Brasero errors, ISO burn works OK

[Roel]

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.

I have Devede installed, so I will try it and come back "later".

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.

Brasero errors are overwhelming indeed. I was just trying to keep Gnome as Gnome as possible, but it seems it's not completely possible.

Luckily I have a great lot of time tomorrow so I think I will try my behind off then

Thanks gentlemen!

[huggybear]

FWIW, xfburn is gtk (from the Xfce project) and k3b can be forced to use gtk theme and icons via the package systemsettings.

[Roel]

Update: best results at this moment (without installing too many non-Gnome-native apps, is the howto (although it doesn't have the name "howto") of Kinslayer here: viewtopic.php?f=52&t=694

Especially the command

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genisoimage -o MOVIE_TITLE.iso -dvd-video MOVIE_TITLE/

does it all.

Now if I get the hang of wodim, I can burn CD's and DVD's from my server

Thanks all!

[mharrison]

Update: best results at this moment (without installing too many non-Gnome-native apps, is the howto (although it doesn't have the name "howto") of Kinslayer here: viewtopic.php?f=52&t=694

Especially the command

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genisoimage -o MOVIE_TITLE.iso -dvd-video MOVIE_TITLE/

does it all.

Now if I get the hang of wodim, I can burn CD's and DVD's from my server

Thanks all!

Don't know anything about wodim, but have you gried growisofs?

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growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=file.iso

[Roel]

Don't know anything about wodim, but have you gried growisofs?

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growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=file.iso

NOW I do. Thanks!

[Roel]

Don't know anything about wodim, but have you gried growisofs?

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growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=file.iso

NOW I do. Thanks!

I converted the VIDEO_TS folders to .iso using genisoimage and to DVD using growisofs. Two conclusions afterwards:

- the burning and iso-creating tools work fine, it must be Brasero that screws up
- growisofs actually calls dd to do the job

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