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Remusx2
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 Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 12:30 am Post subject: Burning DVDs does not exceed 2.80X [Solved] |
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After doing an | Code: | | emerge --update world |
I cannot burn above 2.80X in k3b. To my knowledge, there was nothing updated that dealt with burning DVD's. Before the emerge, I was burning at 16X and 8X depending on the max speed of the disc. Now, with either type of disc, I only get 2.80X =[ It's not too big of a deal but it was nice having a ~6 minute burn rather then a ~20 minute one. Any ideas or do I simply need a restart?
Thanks
Brandon
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bobspencer123
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| Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 1:54 am Post subject: |
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I do believe that dvdrw-tools package was updated pretty recently maybe this has something to do with it. Because this is the package that growisofs comes from which is the program the k3b uses to burn dvd's.
Maybe try reverting back to a previous version of this package. |
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GetCool
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| Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 2:54 am Post subject: |
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| bobspencer123 wrote: | | I do believe that dvdrw-tools package was updated pretty recently maybe this has something to do with it. |
Possibly, although I'm running the latest versions of dvd+rw-tools and cdrtools and they work fine (albeit from the command line). You could try burning a disc from the CLI, too, to see if K3B is the problem or if it is the underlying utilities.
Check your emerge.log for a list of the updates that were performed when you did your last emerge, and you may be able to isolate a specific package update. I cursorily looked through the changelogs of a few packages, but I couldn't spot anything drastic. |
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Remusx2
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| Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 3:21 am Post subject: |
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Thank you guys for the quick response... I'll try reverting back to the older version first to see if that helps... then I'll try the CLI. Mainly I'm backing up my music, is there an easy way to burn ~4.4 GB of multiple folders from the command line?
I'll post back with the results
Thanks again
Brandon |
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GetCool
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| Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 4:23 am Post subject: |
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| Remusx2 wrote: | | Mainly I'm backing up my music, is there an easy way to burn ~4.4 GB of multiple folders from the command line? |
Yes, I do exactly this with my FLAC archive. It is certainly possible to back up complicated folder hierarchies to DVD; in fact, I recommend the CLI over K3B.
As taken from the growisofs man page, the basic syntax to burn files to a blank DVD is:
| Code: | | growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /some/files |
...and to append files to the same DVD:
| Code: | | growisofs -M /dev/dvd -R -J /some/files |
Some tips:
- Always do a dry run first to catch potential errors before wasting media. To do this, add the -dry-run option at the beginning of the command, i.e.:
| Code: | | growisofs -dry-run -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /some/files |
If you want to burn a directory to DVD but omit some of its contents, use the -x option:
| Code: | | growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J -x /some/files/foo -x /some/files/bar /some/files |
Finally, if you have long filenames and/or filenames with special characters, you may want to change the iso9660 comformance level to prevent your files from being renamed/truncated:
| Code: | | growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J -iso-level 4 /some/files |
See the mkisofs and growisofs man pages for more details. |
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Remusx2
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| Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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Well, no luck with the command line burning  It is very neat though  I think I am going to try a restart to see if that fixes anything.... it's been awhile since my last reboot (about 30 days). Thanks again for the help. |
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Remusx2
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| Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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It seems that a reboot was successful in fixing the burn speed problems, atleast with the 8x discs.
thanks everyone |
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