Re: Fedora Core 2 DVD burning speed ?

From: Noi (noi_at_siam.com)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 06:06:36 GMT

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:25:47 -0700, Paul Lutus thoughtfully wrote:

> James Roberts wrote:
>
>> I have FC2 and am using K3b to burn CDs and DVDs on a NEC 2500a DVD
>> drive. CD burning works fine and is fast. DVD burning works , but the
>> speed is always 1x , the drive is an 8X drive and I have tried both 4x
>> and 8x media and the speed is always 1x. The DVD burning speeds in K3b
>> have no effect. I read somthing about the version of CD record that
>> comes with FC2 being a hacked version to support DVD , does it support
>> burning at speeds > 1x. Is anybody getting 4x or 8x speeds while burning
>> DVDs?
>
> I get 4x speeds regularly. And k3b in FC2 doesn't use cdrecord to burn
> DVDs, it uses growisofs, as you will discover if you will simply click the
> "debug" button on the burning dialog.
>
> I suspect the problem is either your DVD r/w drive or the DVDs you are
> using.

Do you know how to allow ordinary users to burn with k3b?