Greetings,

As a video hobbyist my quest is to find a Linux Distro that alows straithforwardly and no problems, no 'beating-around-the-bush' manoeuvers (like suddenly "not detecting" a dvd ram device in my PC)and other 'smarty' policies to 'gratiously' avoid fulfilling the simple request of recording such a DVD.

Please understand the objective of my hereby query and do not elaborate on any other issues. (Please spare me the 'holier-than-thouh' comments such the ones i've already been submitted to hereby, cascade almost10 and acid---something - courtesies...)
After installing and uninstalling several major Distros and obtaining NO satisfactory direct performance, on the above described acttivity, my question remains: IS THERE SUCH A LINUX DISTRO? IF AFFIRMATIVE, WHICH IS IT, please?
Pardon me for using capital lettering but my disappointment and frustratration is growing.
Thanks for your possible good attention,
Regards,
nrick

Based on your other threads about this same topic, you don't appear to want to listen to what folks are saying. If you're looking for one 'magic' distro that does EXACTLY what you want, HOW you want, without having to do ANYTHING to it, then no, there isn't. Any OS is going to require loading packages/software/whatever, to make it be what you want...Windows, Mac, or Linux. Also, barking orders about "do not elaborate", etc., won't get you much help. We will be glad to assist you, but you have to work WITH us. Answer questions, and provide useful details.

If you've loaded several major distros, how about telling us which ones you've tried? Which versions? What DVD authoring software have you tried? And what problems you HAD with them? Quite possibly, all of the errors you've had can be dealt with easily...but we can't guess as to your problems. There aren't any 'smarty' policies (???), or anything else that will prevent this. I do it frequently, with no problems, and have for years. Have used openSUSE, Fedora, and Ubuntu to do it, using QDVDauthor, ManDVD, DeVeDe, OGMrip, and Kino. All the DVD's have worked fine on commercial DVD players and computers afterwards.

If you're really struggling with this, and think there is some reason Linux is preventing you from doing what you want, then for you, Windows may be a better option.

T_Bone:

BARKING???!!

i think you forgot you were not writting to a member of your family! (As your nickname leaves to understand...).

As for the rest of your answer, i conclude that i've been guilty to expect a polite, elucidative and objective feedback, on a very specific Linux issue in this Site.

In all my first posts i've been honest in my opinions and descriptions of experienced problems with Linux and videoDVD recording, i've been polite and tryed to obtain clear advises from knowledged Members of Linux Questions - and all i received were unveiled insults and reprotive appraisals either because the size of my posts or my Linux mistaken assumptions or my
DUMB intentions, coming from persons(?) aggressively full of 'politicaly-correctness', passing 'hollier-than-thou' attitudes in their Reply(?!)-posters, eructing their wisdom and farting their Olympic Linux know-how...
Enough.
nrick

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Definitely.

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You've received several, but seem to take everything as a personal attack. You've been asked direct questions, which you've not answered, and your question is FAR from specific. Your ISSUE is...you say you have 'problems' with burning a DVD. Yet you again don't tell us what distro(s) you've tried, what software you've tried, and exactly WHAT the problem(s) you had were. Again, we're not going to guess.
If you think you've been polite, then your definition of what that is flawed. Be aware of several key things: this works for MANY THOUSANDS of people on a daily basis. Just because it doesn't work for YOU, doesn't mean there is some 'smarty' plot to keep you from doing it. Linux is free, so if you don't use it, that's really ok. Feel free to use Windows, Mac, or anything else you'd like..you will NOT be hurting our feelings, or taking money out of our pockets.

Comon. Do you really think this acceptable? I'm not going to report this thread, but I'm temped to. There is no need for personal insults. Besides not geting you any help (in the end it is very counterproductive) it creates an atmsphere that is NOT pleasant for forum members.

BTW, it would help if you actually had of said what the problem is.

Not 'I stick the DVD in and the 'Burn' button would grey out and the system would freeze., like you posted here-

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-which-894122/

More detail would actualy help people figure out what was going wrong. More like this-

"I have K3B version 2.0.2, running on fedora 15. I open K3B, click 'more actions', then go for 'New DVD project'. When I've added my files to the project, and then go to insert the DVD, the 'burn' button greys out and the system freezes until I eject the DVD'.

