DVD burning issue - more info

[Paul Howarth]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 12 March 2006 23:39, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> 
>>Greetings Anne,
>>
>>Anne Wilson wrote:
>>
>>>On Sunday 12 March 2006 19:23, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'm trying to burn a data DVD with k3b (FC4), but keep getting the error
>>>>"growisofs did not exit cleanly".  Any ideas, please?
>>>
>>>I tried xcdroast, and that seems to be looking for
>>>/usr/bin/cdrecord.prodvd, which does not exist.  I've not seen this
>>>before.
>>
>>That's perfectly logical . You see xcdroast is not a standalone programm
>>but actually is a frontend to cdrecord . In other words you see xcdroast
>>running with beautifull windows and the rest but the real job is done
>>by cdrecord. Now the original version of cdrecord was for writing CDs
>>( Audio, Data , mixed , you name it ) , cdrecord.prodvd is the
>>extension for writing DVDs . That's all that it is about .
>>
> 
> I thought it was likely to be that, but where does it come from?  
> --whatprovides says that no package provides cdrecord.prodvd

Which is true. It's not required on Fedora, as the Fedora version of 
cdrecord already includes DVD support and you don't need to get the 
(non-free) prodvd version.

Quite why the Fedora version of xcdroast should be looking for 
cdrecord.prodvd I don't know.

>>If you don't mind , why don't you use growisofs from the command line ?
>>It should look something like the one below :
>>
>>
>>#growisofs -R -J  -speed=8  -Z /dev/scd0 /Data
>>
>>
>>-R : stands for the Rockridge Extensions , well you need this
>>so that mkisofs will not produce a warning because you used -J
>>-J : stands for the Joliet Extensions . If the DVD you want to
>>write will be read sometime by a Computer running Microsoft
>>Windows then you need this .
>>-Z : you put the DVD Recorder device ( the above example was
>>when i was using a 2.4 kernel with the ide-scsi emulation )
>>/Data : is the directory that contains the data to be written
>>to the DVD
>>
> 
> I did think about that, but didn't have the confidence to handle multiple 
> directories and multiple exclusions.

Try experimenting with mkisofs to create an ISO image of what you're 
trying to burn to DVD. You can loopback-mount the ISO to see what you've 
got. Once you've got it how you want it, put the options in a script and 
you can automate your DVD burning. You could burn the ISO using cdrecord 
or growisofs, and growisofs can accept mkisofs options directly.

Paul.