Problems burning DVD-RW

[Rolf Nielsen]

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On 2014-11-28 16:22, christian wrote:
> Hi Rolf!
> 
> On 28.11.2014 10:43, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
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>> On 2014-11-27 18:21, christian wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> Every once a while I'd like to burn a DVD-RW. It works as long
>>> as I'm using fresh (blank) DVD-RW media. But if I want to
>>> overwrite a non-blank one then I get the following output:
>> <...>
>> 
>>> Thanks for your help, Christian.
>> DVD-RW media need to be blanked if they were previously written
>> to. Try something like this:
>> 
>> cdrecord -v dev=4,0,0 blank=fast
>> 
>> before the actual recording. If the above doesn't work, try
>> blank=all instead of blank=fast.
>> 
> That did the trick! Thanks for you help!
> 
> Ciao, Christian.
> 

Glad I could help. You could also try DVD+RW. They needn't be blanked.

Rolf
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