From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 12/03/2021 03.34, William Unruh wrote:   
   > On 2021-03-11, PaulRS  wrote:   
   >> Here is my scenario:   
   >>     1. System: Under OpenSuse- Tumbleweed   
   >>     2. I have 6  mp4 videos that I want to put on disk.  The only one   
   >> that will take these is a 4.7Gb DVD.  So I start with the project "New   
   >> data project"  I line up the mp4's and make sure that click on "Misc"   
   >> after the click on "Burn."  Under "Misc" I highlight "NO   
   >> MULTISESSION."   
   >>     3. It writes to the DVD, claims "SUCCESS" and I have a fully used   
   >> DVD that says on reload "Empty."   
   >>     4. Messing with k3b a bit more I get it to "Analyze" the DVD to   
   >> which it believes it is to be "Appendable."  So I add a minimal text   
   >> file to be written to the DVD.  I select under "Misc:"  "Close   
   >> multisession."  Clicking Burn it now claims "error"  Blank Media.   
   >> What is the problem?  K3b worked fin under Opensuse 11.4 in doing   
   >> similar things.   
   >>   
   >> A guess:   
   >> It does not seem to be "closing" / "finalizing" the DVD.   
   >> It DOES work fine to "copy" another DVD.   
   >> Any help   
   >   
   > One problem may be that you are not using cdrecord as the backend. Many   
   > distros package cdrkit, and 20 year old version of cdrecord (created due   
   > to an utterly childish battle between some of the debian people and   
   > Schilling, the author of cdrecord). Schilling has kept cdrecord   
   > (cdrtools) up-to-date with new recording hardware. The cdrkit people   
   > have not. (cdrkit was a clone of an ancient version of cdrtools that   
   > then languished as far as updates were concerned) So I would check what   
   > it is that you are using in OpenSuse.   
      
   Current openSUSE uses the official version from Schilling.   
      
      
   Telcontar:~ # rpm -qi cdrtools   
   Name        : cdrtools   
   Version     : 3.02~a09   
   Release     : lp152.6.3.1   
   Architecture: x86_64   
   Install Date: Fri Jan  1 00:58:00 2021   
   Group       : Productivity/Multimedia/CD/Record   
   Size        : 1148168   
   License     : CDDL-1.0 and GPL-2.0 and GPL-2.0+ and BSD-2-Clause and   
   BSD-3-Clause and HPND and ISC   
   Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Mon Dec 14 23:50:10 2020, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284   
   Source RPM  : cdrtools-3.02~a09-lp152.6.3.1.src.rpm   
   Build Date  : Mon Dec 14 23:49:53 2020   
   Build Host  : cloud117   
   Relocations : (not relocatable)   
   Packager    : http://bugs.opensuse.org   
   Vendor      : openSUSE   
   URL         : http://cdrtools.sourceforge.net/private/cdrecord.html   
   Summary     : Tools for recording CD/DVD/BluRay media   
   Description :   
   Cdrtools is a set of command line programs for writing to   
   CD/DVD/BluRay media. It will install the original cdrtools binaries.   
   This is the original version from Joerg Schilling. Built from clean   
   sources without patches.   
   Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.2   
   Telcontar:~ #   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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