[SATLUG] DVD burning help

[Mike]

I agree that K3B is the best graphical application for mastering CD's
and DVD's on any platform I know.  However, one can reliably burn
DVD's from the command line using the 'growisofs' utility, with which
I have also had very good experience.  This package is probably
already installed on your distribution, but if not then read
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/growisofs1.html to see why you
might want to start using it.  Using growisofs you have the added
bonus of being able to burn some data now and then go back to add
more files later to the same DVD, not unlike multi-session CD's.

hope this helps,
 - Mike Roberts


--- Jeremy Mann <jeremymann at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mike, don't do it manually. Rather get K3B which is a killer DVD
> data
> burning program. Its completely click and drag. I've used it for
> years
> to make data DVDs.
> 
> 
> On 8/22/05, Mike Wallace <mikeaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It appears I need a good lesson in DVD burning before I make too
> many
> > more coasters.  I have a couple very large files (~3G) that I
> wanted
> > to backup to DVD.  mkisofs and dvdrecord behaved as normal, but
> > instead of there being a huge file of 3G on the disk, it only
> showed
> > 10M!!  The iso image was the correct size (~3.1G) and the other
> much
> > smaller files on the DVD appeared fine.  I opened up the text
> files to
> > make sure that I they weren't corrupted.  So, what happened to my
> 3G
> > file?  Is there some magic option I need to use in mkisofs or
> > dvdrecord?  Can certain burners not handle files over 2G?
> > 
> > -Mike
> > 
> > 
> > P.S.  A corollary to the above, if just making data DVDs, what
> options
> > do yall typically give to mkisofs and dvdrecord?  I just want to
> know
> > if I'm missing something important before I really get into
> making a
> > lot of DVDs (and not more coasters).
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> 
> -- 
> Jeremy
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