I recently obtained a two DVD+-RW DL burners and decided to test them by trying to burn a copy of Monster's Inc (which is a DVD we own that is a DL disk) They are the Plextor DVDR PX-750A and the DVD-RW drive that comes with the SONY VIAO VGN-SZ160P.
I used dd if=/dev/dvd of=DVD.iso bs=2048 to make the ISO, and growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=DVD.iso to burn it. There were no reported errors at all during the burning process. I can mount the burned disks on the either of the Dl DVD+-RW drives that did burning, but my oldest DVD drive (which is only a DVD-RW single layer burner) thinks there is no media there (it can play commerical DL DVDs just fine). I can play the ISO image with xine no problem and I have used "diff" to verify that 1) The ISO and the burned DVDs movie are the same But I cannot play the burned DVDs as video anywhere, including the drives that burned it one (with either windows or linux) On windows or a commercial stand-alone DVD player I get a frozen scene from one of the previews with a stuttering text that loops after a few minutes. With either xine or totem it reports that this DVD is encrypted and recommends that I install libdvdcss. I have libdvdccs installed and it is what I use to watch most commercial DVDs that I watch. Additional info. dvd+rw-mediainfo reports "Media Book Type: 01h, DVD-ROM book [revision 1]" for both the burned DVD and original, so I don't think using "dvd+rw-booktype -dvd-rom -media /dev/scdN" from Andy Polyakov's DVD+RW tools webpage will work (I have not tried it though) It seems clear that in terms of data and filesystems, I am burning DVD-9s (DL DVDs) just fine, but not from a video playing point of veiw. Does anyone know what is going on and how I can fix it? regards brett stevens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
