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Is there a preferred cd/dvd burner to use with Mint?

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Is there a preferred cd/dvd burner to use with Mint?

Post by ve5pj » Wed May 04, 2016 2:43 am

I have tried 4 different cd/dvd burners trying to get Mint to read and burn dvd’s but had no success.It identifies the drives ok and will eject disks but will not read or burn dvd’s.It just says «no Media inserted». Can you help please.I have tried DVD+ Dvd- and DVD RW’s but no joy on any.Drives work fine on my windows machine but no luck on Mint.My cd burners work well on Mint,just not my cd/dvd burners.Thank you.

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Re: Is there a preferred cd/dvd burner to use with Mint?

Post by jimallyn » Wed May 04, 2016 4:22 am

Any CD/DVD drive should work. The people who can help you with this will probably want to know which version of Mint you are using (13? 17? 17.3?) and which desktop environment you are using (XFCE? Mate? Cinnamon? KDE?). Which desktop environment may be important because different desktop environments use different default burning software.

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Re: Is there a preferred cd/dvd burner to use with Mint?

Post by Cosmo. » Wed May 04, 2016 4:27 am

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Post by enfield » Sun May 08, 2016 9:38 am

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Post by richyrich » Sun May 08, 2016 10:15 am

Re: Is there a preferred cd/dvd burner to use with Mint?

Post by Cosmo. » Sun May 08, 2016 12:01 pm

enfield wrote: For burning software, Brasero has always done everything I’ve asked it to do. Mint 17.3 Mate.

The problem in this context is the backend, which Brasero uses. This can be exchanged, but in case of Brasero this will break other things.

The backend, which is installed by default, is called cdrkit. This is since a very long time not more maintained, so the likelihood, that it does not work with current media, increases. It sounds, as if this is the case for you.

As said, this backend could get exchanged, but this will most likely break Brasero completely. The alternatives are K3b (my recommendation) or Xfburn.

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Re: Is there a preferred cd/dvd burner to use with Mint?

Post by Ceilidh2 » Tue May 10, 2016 5:22 am

So far as I know, none of the available cd/dvd burners will rip a protected dvd. But if ripping is not what you are trying to do, then xfburn works for me.

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Re: Is there a preferred cd/dvd burner to use with Mint?

Post by phd21 » Tue May 10, 2016 4:33 pm

I just read your post and the good replies to it. Here are my thoughts on this as well.

It would help to know more about your system setup. If you run » inxi -Fxzd » from the console terminal prompt, highlight the results, copy and paste them back here, that should provide enough information.

As far as I know, any DVD burner should work, including USB external DVD burners. I have an internal DVD drive and a USB external DVD burner and both work well. Obviously, the internal drives have to fit the connectors for your computer, or you have to buy an adapter. On my older computer without the normal Sata connectors that today’s computers have, I had to get an IDE to Sata adapter, and it works, probably not as fast as it would with a true Sata connection.

Are you saying that you are dual booting, and that the same physical DVD burner drives are working in MS Windows, but not in Linux Mint? There would be no logical real reason for this to be happening, if that is what you are stating.

As others have also suggested, the two best DVD/CD software applications are «xfburn» and «K3b», so I would highly recommend that you use one of these.

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Re: Is there a preferred cd/dvd burner to use with Mint?

Post by shmuelakam » Thu Jun 16, 2016 4:27 pm

I’m having a very similar issue. My CD burners tend to stop working after burning a few CDs. I have tried Brasero AND K3b.

To make a clean slate, I did a clean install of 17.3, and bought two new Samsung burners. When I try burning a CD, K3B just hangs and nothing gets burnt. I would be most grateful if I could resolve this issue. I burn a LOT of CDs and this has me stuck in the middle of a project.

