I'm not sure if this is a slack issue or not (hence the ?), but I've recently
started having strange issues burning large dvd files.....

I do quite a bit of video work, and regularly end up with 3 or 4 GB files that
I have to burn to DVD. Recently I've started getting peculiar problems when
burning large files using k3b. The process appears to proceed correctly and
exit at the end (takes about the right amount of time), but when I mount the
resulting dvd under Linux, I can only see a very small file - typically 1 or 2
MB (about 5 or 10 secs worth of video!).

The file looks like this on both my machines.

However, if I look at the dvd under windoze, the whole file is present and
correct! Only linux appears unable to see it! DVDs burned under windoze are
recognized fine under Linux!

I'm running Slackware-10 (current), K3B-0.11.17, dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8 and
kernel 2.6.7.

It occurs identically on two machines (AMD Athlon 2600 xp with an LG-4040 dvd
re-writer and an amd64 laptop with a Matshita dvd rewriter). This indicates
that its not a hardware issue. Its only recently I've become aware of the
problem, so I suspect one of the updates is broken, but which?

Any ideas, anyone?

TIA,

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Peter Christy wrote:
> problem, so I suspect one of the updates is broken, but which?

can you undo them one by one, and see?

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Joost Kremers wrote:

> can you undo them one by one, and see?

Only if I can find the previous versions, which, like an idiot, I think I've
deleted.....

I was hoping someone else had run into this problem so that I could compare
notes. At the moment, I can't determine if its a read issue or a write
issue.....!

One other clue - If I write a pre-prepared .iso file, everything is recognised
fine in whatever operating system, however big the file! I'm beginning to look
suspiciously at growisofs......

Looks like I'm going to have to do more digging! I can see a long week-end
coming up....!

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