Hi, Richard Shaw wrote: > When I use dvd+rw-mediainfo I see > several different capacaities. Obviously if you use the formatting > with defect management then you're going to loose some capacity, but > the output is not clear which one is the correct. You probably mean something like this: Mounted Media: 41h, BD-R SRM Media ID: CMCMAG/BA5 ... READ FORMAT CAPACITIES: unformatted: 12219392*2048=25025314816 00h(3000): 11826176*2048=24220008448 32h(0): 11826176*2048=24220008448 32h(0): 5796864*2048=11871977472 32h(0): 12088320*2048=24756879360 It is an overview of sizes from which you could choose. 00h and 32h are the Format Codes for the SCSI command FORMAT UNIT. (3000) is the size of the Spare Area in hexadecimal numbers counting clusters of 64 KiB. (Cough.) For some reason my burners report (0) with the format code 32h by which i could choose a particular payload size. I read different prescriptions in MMC-5 specs. Shrug. 12219392*2048=25025314816 tells the number of payload blocks, the block size 2048, and the number of payload bytes. The command dvd+rw-format -ssa=256m /dev/sr0 would choose 256 MiB Spare Area and 24756879360 payload bytes. ("256m" computed from (25025314816 - 24756879360) / 1024 /1024 ) You may issue own size wishes with a granularity of 16 MiB. I am not sure whether very small Spare Area sizes below 256 MiB are supported. xorriso would report by xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 -list_formats a similar list Format idx 0 : 00h , 11826176s , 23098.0 MiB Format idx 1 : 32h , 11826176s , 23098.0 MiB Format idx 2 : 32h , 5796864s , 11322.0 MiB Format idx 3 : 32h , 12088320s , 23610.0 MiB and allow choosing by xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 -format by_index_3 or xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 -format by_size_23610m Other size wishes may be submitted. > It seems that brasero can use libburn but I have had no luck in > getting brasero to actually burn. It recognizes the disc, tells me if > I'm over capacity or not, but just will not burn. Should I try > bumping up the priority for the plugin for libburn ? I cannot tell much about Brasero. My problem as user is that i do not have the Gnome stuff that is needed for recent versions. My problem as backend developer is that i cannot get in contact with Brasero developers who would know about its usage of the backends. > blu-ray > video working (at least as well as it can without UDF 2.5 write > support). Can your tools help me there? I am not aware of tools to produce UDF 2.50. mkisofs/genisoimage create UDF 1.02, afaik. Maybe you get lucky with the Linux kernel capability to mount UDF read-write. It will be at least more modern than 1.02. I.e. create large file (by truncate -s, qemu-img, ...), format by mkudffs, mount -o loop -t udf, then cp into it what you need, umount, burn file to BD-R. DVD video and BD video would be an interesting topic for me to explore (UDF specs are public and free, but sooo awful to read). I roughly know what mkisofs writes into its ISO 9660/UDF hybrid filesystems. I lack of testers resp. test equipment, though. A BD player and a bunch of factory made DVDs and Blu-rays would be a good start. But which player and whose Blu-rays are sufficiently standards compliant to serve as reference ? The risk is to buy some overly tolerant embedded Linux which would play any kind of video file from any kind of filesystem. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org