Here is the «inxi -Fxzd» output:

System: Host: home-sak Kernel: 3.19.0-32-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.8.2) Desktop: MATE 1.12.0 (Gtk 3.10.8~8+qiana) Distro: Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa Machine: Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P8H77-M PRO v: Rev X.0x Bios: American Megatrends v: 0416 date: 02/15/2012 CPU: Quad core Intel Core i5-3550 (-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 26401 clock speeds: max: 3700 MHz 1: 1601 MHz 2: 1798 MHz 3: 1669 MHz 4: 1608 MHz Graphics: Card: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0 Display Server: X.Org 1.17.1 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Desktop GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.5.9 Direct Rendering: Yes Audio: Card-1 Intel 7 Series/C210 Series Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 Card-2 Logitech Webcam C270 driver: USB Audio usb-ID: 001-002 Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.19.0-32-generic Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: Drives: HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (12.6% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_DT01ACA1 size: 1000.2GB Optical-1: /dev/sr0 model: TSST CDDVDW SH-224FB rev: SB00 dev-links: cdrom Features: speed: 40x multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running Optical-2: /dev/sr1 model: TSST CDDVDW SH-224FB rev: SB00 dev-links: N/A Features: speed: 48x multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running Partition: ID-1: / size: 910G used: 111G (13%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.47GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5 RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8C mobo: 27.8C Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A Info: Processes: 181 Uptime: 9:05 Memory: 1283.4/7872.2MB Init: Upstart runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.4 Client: Shell (bash 4.3.111) inxi: 2.2.28 

Re: Is there a preferred cd/dvd burner to use with Mint?

Post by Cosmo. » Thu Jun 16, 2016 6:01 pm

The problem might be the backend, that gets used by k3b. The by default installed backend is cdrkit, a package, that is since long not more maintained. cdrkit is in fact a fork of cdrtools, which is still in active development. The reason, that Ubuntu (and it’s derivates) use cdrkit is purely a licensing issue, not a technical one. The lack of maintenance for cdrkit can lead to the result, that it cannot handle current media.

For cdrecord the PPA ppa:brandonsnider/cdrtools is needed. By installing the packages cdrecord, mkisofs and cdda2wav the packages wodim, genisoimage and icedax (belonging to cdrkit) get automatically removed.

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Re: Is there a preferred cd/dvd burner to use with Mint?

Post by slipstick » Thu Jun 16, 2016 6:14 pm

I am using the Cinnamon DE, but I use Xfburn, the Xfce disk burner because it works better than Brasero, at least for me. It installed and operates with no problems on Cinnamon — I would expect it would do the same on MATE.
Here’s another thread on the subject:
viewtopic.php?f=90&t=223045#p1173976

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Re: Is there a preferred cd/dvd burner to use with Mint?

Post by phd21 » Thu Jun 16, 2016 6:49 pm

I just read your post and the good replies to it. Here are my thoughts on this as well.

Personally speaking, «K3b» is the best Linux DVD program I have tried. But, it is a «KDE» application, so if you are not using Linux Mint KDE, then you have to install a few simple files (KDE dependencies) so that it will work well for your edition of Linux Mint (see quote box below).

I have two inexpensive DVD drives, an internal «ASUS DRW-24B1ST», and an USB external LG Super Multi Drive GP08LU30 (lightscribe), and they both work really well. I have burned disc after disc (CD or DVD) on either one with «K3b» and have not had any issues. I wish I had the newer Blu-Ray DVD burner drives, but for DVD burners these work well. They are available on Amazon.com for around $20-$30 us.

If you have burned a few discs that are ok, and are having issues with another, logout and log back in, try it again. Or, open (eject) the disc in the drive and re-insert the disc again. I read that on some systems, it remembers the previous disc info.

As user cosmo suggested regarding CD’s, installing the PPA for the newer «cdrtools’ vs «cdrkit» may also help.

Asus 24x DVD-RW Serial-ATA Internal OEM Optical Drive DRW-24B1ST (Black) $21.98us
https://www.amazon.com/Asus-Serial-ATA- . dvd+burner

LG Electronics 8X USB 2.0 Super Multi Ultra Slim Portable DVD Rewriter External Drive with M-DISC Support, Silver black, gold (GP60NS50) $23-$28us
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ODDE4JI/re . UTF8&psc=1

If you are not using Linux Mint KDE, and want to be able to run some very high quality KDE applications,
then install these few programs below in the quote box in blue, which are perfectly safe for any edition of Linux mint.

If you’re experiencing issues with KDE apps (like Amarok, Okular, Gwenview, KStars, kdenlive, «K3b», «Kolourpaint», etc. )
run the following command from your console terminal prompt: (you can copy & paste it too),
or install from the Synaptic Package Manager (SPM)
sudo apt-get install kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins

Depending on your setup, you might also need to install » KDE-runtime » as well.
If you want to use «Kmail», and or «Korganizer», and or Kontacts, and or «Kalarm», then you will probably have to also install «kdepim».

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