Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Yes, it would seem that the problem lies in some part of my burning options, or perhaps I just have several picky DVD players. Since I don't use mkisofs it doesn't matter what options I could pass it.Hi, Rob Bogus:However, I used -dvd-compat, not -dvd-video, if you think that has any chance of helping I'll try that.I understand -dvd-video is an option of mkisofs which growisofs does forward. It also triggers growisofs option -dvd-compat for the burner part of growisofs.
To be honest, my effort to use DVD+R is purely to speed the process, and the VCD effort just because I looked hard to find the software, and I tend to hang on to a problem until I understand it. But since my DVD playing software doesn't like DVD+R, I do think I'm doing something wrong.So it would make no difference to -dvd-compat if you burned an already formatted image. Like: growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=my_image_fileBut if you let growisofs do the mkisofs run growisofs -Z /dev/sr0 my_video_files ...then -dvd-video should yield a different image to be burned on the fly. (See man mkisofs, -dvd-video) Nevertheless if DVD-R work well by the same image formatting, i would not expect that a mkisofs option brings the decisive progress. (On the other hand: the devil is a squirrel)
Given yesterday's correction by Andy i re-read http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ Possibly you should read the paragraphs around "dvd+rw-booktype -dvd-rom -unit+r /dev/scdN" for another experiment proposal.
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