OT Re: On the use of DVD recordable media (was: Re: DVD+R writing problems)

2005-08-19 Thread Wackojacko
> This whole +/- thing is stupid. So, what, now they're going to do it > again, worse, with HDDVD/BlueRay or whatever? Peh. I'm unfortunately not up to date with the new technologies that are coming. If you could describe their differences in a simple way, I'd be very grateful. I'm not well ve

Re: On the use of DVD recordable media (was: Re: DVD+R writing problems)

2005-08-19 Thread Brendon Lloyd Higgins
Rogério Brito wrote (Thursday 18 August 2005 5:14 pm): > On Aug 17 2005, Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote: > > Rogério Brito wrote (Sunday 14 August 2005 2:06 pm): > > > Anyway, just out of curiosity: are you able to read all the DVD discs > > > that you burn on regular computer or standalone drives? I

Re: DVD+R writing problems

2005-08-19 Thread Brendon Lloyd Higgins
csj wrote (Thursday 18 August 2005 1:46 pm): > On 17. August 2005 at 11:55AM +1000, > > I may well do that, but isn't it weird that the same drive can > > burn to those same discs fine in Windows but not Debian? > > Not at all. Most free software available for GNU/Linux is > reverse-engineered. Th

Re: On the use of DVD recordable media (was: Re: DVD+R writing problems)

2005-08-18 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Brendon. First of all, thank you very much for your reply. On Aug 17 2005, Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote (Sunday 14 August 2005 2:06 pm): > > Anyway, just out of curiosity: are you able to read all the DVD discs > > that you burn on regular computer or standalone drives?

Re: DVD+R writing problems

2005-08-17 Thread csj
On 17. August 2005 at 11:55AM +1000, Brendon Lloyd Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > csj wrote (Sunday 14 August 2005 10:38 pm): > > Brendon Lloyd Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Recently I upgraded my disc burner to a LiteOn SOHW-1693S Dual > > > Format Double Layer DVD burner. I've b

Re: On the use of DVD recordable media (was: Re: DVD+R writing problems)

2005-08-16 Thread Brendon Lloyd Higgins
Rogério Brito wrote (Sunday 14 August 2005 2:06 pm): > Anyway, just out of curiosity: are you able to read all the DVD discs that > you burn on regular computer or standalone drives? I have only had success > when using DVD-R media, not with the other variants (DVD+RW or DVD-RW; I > don't have DVD+

Re: DVD+R writing problems

2005-08-16 Thread Brendon Lloyd Higgins
csj wrote (Sunday 14 August 2005 10:38 pm): > Brendon Lloyd Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Recently I upgraded my disc burner to a LiteOn SOHW-1693S Dual > > Format Double Layer DVD burner. I've been trying it out but > > I've run into problems trying to burn DVD+R discs. Of the 50 or > > s

Re: DVD+R writing problems

2005-08-14 Thread csj
On 10. August 2005 at 10:50AM +1000, Brendon Lloyd Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently I upgraded my disc burner to a LiteOn SOHW-1693S Dual > Format Double Layer DVD burner. I've been trying it out but > I've run into problems trying to burn DVD+R discs. Of the 50 or > so tries so far (

On the use of DVD recordable media (was: Re: DVD+R writing problems)

2005-08-13 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 14 2005, Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote: > Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote (Wednesday 10 August 2005 10:50 am): > > Do note that the problem only seems to be with DVD+R discs. CD-R, > > CD-RW, and DVD+RW writing is fine (although consistently slower than > > advertised, this is probably a different

Re: DVD+R writing problems

2005-08-13 Thread Brendon Lloyd Higgins
Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote (Wednesday 10 August 2005 10:50 am): > Recently I upgraded my disc burner to a LiteOn SOHW-1693S Dual Format > Double Layer DVD burner. I've been trying it out but I've run into problems > trying to burn DVD+R discs. Of the 50 or so tries so far (many with > different di