On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 09:14, Darryl Gregorash wrote:

B. Stia wrote:

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Hello SuSE people

Runniing 9.2. Ripped and converted an old movie DVD. When I try to burn the image, I get the following: --------------------------------------------------------- EasyStreet:/ # growisofs -Z /media/dvdrecorder -dvd-video /newlinux/output/ :-( unable to open64("/media/dvdrecorder",O_RDONLY): No medium found EasyStreet:/ # ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There is a blank CD+R in the dvdrecorder. What am I doing wrong here?

Is that drive mounted read-only? Try remounting it read-write, or umount it and write to /dev/dvd instead.

Hi, CD or DVD tools like cdrecord and others, process on unmounted media. Mount-options are (afaik) are just for normal file operations, packet-writing on UDF.... Blank media have no file-system, thus can not be mounted at all. Hans

On Sunday 06 March 2005 03:17, Ti Kan wrote:

You need to use -Z /dev/dvd instead of -Z /media/dvdrecorder. Also, you probably need a DVD+/-R disc instead of CD+R.

Thanks Ti, That did it for me. The CD+R was a brain lapse (senility you know) Meant to say DVD+R. Thought at first it was an automount problem because as soon a I put in a blank media disk k3b would open and I would have to close it. (Really too bad k3b can't do this stuff yet) Congratulations to me! Burnt my first ever movie DVD using the reliable old CLI without encryption and will play in any player I put it in. I know there are already a lot of people doing this, but if others really want to know how to do this, I will be happy to supply the how-to that I used and the sources for the programs used. Thanks Joe Morris & Packman !! Bob S.............(very pleased with himself - new Milestone for him ) :-)

On Monday 07 March 2005 10:05, Richard wrote:

On Monday 07 March 2005 01:21 am, B. Stia wrote:

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Congratulations to me!  Burnt my first ever movie DVD using the reliable old CLI without encryption and will play in any player I put it in.

I know there are already a lot of people doing this, but if others really want to know how to do this, I will be happy to supply the how-to that I used and the sources for the programs used.  Thanks Joe Morris & Packman !!

Bob, I would like to see your howto and I'm sure others are equally interested. Why not post it here?

OK, for those requesting it. FIRST of all this is NOT my how-to. Found it on the web after much searching. It is attached as a text file. If the attachment should get munged the original can be found at http://kavlon.org/index.php/dvdbackup A few comments though. The author names the tools needed. Some are already on your SuSE disk. Others can be found using apt or directly on the ftp.gwdg.de site, both 32 & 64 bit versions (Packman & suser-jmorris) I needed an additional program, mjpeg-tools, which I got from the same sources. The author also states that you should have about 30 GB of space. While I am sure that may be true of the newer dual-layer DVD's, I did it in a partition with only 7.5 GB and had plenty of room. What I did was to delete a built package after it was no longer needed, thereby freeing space for the next operation. I didn't shrink the file because what I had was smaller than 4.7GB. I did go through the steps though just to see what happens. The author is a little unclear (to me anyway) under the "Preparing" session. You will need to create a file called "dvd.xml" by inserting the text he has provided in the how-to. Just open up kwrite, create it, and save it. I just put this little file in the directory where I was doing the building. Have fun guys and gals. I sure did. Bob S.