From: prschmi@Zfrontier.com   
      
   On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 02:34:21 UTC, 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.   
   >   
   > I also presume that you have at least tried to close the writing before   
   > the disk is completely full (eg, just try to put on 5 of the videos   
   > instead of 6 and see if things work then.   
   > >    Paul   
   > >  --   
   > >   
      
   I "fired up" my OpenSuse 11.4 box and used the 11.3   k3b version   
   installed under 11.4.  I kept the "Misc" tab (after selecting burn) on   
   the default "auto."  The result was a perfect data DVD with all 6 mp4   
   files burned filling 3/4 of the DVD.   
   Now, the question is k3b is a gui for several underlying programs -   
   this means that the problem could be with any of the upgrades of the   
   underlying programs???   In any case, at the moment I can do what I   
   need under 11.4 on a slower box.  However, I would like to get this   
   fixed under the current "Tumbleweed" installation.   
   Let me know if you can make a several file data DVD that spans at   
   least 1Gb on the DVD and produces a working DVD with the various files   
   available to be accessed.   
      
      
   Paul   
      
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