Re: dvd+rw-tools: DVD-RW discs are burned as "protected" on LG GSA-4163B

[Rob Bogus <rob23@tmr.com>]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Piotr Paw³ow <pp@siedziba.pl> wrote:
>
>   
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a problem with burning DVD-Video on a DVD-RW media. Burned discs
> > won't play on most software and hardware players. While it plays in Windows
> > Media Player, it won't play in VLC on Windows, neither VLC or Xine or
> > Mplayer on Linux, and won't play on any standalone player I tried.
> >     
>
> Start with a clean setup:
>
> create the image with  a _recent_ mkisofs
>
> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
>
> and use mkisofs -dvd-video to create the image
>
> use cdrecord to write to the medium
>
> If the DVD-RW medium has been written by growisofs before
> you need to cleanup the medium with cdrecord -v blank=all before.
>
>
> Make sure you use the official and unmodified cdrecord  and not 
> a bastardized version from one of the Linux distributors.

And let us know how it works.

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E. Robert Bogusta
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