[mythtv] fixes to mythburn.py

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Sat Oct 8 09:12:47 UTC 2011


On 08/10/11 01:41, Stefan Brackertz wrote:
>>> Maybe we should alter mytharchive in a way that it runs
>>> mythburn.py as a whole with ionice? Do you think that makes sense?
>>
>> Not if you want to actually burn the DVD from it.  Anyway, I've now
>> fixed the calls for the tools that I use.  See the ticket for a combined
>> patch.
>
> Hm, what's the problem? I think growisofs uses the
> buffer-underrun-protection provided by all drives since 2004 by default.
> Maybe one could test if the drive is able to protect underruns to be sure.
>
> Stefan

No doubt it ought to work, but I'd prefer not to rely on it unless 
forced to do so.  I burn-and-verify from iso using K3b, after a quick 
check that the iso has no obvious flaws.  Verifying does catch an 
occasional failure.

John



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