Re: DVD burning and reading

moumunna Raychaudhuri <mou_munna-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.kolkata
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I was out of station so I could not answer.
The answers to your questions are
1) I  burnt data DVDs with K3b. 
2) "unable to read" means linux does not mount it. In fact after a try to mount the DVD, linux remains silent.

Thanks
Biplab


--- On Wed, 10/12/08, Atanu Datta <lfyedit2-uJJ40MrDi5lWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Atanu Datta <lfyedit2-uJJ40MrDi5lWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Ilug-cal-discuss] DVD burning and reading
> To: ilug-cal-discuss-PMNjqutUrVNkNBGiPgg+Odi2O/[email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, 10 December, 2008, 2:47 PM
> On Tuesday 09 December 2008 15:16:29 Sayamindu Dasgupta
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:44 PM, moumunna Raychaudhuri
> >
> > <mou_munna-/[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Dear Members
> > > I recently observed the following facts about DVD
> burning in Linux
> > > through K3b. In some of the DVD's I burned 
> using K3b, the result shows
> > > that it is successful. But when I tried to read
> it in Linux, either
> > > nothing happens. Most often those DVDs are
> readable by WINDOWS!! Even
> > > they can be read by DVD players if  I burn songs
> in that.
> > >
> > > Why does this happen? Where is the fault? Why
> cannot linux  read DVDs it
> > > burned while windows can? Thanks
> > >
> > > Biplab
> >
> > Take a look at the output of dmesg. Sometimes it has
> interesting
> > information which may provide you with some clue as to
> what is
> > happening under the hood.
> 
> Yes, I'm also interested in knowing the dmesg output.
> Have been using K3b for 
> years and never faced a problem like this. 
> 
> Also, what kinda DVDs are you burning? DVD movies? And when
> you say Linux is 
> unable to read the DVD media, do you mean it even fails to
> mount it? Or is it 
> just that your media player fails to play it?
> 
> Best,
> Atanu
> 
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