I have a few questions regarding dvd burning.

I recently installed a Mag Dog Dominator DVD burner. Based on what the
kernel tells me about the device, it's really made by Toshiba, which made
me feel a little more comfortable, knowing that a big name company made the
device.

k3b refuses to burn dvds with this device. Apparently, growisofs won't work
if the speed has been set, and the default speed is 1x. I burned two data
dvds a few nights ago, and each one took 45-50 minutes.

Now I'm trying to duplicate the dvd I had made from my wedding videotape. I
tried using lxdvdrip, but it gave me errors. I tried using k3b to burn the
vobs that lxdvdrip ripped to my hard drive, but k3b gave me the same
growisofs errors that lxdvdrip gave me. Below is the output from k3b:

System
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K3b Version:0.11.17
KDE Version: 3.2.3
QT Version: 3.3.3

growisofs
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Executing 'builtin_dd if=/dev/fd/0 of=/dev/hdd obs=32k seek=0'
:-( write failed: Input/output error

growisofs comand:
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/usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray
-use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=dao -dvd-compat -speed=4

mkisofs
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/usr/bin/mkisofs: Warning: -follow-links does not always work correctly; be
careful.
The pad was 862 for file VIDEO_TS.BUP
The pad was 42 for file VIDEO_TS.IFO
/usr/bin/mkisofs: Implementation botch. Video pad for file VIDEO_TS.VOB is
-5
/usr/bin/mkisofs: Either the *.IFO file is bad or you found a mkisofs bug.

mkisofs comand:
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/usr/bin/mkisofs -gui -graft-points -volid K3b data project -volset -appid
K3B THE CD KREATOR VERSION 0.11.17 (C) 2003 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B
TEAM -publisher -preparer K3b - Version 0.11.17 -sysid LINUX -volset-size
1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-moshe/k3bUw67ib.tmp -rational-rock
-hide-list /tmp/kde-moshe/k3bHvDrqb.tmp -full-iso9660-filenames
-follow-links -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-moshe/k3b7krGwa.tmp
-dvd-video /tmp/kde-moshe/k3bVideoDvd0 /home/moshe/.kde/share/apps/k3b/temp/dummydir0/



Any help is getting this resolved would be appreciated. I have family
visiting this weekend, and I'd like to give copies of the video to them.

Michael Levy