What's the best dvd burning software for Linux?

[DKruskie]

i ran sudo lshw and got this on my drives
*-cdrom:0
description: DVD writer
product: DVDRW LH-16W1P
vendor: LITE-ON
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: SL08
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=open
*-cdrom:1
description: SCSI CD-ROM
product: CD-ROM GCR-8483B
vendor: HL-DT-ST
physical id: 3
bus info: scsi@1:0.1.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom1
logical name: /dev/scd1
logical name: /dev/sr1
version: 1.05
capabilities: removable audio
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=open


tried to play a dvd and go this with vlc

dvdread error: DVDRead cannot open source: /dev/scd0
vcd error: could not read TOCHDR
vcd error: no movie tracks found
access_file error: file /dev/scd0 is empty, aborting
cdda error: could not read TOCHDR
cdda error: no audio tracks found
main error: no suitable access module for `dvd:///dev/scd0'


Just for the hell of it I booted back into windows and tried to burn a dvd and failed too, tried to play a dvd too and it wont play. I think the dvd burner is on it way out.

[disturbed1]

A blank disc should show an icon on the desktop in GNOME, if you're settings are set to default.

You're DVD Burner is linked to /dev/sr0
logical name: /dev/sr0
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r

I'd still like to see the output from cdrecord. This will show quite a bit of information about the drive.

[DKruskie]

cdrecord speed=8 fs=32m -v -eject dev=/dev/scd0 /home/david/dvd/movie.iso 
cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Asuming -sao mode.
cdrecord: If your drive does not accept -sao, try -tao.
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a33 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2007 J�rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '/dev/scd0'
devname: '/dev/scd0'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : 
Vendor_info    : 'LITE-ON '
Identifikation : 'DVDRW LH-16W1P  '
Revision       : 'SL08'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM.
Current: DVD+R
Profile: DVD+R/DL 
Profile: DVD+R (current)
Profile: DVD+RW 
Profile: DVD-R/DL layer jump recording 
Profile: DVD-R/DL sequential recording 
Profile: DVD-RW sequential recording 
Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite 
Profile: DVD-R sequential recording 
Profile: DVD-ROM 
Profile: CD-RW 
Profile: CD-R 
Profile: CD-ROM 
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+R driver (mmc_dvdplusr).
Driver flags   : NO-CD DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED 
Supported modes: PACKET SAO LAYER_JUMP
Drive buf size : 1068032 = 1043 KB
FIFO size      : 33554432 = 32768 KB
Track 01: data  4245 MB        
Total size:     4245 MB = 2173459 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
Blocks total: 2295104 Blocks current: 2295104 Blocks remaining: 121645
Forcespeed is OFF.
Starting to write CD/DVD/BD at speed 8 in real SAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 4245 of 4245 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]   8.4x.
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 4451244032/4451244032 (2173459 sectors).
Writing  time:  467.201s
Average write speed   6.9x.
Min drive buffer fill was 76%
Fixating...
Fixating time:   31.114s
cdrecord: fifo had 70112 puts and 70112 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 17869 times full, min fill was 98%.

The dvd burn was good but the video was freezing every 10 seconds or so. I think the cause of the freezing was dvdlab pro being run with wine. Is there a linux native product that works like dvdlab for creating the vobs with m2v and ac3?

[disturbed1]

The disc was burnt correctly. mkisofs and cdrecord did their job correctly. The disc was burnt at the requested speed as well.

If it still doesn't play, it's an authoring issue. Try DVDStyler (www.getdeb.net)

[DKruskie]

I edited my post above at the bottom. but doesn't DVDStyler only work with mpg? Is there a way to mux the m2v and ac3 to a mpg?

[disturbed1]

I edited my post above at the bottom. but doesn't DVDStyler only work with mpg? Is there a way to mux the m2v and ac3 to a mpg?

No, it supports elementary streams (.m2v m1v wav mp2 ac3 dts srt) or mpg/vob. DVDStyler prefers demultiplexed streams. If you import a multiplexed stream, it gets demultiplexed.

