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Flash

What I'm trying to do is add a session to the DVD, that is not generated by Puppy's "Save" script, so it shows up in the disk's TOC with the title I want. TkDVD offers a checkbox in the Advanced Options page: "Add session to disk," but when I try to use it to add a session to my multisession DVD it says the disk is read only. I'm pretty sure this worked before, when I tried it in an earlier version of Puppy. Can anyone tell my what I need to do to add a large file as a session, to a multisession DVD?

Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 2051 Location: Heart of Texas

Flash · Posted: Fri 03 Nov 2006, 00:37 Post subject:

That works, Ted, but I should have said "folder" or "directory" instead of "file." Embarassed

I tried saving a folder containing several hundred mp3 files. The files were saved, but not the folder they had been in. Now I have several hundred mp3 files in the / directory of the DVD, named 01-01, 01-02, ...., instead of a folder named with the title of the book, and containing those mp3 files. Laughing

Do you know why TkDVD won't do what I want? If it's a bug I'll send the developer a bug report.

How is UDF coming along? Wouldn't UDF support make it easy to do what I want?

Flash · Posted: Fri 03 Nov 2006, 17:28 Post subject:

I tried it again, with a different folder containing 244 mp3 files and adding the -J option to growisofs. The same thing happened. Now it's a big mess with the mp3 files from 2 books mixed up. Laughing

How does multisession Puppy save a session so it shows up as a folder when you mount the disk?

Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 2051 Location: Heart of Texas

I hope that is a TEST DVD! You turned on MS mode naming methods with the -J option, It can self distruct any multisession in the future... AHHHHH!!!!
No really, this option caused us problems in the past.

Flash · Posted: Sat 04 Nov 2006, 11:20 Post subject:

It's my test DVD, Ted. Very Happy

Thanks for the code. I'll try it today.

Flash · Posted: Sat 04 Nov 2006, 13:39 Post subject:

Your recipe worked perfectly, Ted. Using -J in the previous try didn't ruin my test DVD so I copied all 244 of the mp3 files from the DVD to /tmp, then used /tmp as the source directory in your recipe so I had to change /mnt in your recipe to /tmp. Also, either the name of the directory-to-be-created on DVD has to be exactly the same as the name of the source directory, or you can't use spaces in the name of the directory on the DVD.

Flash · Posted: Sun 05 Nov 2006, 20:02 Post subject:

I found that I had to add -l (lower-case L) before it would work with long directory names: