Brasero errors, ISO burn works OK

[Roel]

I don't really know where to start.

I have been busy burning VIDEO_TS folders to DVD's using Brasero. At the end, I get the usual "you have to eject the disk manually", but I am already used to that. Then, when everything is ready, I insert the burned disk and it seems to start, but after it really starts I get the message there is an error saying there is something wrong with permissions

Another DVD came with an ISO-file and that one burned flawlessly, with the same DVD burner.

After this I have tried about anything, I also converted the VIDEO_TS folder to an ISO-file using Brasero and that went well. The burning of that particular ISO went well but gave the same error when playing back. Dmesg only came with "can't find track 1".

Meanwhile I had to transfer the folders to my laptop, and let Vista do the job. The nagging feeling, of course, still exists. I just can't imagine why I CAN burn an ISO but no files-to DVD. Anyone to share this experience?

[huggybear]

It seems that a lot of people complained about this and that allegedly the Gnome people don't really care much.

You can try xfburn or k3b.

[mharrison]

How are you creating the VIDEO_TS folders?

I use the following (sorry for the blog feel to the text...I took it off of my blog)

I regularly use the program DeVeDe to turn movie files into a DVD ready ISO file that I can play in my dvd player. However, enjoying the learning of new things, I decided to learn how to do the same thing DeVeDe does via the command line. You will need the ffmpeg, dvdauthor, and genisoimage packages installed in order to proceed.

To do this, you must first run the following command for each movie file you wish to add to the ISO:

ffmpeg -i film.avi -aspect 4:3 -target ntsc-dvd dvd.mpg

After each file has been convered to an MPG you must run the following command on each file created by the previous command: "Note that the dvd/ is the path to where you want to collect the files to turn into the ISO*
dvdauthor -o dvd/ -t dvd.mpg

After you are done with the files using the previous command, run the following on the path you set in the previous command to prepare the files for collection into an ISO that is DVD ready.
dvdauthor -o dvd/ -T

Finally run the following command from within the path you set above, noting that Movie_Title.iso is the name of the ISO you wish to create and the path Movie_Title/ is the folder in which the ISO will be saved in.
genisoimage -o Movie_Title.iso -dvd-video Movie_Title/


Using this method I have not had any problems using Brasero to burn the ISO or playing the DVD

[huggybear]

and you could probably also remove Brasero and all its gnome deps altogether and just burn the ISO from command line. Make that into a script and you're good to go with this by just entering 1 command.

[mharrison]

and you could probably also remove Brasero and all its gnome deps altogether and just burn the ISO from command line. Make that into a script and you're good to go with this by just entering 1 command.

You could, although you would have to do something to the script when you have multiple files to convert.....

I haven't used Brasero in a little while now though....Still not 100% sold on K3B but it is growing on me.

[huggybear]

That sounds like a neat project... hmm...

[Roel]

How are you creating the VIDEO_TS folders?

My stepdaughter came to me with some DVD's she bought (all Winnie the Pooh), her autistic son damaged a few of them. She asked me if I was able to download them somewhere and replace the damaged ones.

The trouble with downloads (mostly newsgroups) is that you never can tell in what format they come. The ISO ones are easy because Brasero seems to be able to burn them. But as soon as they come in AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS, the trouble starts, Brasero just can NOT handle it.

So, I didn't create anything myself. they just came as a download. And this should be correct as Windows did the job (hmmm hate to say that).

[Roel]

and you could probably also remove Brasero and all its gnome deps altogether and just burn the ISO from command line. Make that into a script and you're good to go with this by just entering 1 command.

OK but then I am wondering where it goes wrong; burning ISO --> OK. Burning files to an ISO seems OK (using Brasero). Burning the ISO to DVD seems wrong as the DVD is not playable.

So I am wondering what causes the bad stuff: the converting to ISO or burning the ISO to disk (both by Brasero). Burning files directly to disk gives the same fault.

[mharrison]

How are you creating the VIDEO_TS folders?

My stepdaughter came to me with some DVD's she bought (all Winnie the Pooh), her autistic son damaged a few of them. She asked me if I was able to download them somewhere and replace the damaged ones.

The trouble with downloads (mostly newsgroups) is that you never can tell in what format they come. The ISO ones are easy because Brasero seems to be able to burn them. But as soon as they come in AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS, the trouble starts, Brasero just can NOT handle it.

So, I didn't create anything myself. they just came as a download. And this should be correct as Windows did the job (hmmm hate to say that).

Try installing Devede.....if I recall correctly, it can take the video_ts folder and turn it into a good iso...I've never burned anything but ISO's in Brasero when I used it and I never had a problem unless the disc was bad....so I can't say anything else on your problems with it.

[huggybear]

You could, just for shits and giggles, burn a DVD with another GUI frontend, because, if you care to google brasero errors, you'll find that, especially Ubuntu, has had a loooooooooooooooot of them, and that those random errors aren't being fixed since 2y or so.

Can you try it via command line, with xfburn or k3b? See if it persists. If yes, then it's maybe one of the command line tools or libraries that Brasero relies on. If not, then it's Brasero and you know better to stay away from it.