[nzlug] DVD Writing Woes

[Nick Rout]

Nevyn wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Yesterday I was writing DVD's in Ubuntu. Eventually though, things
> started to turn sour. While it was writing a DVD, it stopped at the
> finalizing disc stage. The DVD writer was locked up and I couldn't
> kill the process still using it, so I decided that for once a reboot
> might be in order.
>
> However, now when I try to write a DVD, it goes from "preparing disc"
> to "finalizing disc" in around 30 seconds. It then ejects the disc,
> tells me that writing failed.
>
> It also writes something to the DVD so the blanks are no longer usable.
>
> This is happening with nautilus's burning folder thingee (not sure
> what it's called) and k3b.
>
> Has anyone ever come across this problem and have any ideas on how I
> might fix this?
>
>   

Often bad/incompatible media, or a computer that needs a windows style 
reboot (can't explain it, maybe I run too many memory leaky apps or 
something)

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