[nzlug] DVD Writing Woes

[Morgan Ashley]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:38:54 +1200
Nevyn <nevynh at gmail.com> 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.
> 

For what it is worth, I've pretty much given up on GUI cd/dvd writing apps as I was getting just those kinds of errors with some (low cost) media. I've been using wodim (succesor to cdrecod apparently) on the same disks which nautilus rejected. 

On the other hand, Nautilus burned my (brand name) DVD-Rs without any problems.

A bad burn can be worse than just a wasted disk... if the disk in question was a rescue sytem because I didn't fully trust the Feisty upgrade process working on a raid array. 

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