I was temped to link to the 'how to ask querstions the smart way' thread, but I dont think it would have helped, so I wrote that up as an easily readable example on this thread.

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Agreed. From what I've been able to decipher from the OP's other threads. some Windows software under Wine in also involved, so who knows where the problem could be?

If you want to copy a dvd, then just install the program k9copy. This program works similar to the Windows program dvdshrink. Generally you can get k9copy as a binary package within many linux distributions, and install it and have it work. If you're using Debian or Ubuntu, you'll have to enable the repository that deals with multimedia applications to do this. For other distributions, I'm not sure.

I myself use Debian. So, if you wish to get it, you yourself could use Debian. As I mentioned, you'd have to enable the multimedia repository after you've installed Debian unto your system to be able to install k9copy. Instructions for this are on the site at http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ and Debian itself can be obtained at http://www.debian.org.

However, as I mentioned, you can get it with any distribution. I've read that it's on the liveDVD of SuperGamer (though you'd need a dvd-rom that reads dual-layer dvds for this one). Mythdora also has k9copy already included, and you can get it here. The iso files come in the more conventional single-layer dvd, so this may be more useful than the Supergamer option. However, Mythdora is no longer being developed, so you may wish to get another more common distribution (IE, Debian or Ubuntu or OpenSuSE or Fedora or Mint or something). With all of them you can pretty easily install k9copy.

K9copy works reasonably well for the most part, though depending on the dvd you're attempting to copy, you may run into some issues. Generally it works pretty smoothly, however.

PS, if you're talking about recording video from a TV card, then the programs MythTV or XawTV would be the program of choice, I believe. I don't really know much about this, however. Like K9copy, MythTV can be installed pretty easily on any Linux distribution.

PPS, Regarding your objections to what you feel may be a glib condescending or patronizing tone here, the best advice I have is to keep in mind that those who offer assistance here are doing it for free. I feel it's best to focus on finding an answer to your query, rather than partaking in bickering over what is and what is not appropriate in the tone of answers here (unless it's racist, bigoted, or spam, at which point a simple press of the "Report" button is in order).

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BARKING?
Yes, capitalisation, and using bold type face, are commonly interpreted
as shouting, or barking, if you wish, specially if it comes w/ exclamation
marks and can be perceived as an order.


Please cut the personal attacks out, and treat the use of our forum as
the privilege it is; being noisy and demanding won't make you friends
(or willing supporters, if you prefer that term).



Cheers,
Tink

nrick,

Stop the abusive behavior.

BTW, you can edit your posts. As a sign of good faith & as an apology for your past abuse of our members, you could review (there are only 9) all your posts & grey out the shouting & other abuse, rewrite your questions succinctly, & add appropriate apologies.

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A short view on SlackBuilds multimedia repository came up with these tools to handle DVDs in several ways:

• 2ManDVD - Authoring
• HandBrake - DVD ripper
• bombono-dvd - Authoring
• cinelerra - Audio/Video-Studio
• devede - Authoring
• dvd-slideshow - Create slideshows from pictures on DVD
• dvdauthor - Authoring
• dvdbackup - Backup DVDs
• dvdrip - DVD ripper
• dvdstyler - Authoring
• imagination - make slideshows from pictures on DVD
• k9copy - DVD ripper (like DVDshrink)
• kdenlive - Video studio
• kmediafactory - Authoring and slideshows
• lsdvd - list contents of DVDs
• qdvdauthor - Authoring
• subtitleripper - DVD subtitle ripper
• vobcopy - decrypts and copies DVD vob files

There may be more, I just had a short look.
Besides the mentioned video studios there are also several different video editors and off course different burning programs like K3B (default in a full Slackware install), Brasero, and xfburn.
So may be you should try Slackware and see if it fits your needs.

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+1 TobiGSD. That's a great resource list...includes a few I've never heard of, too.