Blu ray

[Shane Ambler]

On 05/01/2015 11:07, Ed wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Jan 2015 18:40:43 +0100
> Andrea Venturoli <ml at netfence.it> wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I know the question has come up several times, but things change...
>>
>> Are Blu Ray recorders supported? Especially internal SATA ones?
>>
>> Could I buy one just for backup purposes, i.e. preparing a 25-50 GB ISO
>> and writing it?
>> What would be the maximum file size?
>>
>> Should I use cdrecord? groisofs? Anything else?
>>
>> Is 9.3 enough? Any improvement in 10.1?
>
>     growisofs manpage mentions supporting bluray recording, i guess it would do.
>
>      may want to search in the email archives.
>
>      while back i was also looking into  bluray support and found an interesting thread in the
>      mailing lists: "blu ray recorders"
>      https://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/2012/freebsd-questions/20120422.freebsd-questions.html
>
>      hope this was of some help:-)
>

As I mentioned in those emails I have an LG BH12LS38. Running 9.0 - 9.2
I burnt DVD's and CD's without issue using k3b - which is a gui frontend
to the cli tools.

Max file size is dependant on the filesystem not the disk, I think UDF
is normally used for Blu Ray so will support files over 2GB.

After those emails I tried burning a BD-R and failed, I think it was
buffer underrun. I have 8GB RAM and was using zfs on a single disc at
the time so more RAM may help.

The disc was recognised as BD-R all started fine just didn't complete.

I would have been running 9.1 at the time - over a year ago.

I have recently upgraded to 10.1 but haven't burnt any disks yet.

BD-R prices are down to a couple of dollars a disk so may be time to try 
again.


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