kernel version <=2.6.10, so I have to make a CD or DVD with root even though permissions are set. If you are using 2.4.x or >=2.6.11, then the problem will go away.
If you can play it in mplayer, then it should be good. To run k3b as root, try running 'sudo k3b' from the console. You may need to set the DISPLAY variable properly.
I ran k3b as root, but got an error that my version of growisofs being out of date.
I went and installed the dvd+rw-tools package, and the error is still coming up..... I did a "growisofs --version" which told me it's v5.21. K3b is wanting =>5.10....
Hrrm... You should just be able to ignore the message and continue, if that's correct. But I suggest double checking that you don't have multiple copies of it installed or anything like that.
Well, you definitely have multiple copies installed, which I would've thought would be hard to do with apt. You didn't install one from source, by any chance, did you?
You can always just change the path K3B looks in for the program, under K3b's options.
I installed one with source, yeah: I couldn't find it on apt at all. The original was already on my pc....
I tried modifying the search paths for k3b, but it still doesn't want to work... The program's detected the latest version or growisofs, but continues to block the dvd-burning capability.
How can I remove the older version? Or even better, remove both & do a proper install?
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