---edit--

By the way if you need/want to multiplex/demultiplex

mplex to multiplex
mpgtx to demultiplex

mplex -f 8 -V -o output.mpg infile.ac3 infile.m2v
mpgtx -d -b /path/to/output/file input.mpg

passing one of the commands with a -h will give you the syntax, or try
man [program name]
to read the documentation of the program.

[DKruskie]

ok thanks, I will give it another go..I will report back tomorrow on how its working. Thanks for all your help you have given me . I probably need a new dvd burner too as it wont play a dvd for me.

[disturbed1]

If the disc mounts, and the files are readable, your drive should be good.

Like in windows, Linux needs certain files to play back dvds. If you're looking to play back commercial DVDs, you'll need a piece of software that may or may not be legal in some countries to bypass the copy protection. You can grab it from www.videolan.org (libdvdcss). There are other files that come in handy, dvdnav, lsdvd, dvdread, which may or may not be needed by your player.

Totem doesn't do DVD well, mplayer is good at playing titles, but menu support is lacking. VLC is most likely your best bet.

[DKruskie]

Yeah I have the libdvdcss for vlc I add ladvd as I already had (dvdnav, dvdread) I just tried a dvd i made 6 months or so and got cannot mount voulme.

[DKruskie]

Well I would like to report that all was working well, until my son crashed the comp and I lost everything, took all yesterday and most of today to get things almost back to where they were.

[GMaq]

Don't you mean "former" son?

[chelovek84]

http://flburn.sourceforge.net/

[micheletrecaffe]

Hello

Thanks for the useful thread on dvd burning... I recently switched to Linux mint, and my ability to burn dvds has gone straight into the gutter. Using HT Fireman under windows I think I got one dud in maybe 130-150 tries. Same burner, same discs, two out of three duds. And burn speeds that vary all over the place, from bytes per second to 6x in brief bursts.

Checking some parameters as per the suggestions in the thread (half the battle in Linux-- figuring out what to type. Worse than java) I came up with:

michele@michele-P4V88 ~ $ sudo apt-get install mkisofs
[sudo] password for michele:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
"genisoimage" selected intead of "mkisofv" "mkisofs"Note,
genisoimage is most recent version.
...

michele@michele-P4V88 ~ $ sudo apt-get install cdrecord
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note "wodim" selected instead ofi "cdrecord"
wodim is most recent version
...

Which means, if I understand the thread comments correctly, that I am stuck with the older, junkier software...

Any way to get over to what they recommend in the post, ie, cdrecord and mkisovf?

Thanks ahead of time!!

[Insomniak4700]

Hi michelle, wodim is a fork of the cdrecord software. Most linux distributions use wodim nowadays and most of the time the command "cdrecord" is linked to wodim, see here:
[charles@amdx2 ~]$ wodim --version
Cdrecord-yelling-line-to-tell-frontends-to-use-it-like-version 2.01.01a03-dvd
Wodim 1.1.11
Copyright (C) 2006 Cdrkit suite contributors
Based on works from Joerg Schilling, Copyright (C) 1995-2006, J. Schilling

Now I suppose you're using Ubuntu and brasero? Why not simply try something different? Xfburn perhaps? Unless you drop to the command line, it doesn't get more basic than Xfburn.

Hello

Thanks for the useful thread on dvd burning... I recently switched to Linux mint, and my ability to burn dvds has gone straight into the gutter. Using HT Fireman under windows I think I got one dud in maybe 130-150 tries. Same burner, same discs, two out of three duds. And burn speeds that vary all over the place, from bytes per second to 6x in brief bursts.

Checking some parameters as per the suggestions in the thread (half the battle in Linux-- figuring out what to type. Worse than java) I came up with:

michele@michele-P4V88 ~ $ sudo apt-get install mkisofs
[sudo] password for michele:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
"genisoimage" selected intead of "mkisofv" "mkisofs"Note,
genisoimage is most recent version.
...

michele@michele-P4V88 ~ $ sudo apt-get install cdrecord
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note "wodim" selected instead ofi "cdrecord"
wodim is most recent version
...

Which means, if I understand the thread comments correctly, that I am stuck with the older, junkier software...

Any way to get over to what they recommend in the post, ie, cdrecord and mkisovf?

Thanks ahead of time!!