braseroburningdvd
Brasero is fond of writing .md5 CRC files on the DVD. Most DVD players are allergic to
stray files and refuse to play DVD's with .md5 files written on them
Why on earth does Brasero do this and how can it be stopped.
Oh, while we are here, I tried Brasero's video writer, but it refused to write a directory and demanded a single file. The DVD source I have, uses a VIDEO_TS directory. This is a common industry standard.
That's right. Brasero does not make DVDs. However there are many tools around that work fine. I'd recommend DeVeDe (see multiverse) for easy doing so. Or, alternatively any other video authoring software.
SCSI error on write(1248864, 16)
The drive refused to write a chunk of 32 kB after many other such operations have already succeeded. (Exactly 78054 write operations did work. That's 2.5 GB.)
The error message is supposed to be accompanied by some SCSI error code: 3 hex Numbers and their translation to human readable text. E.g.:
[3 0C 00] Write error
Whatever, since the drive already worked on that burn job without complaining, it is clearly a hardware problem. Drive and medium did not like each other any more. It is not a problem of burn software (in this case libburn, where i am the developer) or of input data (the ISO image).
If this happens once in a large number of burns, then i would count it as a particular bad medium. If this happens often and with media from different manufacturers then i would blame it on the drive. (Sometimes they go bad in their youth, sometimes they die slowly after years of service.)
Best Answer
Just disable the "Image Checksum" plugin if you don't want Brasero to write the .md5 file on the disc.
For the DVD-Video, I've never tried this but you could make an ISO using genisoimage and then burn it.
genisoimage -dvd-video -udf -o iso_file.iso folder
Where "folder" is the folder containing the VIDEO_TS/AUDIO_TS directories and iso_file.iso is the ISO that you will burn. As I said I've never tried this before, so try this ISO file first using VLC. If VLC loads the ISO correctly you should burn it without problems.