On 2006 September 25 21:18, Miark wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:03:53 -0600, Ron wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Some time back, just before I upgraded to 2006, I put an old > > TV card I had lying around in my Mandriva machine. My > > motherboard only has one analog audio input port, so I > > unplugged the audio cable from my DVD burner. I never watch > > movies on my PC (and don't know if the audio cable is needed > > for this anyway), and music CDs play fine without it. > > Audio cable is absolutely not required. I wonder, though, if > the presence of the TV card in your computer is having some > deleterious effect? I might try removing the TV card to see if > it makes any difference.
Yeah, I guess that's worth a shot. > > Around the same time, the burning of DVDs stopped working. > > Specifically, k3b reports success, but movie DVDs I burn will > > not play back, and on data DVDs I can only read the first > > 280MB or so of data, then nothing but I/O errors. CD burning, > > on the other hand, works just fine for both audio and data CDs. > > After a successful burn, have you tried reading the discs in a > drive _other_ than the one in which they were burned? Yeah, I tried the video DVDs on various DVD players, and the data DVDs on the DVD-ROM drive on one of my other computers. > > I tried two different brands of disks, one DVD-R and one > > DVD+R, same result. I tried limiting the speed to 2x, same > > result. I haven't seen anything on the list about k3b DVD > > burning being totally broken in 2006. > > It's not--I do it routinely. Well, that's good to know anyway 8^) > Miark Thanks, Ron -- Opinions are mine. Don't blame anyone else. Rely on them at your own risk. ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
