On December 15, 2004 11:52, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 15 Dec 2004 18:40, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 December 2004 19:15, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: > > > > Hi, it's still me. I've just tested K3b with 5 Philips CD.RWs. Same > > results. > > There are others who know a lot more about this than I do, but a quick > google suggests that you are far from alone in this problem, and k3b seems > to be the app most complained about. Have you tried XCDRoast? It isn't as > pretty as k3b, and you do have to run the setup as root before users can > use it, but I've generally found it reliable. There are some things done > easier in k3b, but that would buy you time while you troubleshoot this. > > Anne
I believe the cd burning problems I had were actually with cdrecord. k3b is just a GUI front-end, to make it easier to set up what you want burned. It is cdrecord that does the heavy lifting, and returns the obscure error messages when something goes wrong. So make sure you've installed the latest version of cdrecord from http://www.eslrahc.com/ Also, make sure you don't have anything else running that's causing cpu or disk contention, as that can easily cause a buffer underflow, especially on older machines. Even burnfree, if you have it, doesn't seem to be all it's cracked up to be. It may prevent an audio cd from being totally destroyed by a buffer underrun, but as far as I can tell from the results, all it does is insert blank spots instead. The resulting cds are not particularly pleasant to listen to. Personally, I've never found the brand of media to make any difference at all. I even had some older cd-rws rated to a max of 4x, and k3b/cdrecord were smart enough to step down the write speed appropriately. Oh, and if the first two cds fail, you can be pretty sure the third, fourth and fifth will too :^). -- Ron ron dot hunterduvar at shaw dot ca Opinions expressed here are all mine. "As you know, necessity is the mother of invention. I don't know who the father is. Remorse, I guess." - Red Green
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