PeasyDisc CD/DVD/BR Tools

[rcrsn51]

Thanks. Here is a second test instead of using Advanced > Write.

1. Run Advanced > Make an ISO.
2. Run Basic > Burn an ISO.

This method uses a slightly different set of parameters. Does the disc still play?

[sheldonisaac]

Thanks. Here is a second test instead of using Advanced > Write.

1. Run Advanced > Make an ISO.
2. Run Basic > Burn an ISO.

This method uses a slightly different set of parameters. Does the disc still play?

I may not have time to do the tests at the moment with a savefile.
Will try it now, as before, with your new instructions, no savefile.

1. ISO saved in a few seconds as newiso.iso

2. cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150
Writing pregap for track 1 at -150
Starting new track at sector: 0
bla bla
Writing time: 156.969s
Avg spd 3.1x
Fixating
bla bla
Press Enter

Tried loading the disc twice into the Samsung player: it keeps saying "NO DISC"

Don't have time for further tests until this evening.

Disc plays fine in the CD-RW drive on my computer.

Thanks much,
Sheldon

[rcrsn51]

OK. Your first test using Advanced > Write creates a temporary ISO using "mkisofs -r -J -f", then burns it with "cdrecord -multi -data". This combination should be most compatible with devices like your player.

Your second test uses "mkisofs -r -D -isolevel 4 -f" and "cdrecord -dao -data". This one is designed to work in Linux-compatible situations.

So I'm not surprised that your first test worked and the second one failed.

[zigbert]

rcrsn51
Thank you for your cooperation.
It seems we agree on the mkisofs/cdrecord attributes.

Your second test uses "mkisofs -r -D -isolevel 4 -f" and "cdrecord -dao -data". This one is designed to work in Linux-compatible situations.

If I got it right, this one is also the one that will work for windows XP/7/8.


Sigmund

[edoc]

Built a slide show with music yesterday & 2.6 worked really well, thanks!

Next is some video editing.

Lots of computer changes here so my testing has been delayed.

Thanks again!

[rcrsn51]

Built a slide show with music yesterday & 2.6 worked really well

Excellent. Your next project is to simply glue some video clips into a movie, burn it to DVD and verify that it plays.

Then we can look at adding still images.

Be aware that PeasyDisc cannot do any fancy effects like fading. But there is a basic cropping tool under Video3.

[Flash]

I tried to use PeasyDisc in Precise Puppy to burn a backup of my favorite DVDs to a rewritable Blu-Ray disc. Here's what happened: Nothing.

If it makes you feel any better, Pburn does the same thing, only it fakes burning for half the Blu-Ray disk before stopping and giving essentially the same error message as PeasyDisc did. PeasyDisc tells me right away that it won't work.

I assumed that I didn't need to blank the BD-RE disc before telling PeasyDisc to burn the folder containing 5 x 4.4 GB iso files onto it. ROX says the total size of the folder I was trying to burn is 22 GB.

[rcrsn51]

In the terminal window, you can see the reference to genisoimage. The optical burning tools in Precise cannot handle files greater than 4 GB. You need to use a Puppy that has the appropriate tools. See the discussion about Blu-ray on Page 3.

[Flash]

Thanks!

[rcrsn51]

It may be possible to upgrade Precise to handle large files. Go into /usr/bin and locate three files - genisoimage, mkisofs and growisofs. Some of them may be symlinks. Then go into Upup Raring and find the matching files. Copy them from Raring to Precise.

[OscarTalks]

Is PeasyDisc trying to execute genisoimage directly or mkisofs?

In Precise, mkisofs is a symlink to genisoimage (from the old cdrkit package I believe).

My cdrtools-3 package for Precise contains a mkisofs which is a real file. You could try installing that. I compiled it as a dependency for upgrading to latest pBurn and you can download it from here:-
http://yadi.sk/d/zTshLczR4wHj8

The growisofs file is part of a different package, dvd+rwtools, which I thought was already in Precise. I did compile it from source for Wheezy because it seemed to be missing or not working properly in 3.5.2.7 and I believe it is now included in 3.5.2.8. Did you compile those that you posted, rcrsn51?

[rcrsn51]

In Precise, mkisofs is a symlink to genisoimage (from the old cdrkit package I believe)

Correct.

Is PeasyDisc trying to execute genisoimage directly or mkisofs?

PeasyDisc only ever calls mkisofs. In Precise, that gets you genisoimage. However, in Flash's situation, it is growisofs that is calling genisoimage, not PeasyDisc.

The growisofs file is part of a different package, dvd+rwtools, which I thought was already in Precise.

