I just got a Plextor 712A, which has gotten good reviews from Linux users for compatibility. I flashed the firmware to the latest available version, 1.04. It reliably and readily will read CDR, CDRW, DVD-video, DVD-R, DVD+R. (It should read the rewriteable DVDs too but I don't have any to test yet.) And it will write data DVD-R and DVD+R with growisofs, though not, I should note, with dvdrecord -- which returns a SCSI error at the first write command, as does cdrecord-prodvd. What I somehow can't do -- why not? -- is to write a readable DVD-video. It might not be the fault of the Plextor, though. Here's what I've done: 1. Run dvdbackup on a DVD-video, which creates a "mirror image" of the structure on the DVD. The command: # dvdbackup -M -i/dev/dvd -o/temp/DVD/ This creates a structure under the name of the DVD -- say, TITLE, a directory that contains VIDEO_TS which itself contains the actual .VOB files and so on. 2. Run growisofs on the ripped image, preserving the structure of the files (and the capitalization): # growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video /temp/DVD/TITLE/ Here the option "-dvd-video" is passed to mkisofs to get the files in the right order for writing, and "-dvd-compat" gives compatibility with commercial DVD-video formats; the "-Z" means to burn the first session on the blank DVD-/+R. And that's it... growisofs executes this command with no complaints, and the result should be a DVD-video. But when I try to play it on the computer I get the message that dvdcss can't open /dev/dvd (?), and my home DVD deck, a Panasonic that claims to support DVD-R, does not recognize it. Any ideas, suggestions, advice? Debian testing + Kernel 2.6.7-k7, AMD Duron 1400. -- Peter King peter.king@utoronto.ca
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