#681192 brasero: Brasero refuses to burn video DVDs

Package:
brasero
Source:
brasero
Description:
CD/DVD burning application for GNOME
Submitter:
Francois Gouget
Date:
2013-12-27 00:04:38 UTC
Severity:
important
#681192#5
Date:
2012-07-11 09:25:26 UTC
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To:
Dear Maintainer,

Here is how to reproduce the problem:
 * Insert a blank DVD+R in the drive.
 * brasero &
 * Click on 'Video project'
 * At that point the 'Burn...' button is disabled but I assume that's normal.
 * Add a 500MB MPEG2 video.
 * Brasero says 'Blank DVD+R disk : 1 h 49 of free space'
 * However the 'Burn...' button is still disabled and there's a banner that says:
      Please replace the disc with a supported CD or DVD.

However:
 * The banner is still present if I select 'Image File' instead of the blank DVD+R.
 * If I restart brasero and start a data DVD project on the blank DVD, the 'Burn...' button is enabled. I never had trouble burning data to these DVDs.
 * I get the same message whether I pick an AVI, MP4 or other video file format.

If the problem is with the source video, then the message should not blame the blank CD/DVD.
I have attached brasero's debug output.
#681192#10
Date:
2013-03-21 15:19:51 UTC
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Here is a workaround for this 'Please replace the disc' issue: install the brasero-cdrkit package.
Note that as of 3.4.1-1, brasero neither depends nor suggests brasero-cdrkit which I think qualifies as a bug.

Unfortunately getting past this hurdle will only gain you access to the error message:
   All required applications and libraries are not installed.

   Please install the following manually and try again:
   mplex (GStreamer plugin)

But that's for another bug (bug 703627)...

One more thing, after working around that second bug I get another error:

   Checking session consistency (brasero_burn_check_session_consistency brasero-burn.c:1739)
   Session error : An internal error occurred (brasero_burn_record brasero-burn.c:2856)

Various sources say that installing the barsero-cdrkit package is supposed to fix this. No dice here but that probably means Debian's brasero-cdrkit package is somewhat broken.


Reference:
 * brasero-burn.c:2856
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brasero/+bug/783918
http://dodebian.blogspot.fr/2012/01/brasero-burn-audio-cddvd-fix.html

 * Bug 703627 - gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad: Missing libgstmplex.so library breaks brasero DVD Video authoring
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=703627