Re: dvd+rw burner

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Gene Heskett wrote:
> What app is everyone using to write dvd's today?

I use my own program xorriso, mostly in scripts as the list of arguments
can become lengthy.
If you describe what you want to do then i could describe what i would do.


> xfburn claims burn mode isn't implemented yet,

Sounds like
  https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1952263#p1952263

Proposed remedy is to click at the button with the circular arrow beneath
a text field which tells the medium type (in that case "DVD+R").


> k3b insists on reformatting a dvd+rw,

In the first few write runs of a DVD+RW life, the drive reports yjay the
medium is partly formatted. A skilled burn program then issues the SCSI
command for background formatting, waits a dozen seconds until a reply
arrives from the drive and then begins to write while formatting goes on.
(Only DVD+RW can be formatted that way.)


> but then does not recognize it to burn the image.

Do you have any exact messages which i could search in Debian's K3B
sources ?
( https://sources.debian.org/src/k3b/24.05.2-1/ )
Maybe i can find out what's its woes in terms of drive and medium.


> Is there some magic invocation I'm not doing?

So you want to burn an image file to DVD+RW.

I'd do in a shell terminal with appropriate content in variables "drive"
and "image":

  drive=/dev/sr0

  image=...path.to.the.image.file...

  xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev="$drive" fs=16m -eject "$image"

If something goes wrong, there should be error messages which i'd ask you
to copy+paste into a mail to this list or to my mail address if you deem
them unsuitable for public exposure.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas