was Re: Alternative to k3b? now: DVD write is too slow

Bruce Labitt bruce.labitt at verizon.net
Sun Nov 13 21:52:01 EST 2005


mike ledoux wrote:

>On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 06:52:23PM -0500, Bruce Labitt wrote:
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>>Well, it may be able to read ok, but it sure still does not write ok.  
>>Did another k3b burn - average speed was 0.3x on a +R disk.
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>Yikes, that's slow.
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>>cdrdao will be run without root privileges
>>It is highly recommended to configure cdrdao to run with root privileges 
>>to increase the overall stability of the burning process.
>>Solution: Use K3bSetup to solve this problem.
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>Not sure.  cdrdao and cdrecord/dvdrecord are not able to write DVDs
>on my system at all, so I always make the ISO image with mkisofs and
>burn with growisofs.
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>Did you try running 'K3bSetup'?  If that doesn't do it, you might
>try running the whole burn process with root privs just to determine
>if that is the problem or not.
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This may seem silly, but exactly how does one invoke K3bSetup?  I don't 
seem to be able to get there from here.  Can I do it from the CLI? or 
from wiithin K3b?  Is it the same as Settings>Configure K3b... ?  When I 
try from the CLI it says command not found, this is the same if I 
execute from root or as user.  If I try it from Configure K3b, I get a 
window that says Configure external programs with a tab that says user 
parameters.  I suppose that is good, but I still don't know what 
parameter to set for cdrdao to run as root!

- Bruce



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