Re: [gentoo-user] DVD gives error but works fine

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> This is mostly for Joerg Schilling since he is the list guru for ALL things
> DVD but others with nice answers can reply too.  ;-)   Anyway.
>
> I have been making movie DVDs.  Yea, I figured it out.  It took a while too.
>  Thing is, when I get ready to burn the DVD, I put in a nice shiney new
> DVD+RW that is made by Memorex.  I then tell k3b to burn the image.  It does
> its preformat thing then pops up a error that it failed.  Nothing more than
> that that I can see.  It also spits the DVD out.  I click load and it goes
> back in and finishes the burn normally and I might add that I have played
> several of these DVDs and they work fine.
>
> Since it burns fine and works in the end, why does it give me this error?
>  Some info:
>
> root@fireball / # equery list *cdr*
>  * Searching for *cdr* ...
> [IP-] [  ] app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.3-r1:0
> [IP-] [  ] app-cdr/cdrtools-3.01_alpha06:0
> [IP-] [  ] virtual/cdrtools-0:0
> root@fireball / # equery list *k3b*
>  * Searching for *k3b* ...
> [IP-] [  ] app-cdr/k3b-2.0.2-r1:4
> root@fireball / #
>
> [ebuild   R   ~] app-cdr/cdrtools-3.01_alpha06  USE="unicode -acl" 1,980 kB
> [ebuild   R    ] app-cdr/k3b-2.0.2-r1  USE="dvd encode ffmpeg flac handbook
> mad vcd vorbis wav (-aqua) -debug -emovix (-kdeenablefinal) -lame -musepack
> -musicbrainz -sndfile -sox -taglib" LINGUAS="-ast -be -bg -ca -ca@valencia
> -cs -csb -da -de -el -en_GB -eo -es -et -eu -fi -fr -ga -gl -he -hi -hne -hr
> -hu -is -it -ja -km -ko -ku -lt -mai -nb -nds -nl -nn -oc -pa -pl -pt -pt_BR
> -ro -ru -se -sk -sl -sv -th -tr -uk -zh_CN -zh_TW" 12,533 kB
>
>
> Ideas?  I checked the logs and I don't see anything except the burn itself.
>
> Dale
>

Hi Dale,
   We're operating in parallel today but using different tools.

   OK, based on Stroller's responses to my DVD Movie backup thread (or
whatever it was called) I'm trying out dvdbackup + mkisofs +
growisofs. So far the best (as measured by my ease of getting through
it) web site I found was an Arch Wiki page:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dvdbackup

   From this I got 4 basic commands to try out:

1) Grab the data off the disc backing up everything

dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -o . -M

2) Create an iso image:

mkisofs -dvd-video -udf -o ./dvd.iso ./MOVIE_NAME

3) Test that the iso works:

mplayer dvd:// -dvd-device ./dvd.iso

4) Write the iso to a DVD disc:

growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=dvd.iso

   So far I've had very mixed results, but it's early days:

1) The first movie I tried produced a black screen in mplayer with no
audio and a number of messages telling me to file a bug report.

2) The second movie produced good results in mplayer but the iso file
itself is bigger than 6GB implying to me that maybe it's dual layer or
something else I haven't figured out yet.

   Anyway, maybe we can keep each other updated (on list of off,
either is fine with me) about our progress.

- Mark