CentOS - Aug 2008 - Problem with gnome with file type recognition.

I have a problem with some file recognition with gnome (CentOS 5.2).

I have some DVD with AVI files I burn some time ago (and the files were
checked and the DVD are fine), and curiously only the 3 or 4 first files
were recognized as AVI files, but the rest not!.

I another times, appears to recognize all files, but from some days to now
I have this problem (specially with AVI files).

The recognized files are played fine with xine, mplayer or vlc, but the
rest not, the players don't know how to play them (very courious this
issue).

Do anyone know how to solve this? Could be any system component that
wasn't working fine? (as any daemon, or the DVD reader) Anyone know how to
test my DVD writer/reader or any system/gnome components that could be
missconfigured or not working?

Regards

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:21 AM, ArcosCom Linux User <linux at
arcoscom.com> wrote:
>
> Do anyone know how to solve this? Could be any system component that
> wasn't working fine? (as any daemon, or the DVD reader) Anyone know how
to
> test my DVD writer/reader or any system/gnome components that could be
> missconfigured or not working?
>
Without knowing any more about this situation (hardware specifics,
details on the DVDs, ageds, file sizes, etc.), I usually follow these
general rules:

1) Burn the DVDs slower than their maximum rated speed.  The more
important the data, the slower the burn, but usually not below 4x.

2) Verify the DVDs while/after burning in the burner AND also by
reading them in a different brand and model DVD reader (or burner).
If it's a video DVD, also play it in a commercial DVD player.

You can test the DVDs and the burner(s) this way by using different
brands of DVDs (if some fail), etc.  I've also had DVDs go bad, which
is really annoying, but it's rare and hasn't happened yet on any
critical backup DVDs.

Without more information as I said above, that's about all I could tell you.

HTH.

mhr

on 8-28-2008 3:21 AM ArcosCom Linux User spake the
following:
> I have a problem with some file recognition with gnome (CentOS 5.2).
> 
> I have some DVD with AVI files I burn some time ago (and the files were
> checked and the DVD are fine), and curiously only the 3 or 4 first files
> were recognized as AVI files, but the rest not!.
> 
> I another times, appears to recognize all files, but from some days to now
> I have this problem (specially with AVI files).
> 
> The recognized files are played fine with xine, mplayer or vlc, but the
> rest not, the players don't know how to play them (very courious this
> issue).
> 
> Do anyone know how to solve this? Could be any system component that
> wasn't working fine? (as any daemon, or the DVD reader) Anyone know how
to
> test my DVD writer/reader or any system/gnome components that could be
> missconfigured or not working?
> 
> Regards
AVI files can be created with many codecs. Maybe your system doesn't have 
codecs required by the files that don't play.



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