It is. But some versions of growisofs are built to use cdrkit instead of cdrtools. These ones cannot process large files.

I did compile it from source for Wheezy because it seemed to be missing or not working properly in 3.5.2.7 and I believe it is now included in 3.5.2.8. Did you compile those that you posted, rcrsn51?

Even if you compile dvd+rwtools from source against cdrtools, it will still not work properly with Blu-ray. There are patches in the Debian repo that fix an assortment of problems. My builds of growisofs contain them.

[Flash]

I'd be glad to test it, but it's not clear to me what I need to do.

Since I run Puppy from a multisession DVD, I'm not married to a particular version of Puppy. It's no trouble at all for me to switch to a different version. I could download the latest version of Slacko, if you think that's the version of Puppy most likely to have the tools to do what I want, burn it to a DVD-RW and try it out. If it works, then I'd know that Slacko has all the right stuff. I'd be willing then to try to upgrade Precise Puppy just to see if it could be done.

So which version of Puppy is most likely to be able to burn >4GB files, do you think? And, assuming I find one that works, what I do then, to upgrade Precise Puppy?

FWIW, I'm pretty sure I tried to burn a 24 GB file to a BD-RE disk with Pburn in Fatdog64-602 and it didn't work, so Fatdog may also have the old toolkit.

[rcrsn51]

If you are currently using Precise, go up three posts and get Oscar's cdrtools package. Then go to page 3 and get my growisofs_slacko56-7.1.pet.

FWIW, I'm pretty sure I tried to burn a 24 GB file to a BD-RE disk with Pburn in Fatdog64-602 and it didn't work, so Fatdog may also have the old toolkit.

The latest Fatdog just needs the 64-bit growisofs package from page 3.

[Flash]

If you are currently using Precise, go up three posts and get Oscar's cdrtools package. Then go to page 3 and get my growisofs_slacko56-7.1.pet

Okay, that's what I did and the 22 GB folder is burning as I type this. Looks like it will take an hour an a half to finish (The disk is a BD-RE which can only burn at 2x). Assuming it finishes the whole enchilada, I'll do the 24 GB file next. Maybe I'll try that one in Pburn to see if your growisofs package and Oscar's cdrtools package fixed that too.

I've never seen Oscar's download site before. That's a lot of good stuff.

[Flash]

Rats, It didn't work. Now PeasyDisk does the same thing as Pburn; it burns about half the job then quits. I tried burning the same folder twice because the first time PeasyDisk quit, the drive it was reading from mysteriously unmounted itself and changed its name on the desktop. So I remounted it and tried again. This time the drive stayed mounted, but PeasyDisk again stopped about halfway through the job.

Next I plan to try burning onto a different BD-RE. Maybe this one is bad, though I don't know that the drive monitors the disk on the fly during the burn.

[rcrsn51]

Try burning the files one at a time.

1. Drag the first file into the input box and select New.
2. When done, drag in the second file and select Add.

These files are on a USB drive? I had problems with this.

the drive it was reading from mysteriously unmounted itself and changed its name on the desktop

If for some reason, Precise lost contact with the USB drive, then the burn would definitely fail. This would NOT be caused by PeasyDisc.

[Ted Dog]

@Flash that what my BluRay drive did just before it stopped working and needed my tshirt finger fix also can't download the growisofs pet got a 403 error a few pages back.

[Flash]

Try burning the files one at a time.

1. Drag the first file into the input box and select New.
2. When done, drag in the second file and select Add.

Okay, but it might be a while. At the moment I'm low-level blanking the BD-RE I was using, to see if it gets all the way through.

These files are on a USB drive? I had problems with this.

They're on an external USB3 hard disk drive. I don't have an internal hard disk drive in this computer. But I get the same error in another computer with an internal hard disk.

@Flash that what my BluRay drive did just before it stopped working and needed my tshirt finger fix

Well, I've gotten the same result from two different Blu-Ray burner drives. They're less than two years old and neither of them has seen much use. Hard to believe they'd fail that quickly, though the first DVD burner I got, one of the original Sony DVD burners, failed shortly after it was a year old and I don't think I burned more than 10 disks with it.

also can't download the growisofs pet got a 403 error a few pages back.

Which one, the Fatdog or Slacko? They're not very big. I could attach one to a PM.

[Ted Dog]

both, versions please. also could be a dust speck on disc. Bluray, is much more sensitive than dvd. I keep mine uber clean the older Bluray has about 6Tbytes burned before it acted blknd and needed a tsbirt cleaning.