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Description of problem: Brasero does not burn dual layer dvds Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.7.0 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run brasero 2. insert double layer empty disc 3. create a data to burn 4. try to burn Actual results: it says that medium is not writeable with current set of plugins Expected results: brasero should burn double layer dvd out of the box if dvd writer supports it Additional info: My brand new XPS 1330 laptop came with Ubuntu preinstalled on it and under ubuntu I was able to burn double layer dvd, but... I prefer to use Fedora, and after Fedora installation... I can't burn double layer dvds.
Were you able to burn DVD-DL on Ubuntu WITH brasero ?!?
yes. I've inserted a DL DVD-L disc into a dvd slot and brasero said "medium is writeable" so I burn dvd iso on it (dvd iso with ubuntu-dell-install.iso). Do you suggest that brasero is not able to burn double layer dvds? I cannot do that again, as I have installed Fedora instead of ubuntu. how can I burn double layer dvds on Fedora then?
Hmm, no this suggests to me that this is not a brasero problem, more related to the dvd burning backend (dvd+rw-tools). Do you happen to know what version of brasero you were using on Ubuntu ? On Fedora, have you tried burning a DVD using Nautilus (the file browser CD creator) ?
I am sure it was version 0.6.x (don't remember exact version number, but remember that I've checked version and it wasn't 0.7) - I had a problem with brasero 0.6.1 in my Fedora (on different laptop). I have two laptops: Dell D620 and recently I've bought XPS m1330. And it's a longer story: On D620 I was never able to burn double layer dvds, although K3b claims my dvd burner supports both DVD-R DL and DVD+R DL - I've tried to burn DL dvds using K3b, Nero for linux and Brasero - even nautilus was not able to detect correctly inserted dvd so I thought my dvd writer does not support dual layer writing. My friend borrowed me an usb external dvd writer (Samsung, can't remember exact model) and still - using this drive I was not able to burn DVD-R DL - so I thought Linux does not support dual layer writing and dropped the subject for couple of months. But when I got my new XPS m1330 laptop I just wanted to give a try and... surprise! it actually works, in Ubuntu, but not in Fedora. I am at work right now and don't have either D620 or XPS on me, so will do test later and will post results here.
Harald, does DVD-DL "just works" on F-8 ? Any thoughts on this ?
I did a test with DVD+R DL disc: brasero: doesn't want to burn, claims: the medium is not writeable with the current set of plugins (there is misspelled word in the message, it says "writable" instead of "writeable"), see screenshot. but, surprisingly nautilus was able to burn DVD+R DL disc... so bet there is something wrong with brasero...
Created attachment 294055 [details] brasero declines to burn dvd+r dl disc
ok. nautilus burnt a double layer dvd+r but could copy only 5.7 GB out of 7.2 GB written on the disc. I am starting another test right now.
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problem still exists in Fedora 10
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The OP did not mention whether braseri did use growisofs or wodim...... Note that wodim does not support to write DVDs at all as someone did replace a working DVD driver with something half baken. I recommend you to manually removed /usr/bin/wodim and similar as well as the symlinks and install recent original software instead: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ note that wodim is full of bugs that do not apply to the original software.
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I also have a dual layer dvd burner, my burner works flawlessly under Fedora 12 with DC,DVD or DVD-DL media. Fedora 13 reports "Please replace the disc with a supported CD or DVD" when I right click an ISO and select "Write to disc" with any type of DVD.
(In reply to comment #14) > I also have a dual layer dvd burner, my burner works flawlessly under Fedora 12 > with DC,DVD or DVD-DL media. > > Fedora 13 reports "Please replace the disc with a supported CD or DVD" when I > right click an ISO and select "Write to disc" with any type of DVD. Correction: my burner works flawlessly under Fedora 12 with CD, DVD or DVD-DL media.
I am not sure what you did, but I can verify that wodim definitely does not support to write Dual layer media. I recommend to use the original cdrecord.
I have now installed GnomeBaker (and dependency) in Fedora 13. I can burn dual layer DVDs again.
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unfortunately, on Fedora 14 wodim still does not burn double layer DVD's - had to install original cdrecord and burn DL-DVD using k3b - k3b detects cdrecord installed and prefers it over wodim, which is very handy.
That's the neverending story of cdrtools/cdrkit: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507108 Unfortunately for me the only thing that works on the 4 burners I have at home (2 laptops and a desktop with 2 burners) is cdrtools. Wodim (cdrkit), when it finishes burning, produces unreadable dvds 50% of the time; the percentage rises a bit more with DVD+R discs but there's not much difference. With dual layer dvds I have 50% of success in burning and always unreadable discs. Brasero almost never gives me a complete burn with no errors and crash when burning dvds. Cdroms, on the other hand, get burnt perfectly with brasero, wodim and cdrecord. Regards, --Simone
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just tested, still does not work in Fedora 17.
tested once again, still does not fixed in Fedora 17 the only way to get it working is to install K3b + cdrtools from http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html - this is the only way I can burn any dvds/dl dvds.
