Multimedia support in kde4 after recent update

[philld]

After the update the other day (have been running kde4 for about a month update daily), the following problems are noted with various "archiving" applications:

K3b - no longer writes to dual layer media - get the message "Growisofs >= 5.20 is needed to write Dual Layer DVD+R"

brasero - does not recognize the DVD unit

k9copy wizard - causes a kde crash after selecting the from and to media

Grafburn - when doing a DVD to DVD copy, quits immediately without reading the DVD with the message that it can't fine /home/tempfile.iso

Although not multi-media - kde crash - collects the backtrace and prompts if want to add more info which I respond yes to and then tells me there is not sufficient information to submit a report so how do I get the debug report submitted?

[philld]

Today's update of k3b has not corrected the problem of trying to copy to a Dual layer DVD - still get the same error as above.

[philld]

Making baby steps on this one.  After performing the latest updates I have been able to write to a single layer dvd (copied several files from my hard drive to the dvd) and all went well.  Could read and playback the dvd on both my linux and windows machines.  Got the courage up to again try a dual layer again tried to copy files from my hard drive to the dvd and although it wrote the DVD, files are not recognized on either the linux or windows machine.  So still some more patches it look likes needed.

[gallup]

I hope you will post any solutions you find on this, following you on this myself.
My trouble is mainly with k9copy to make backups of my dvd collection. Starts to decode and simply crashes with same results you stated.
This is on standard dvd, not dual layer. Still going back to kde3.5 for this work.

[Texstar]

Have you looked at dvd95 as an alternative since you say k9copy isn't working for you?

[gallup]

I will look into that, didn't know that dv95 existed. Not finding it in synaptic, is this something new that is coming soon?
I did a search in synaptic and dv95 didn't list anything at all.
 Really like k9 copy and the new format looked promising, just not working.
My kids miss it too as I don't let them have original dvd's to watch on trips or in their rooms, they are young and hard on stuff!

thank for the lead Tex

[JohnW_57]

The package is dvd95 in synaptic. 

JohnW

[philld]

Gallup - I haven't found a one-stop solution but have a method to produce the dvd.  My finding with k3b if I try to do everything with that software is if it is a single layer disk that you are creating then the resultant disk is readable by Linux, Windows and the DVD player.  However, for a dual layer disk - if I put it back in my machine my only option is to copy it with k3b - I cannot read it otherwise.  It is not readable in my Windows machine nor the DVD player.  So, my workaround is:
1) create an ISO image - depending on what I am doing that is done with DeVeDe if creating a DVD or Brasero if I want to copy files
2) use k3b to burn the image

[coffeetime]

Have you looked at dvd95 as an alternative since..?

Thank you!

[gallup]

K9 is working for me on standard dvd's, will have to try out philld methods on dual layer, thanks for the input. I think my problem with k9 was actually settings in k3b being different than default settings were in kde3.5 version. I never had to change anything with kde 3.5 version of k3b, just worked. Talk about a lot of reboots to look at any possible setting differences in the two versions. I think I am all kde4 now, no reason to go back. (sounds like something I said about M$ a while back). Good info in this thread, thanks to all for the input, and philld for starting it out.

[philld]

Gave k3b another try today since its been some time and though there might be a fix in for the problem.  I had two DVD structures on my harddrive that I wanted to burn to DVD media.  Opened up k3b, started a new DVD project , identified the VIDEO_TS directory for burning.  The single layer was readable by Windows (all is good), the dual layer was not recognized by Windows but did play in the DVD player attached to the TV (not so good).  Looks like there is still some work needed for the k3b app.