playable DVDs - too hard!

[Karl Auer]

This is just a comment.

I spent HOURS last night trying to get 15.10 to create a playable DVD
(not a data DVD). I didn't want Gnomebaker (though at least on 12.04 it
was very good) because it's not in the repos. I didn't want to use K3b
because it drags in rafts of KDE cruft. I tried Brasero, and it failed
because allegedly my blank disk was already mounted. Googling showed
that this bug had existed for YEARS. CD/DVD Creator had the same
flaw[1]. It also seemed unable to understand a .cue file produced by
DeVeDe (which is great software, but only does images, not actual
burning). I tried a few other pieces of software which all did the same
thing - they seemed to be using the same back end, because I ended up
at exactly the same dialogue.

I ended up using dvdstyler, which was pleasantly speedy compared to
Brasero and actually worked when writing.

Seriously - it's 2016. Creating a playable DVD with ANY software should
be as simple as drag, drop, burn.

Regards, K.

[1] Stick in a DVD. Some seconds later, a dialogue asking you what you
want to do appears. Choose "Do nothing". Run Brasero; when it's time to
write the DVD, it complains that it cannot access the DVD because it is
already mounted. There is no way to check for "mountedness" - clicking
on the "Blank DVD" icon in the launcher will mount it for sure if it
isn't already - whatever the heck "mounted" means for a blank disk!
Certainly Nautilus shows an "eject" button next to the disk. Clicking
the "Eject" icon next to the disk in Nautilus obviously ejects the
disk, which is counterproductive. CD/DVD Creator asks one to insert a
usable CD/DVD - even when there is demonstrably already one in the
slot. Various attempted workarounds, like running Brasero or CD/DVD
Creator automatically upon insertion of a blank DVD, did not work.

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