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Given the fact that cdrkit is unmaintained since May 2007 (none of the > 100 well known and well documented bugs has been fixed since than) and that growisofs did not produce a new version since March 2008, it is obvious that this problem is independent from a ferora version. I still don't understand why fedora still ships "cdrkit" that has several identified legality problems while the well maintained and fulle legal original project "cdrtools" is ignored. Is fedora uninterested on the problems of it's users?
Just tested on Fedora 19, brasero still does not burn double layer dvds... K3B using cdrecord (from cdrecord.berlios.de) works flawlessly.
Recent versions of cdrtools even implement support for fine grained privileges on Linux, so in case the related tools are installed, there are other ways to gain the needed privileges than using suid root.
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Still does not work...
As the problem exists because of the backend selected by Redhat, it is of course most unlikely that this problem will go away just by incrementing Redhat releases..... The problem is that Redhat left the OSS path and no longer ships existing maintained OSS. If Redhat did ship the original cdrtools and removed all changes to frontends that enforce their unmaintained buggy fork, als currently documented bugs in this area would go away.
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This bug is independent of Fedora releases as long as Fedora does not replace wodim by the original cdrtools software. wodim is unmaintained since May 2007 and did never support to write double layer DVDs. You need the original cdrecord in order to do so.
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In other words: RedHat insists in shipping the buggy wodim that cannot be legally distributed even though the legal original cdrtools exist and shipping cdrtools would fix the bug.
This bug is still present in Fedora 28, ten releases later than the OP. It is a pity and a shame for the Fedora community. I needed to burn an 8GB DVD bought a bunch of DVD+R_DL for the first time in my life and trashed the first one with the shitty wodim program, sneaking in maliciously under the disguise of "cdrecord" via two symlinks /usr/bin/cdrecord->/etc/alternatives/cdrecord->/usr/bin/wodim. I am using cdrecord (the original) since 1999 or so, and I thought it would be good to share my success story for the present story here, as the references given above are not all up to date. This was done on an up to date Fedora 28: $ wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdrtools/files/alpha/cdrtools-3.02a09.tar.bz2/download -O cdrtools-3.02a09.tar.bz2 $ tar xf wget cdrtools-3.02a09.tar.bz2/download $ cd cdrtools-3.02 $ gmake # Ignore the warnings / GNU make bug as indicated. No need to install Schily's smake. $ sudo ./cdrecord/OBJ/x86_64-linux-cc/cdrecord -eject $HOME/Scratch/dvd-dl.iso # Wait until it is done. Patiently. ;-) I checked the contents after mounting the DVD under /run/media, with (bash): $ nohup find /run/media/path/to/dvd -type f -exec md5sum {} \; > /tmp/dvd.md5 & $ sudo mount $HOME/Scratch/dvd-dl.iso /mnt $ nohup find /mnt -type f -exec md5sum {} \; > /tmp/iso.md5 & $ wait $ diff <(sed s/.mnt.// /tmp/iso.md5) <(sed s/.run.*dvd// /tmp/dvd.md5) And it confirmed what I experienced with cdrecord for almost twenty years now. It is very robust, universal, compatible and up to date software, which deserves being used as widely as possible. In 20 years on a handful of architectures and a dozen of OSes, I have never been deceived (as I was with wodim, who made me loose my first blank CD under Unix due to s/w incompatibility [and a lot of time in addition]). Final remark: Why is it so difficult to integrate the cdrecord package again into Fedora? It looks like an incompetent person, for some time in charge for packaging another distribution, led Fedora to ban cdrecord from its distro as well. I do not buy the licence argument. The copyright holder (J. Schily) explicitely asked you to include his software; that explicit statement preempts any potential licence issue (which obviously is a non-issue according to certain lawyers like those from Oracle, certainly not idiots or newcomers in the field). Please, Fedora packagers, make an effort (or tell me how I can help; making a regular RPM from the sources should not be an obstacle)!
I tried to get cdrtools back in Fedora a few years ago but ran into the same legal issue. Fedora Legal made the call so it's probably not going to change until something in the situation changes, namely the license.
There is no legal issue with cdrtools and there never has been such an issue. All Linux distros that asked their lawyers did finally discover that there was nothing than a pointless diffamation campaign from Debian. The results from Suse have been made available in the open by the Suse lawyer Ciaran Farrell who studied lay in Ireland and Germany and thus knowns common law and European law at the same time. The problem at Redhat is caused by a person called "Tom Callaway" that blocks this case even though there is no legal reason. If you like to get forward with your issue, you need to find w way to bypass "Tom Callaway".
F29 still the same.
Given that there is no attempt to fix that bug since more than 11 years, my impression is that Fedora is dead.