GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 614132
DVD+R (plus) and DVD+RW (plus) make problems with the option "Leave the disc open..."
Last modified: 2018-09-21 17:01:20 UTC
1) When I use a DVD-R (minus) or DVD-RW (minus) and want to burn a data-DVD Brasero offers the option to "Leave the disc open to add other files later". I can enable and also disable this feature. That's OK! 2) When I use a DVD+RW (plus; rewriteable) instead, the feature "Leave the disc open to add other files later" is always enabled and grey. So I can't disable it. That means - unlike to a DVD-RW (minus) - Brasero always burns a multisession DVD without finalising. 3) When I use a DVD+R (plus) instead, Brasero does not (!) offer the option to burn a multisession data-DVD. Unlike to a DVD-R (minus) Brasero always finalises the DVD+R after the first session. Conclusions: - Brasero works well with DVD-R (minus) and DVD-RW (minus). - Brasero has problems with DVD+RW (plus) and DVD+R (plus) concerning the option "Leave the disc open to add other files later". I tested with blank DVDs from Sony, Verbatim and Platinum. [Tested with Ubuntu Karmic Koala, brasero 2.28.2]
I can confirm the above (same version details etc) - thanks for wasting my discs! Why isn't this made obvious?...
^ Above refers to the common-sense assumption that burning a DVD+R data disc results in an open multisession disc.
DVD+RW (and BluRay) cannot be finalized, they work differently from CDs and DVDs-. They are more like hard disc in the sense that you can rewrite them wherever you want. They have no concept of sessions. So, as far as DVD+RW are concerned, they cannot be closed, never; brasero shows this by displaying the option as greyed but activated. As for DVD+R the fact that brasero does not offer any options is indeed a bug. What could help here is to run "brasero -g --brasero-media-debug > log 2>&1" in a terminal and attach the file called "log" to this bug please. I'll check that on my side.
I have created a test data disc in Brasero as instructed that I can confirm is finalised (k3b reports it is not appendable), see gzipped log. Note that I have also added to the bug at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592964#c3 , but it is Resolved Incomplete and I am a Bugzilla n00b, so I don't know how to reopen it as Akhil Laddha requests (I assume some emails have been sent out mind).
Created attachment 159542 [details] Brasero debug log - DVD+R data disc finalisation without permission
I can confirm that DVD+R get no option "leave disc open" displayed whatsoever. Subsequently, these burnt discs cannot be written to again by Brasero (no "multi-session"). Also lost a few discs on this because I figured out myself it would be something like the DVD+RW case where it is a discussion of terminology, not functionality, but seems I was wrong (Brasero has been playing this trick on me before though with BURN-proof on DVD+R(W)'s). As a user I think it cannot be expected of us to know all these technical details about our media. I mean, come on, it's just a DVD disc to us. Brasero should show the option, greyed out and enabled, and a tooltip should explain the situation why the option is greyed out. And make mention of DVD+R. I've just spent two hours looking for vanished features on all kinds of versions, which are as far as I can tell not even mentioned in the changelog.
i also faced the same problem. lost 2 disc because of this error.
Any news about this? I am using 3.10.0 (Ubuntu 14.04 64bit) and this bug is still present... It is very annoying that multi-session DVD+R can not be done, and years after years has passed and this is still UNCONFIRMED
UNCONFIRMED vs NEW means no difference in GNOME Bugzilla, and Brasero is basically unmaintained. Contributions (or maintainers) are welcome.
uhm unmaintained?! I thought that some sort of developing/maintaining was going on, as new releases are coming up (3.11 on 11-Sep-2014, 3.12 on 13-Nov-2014) ...and brasero is the official GNOME burning tool, it's not good is basically unmaintained...
(In reply to comment #10) > I thought that some sort of developing/maintaining was going on Sometimes somebody indeed does a maintenance release. That's not "development". > it's not good is basically unmaintained... Correct, in the same way that it's not good there's war on this world. :)
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