Hi, I can run DVD Fab 5 through wine fine, but I cannot write to my DVD burner when I put in a blank DVD. It will not even list it, although it will list it when I put in a DVD movie. I can see why, as when it is a blank media, then Ubuntu does not mount it, so therefore Wine cannot map a drive to the mounted path. I have used winecfg to detect drives etc. I have been researching on this problem/tearing my hair out for a few days now and it looks like this is just not possible, but my last try is to see if anyone else has any answers, but it looks like it is just not possible. I guess I will probably have to stick with using DVDFab to burn to the hard drive and then manually burn to a DVD disk using K3b However if anyone has any workaround then I would be grateful. I am a newbie to Ubuntu, but am a power user in windows. Kind regards Michael
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 05:35 -0600, mpatrick wrote:> I can see why, as when it is a blank media, then Ubuntu does not mount > it, so therefore Wine cannot map a drive to the mounted path. >Its in Nautilus, the Gnome file system browser. Look under Places for the CD/DVD creator. Martin
mpatrick wrote:> I can see why, as when it is a blank media, then Ubuntu does not mount it, so therefore Wine cannot map a drive to the mounted path.You are correct. Wine does not see any unmounted media. It's a long standing bug.
Thanks so much for your very quick replies, it is much appreciated. Thanks Vitamin for confirming what I thought. Its nice to have it affirmed and that I am not going mad or missing something. Perhaps one day they will fix it??!! I am still in the early stages of trying out ubuntu and seeing if I want to change from windows. On many points I love it, but on points such as these I find it very frustrating. I guess I also find it frustrating on having to spend so much time on setting things up, pouring over forums. All of which I cannot remember doing for windows. Although I have been using windows for so many years perhaps I cant remember how long it took to learn it and get it setup in the first place?? I will persevere... as I love the idea of linux and the community behind it, not to mention the free apps and people helping each other without money being behind it all. So many things about Microsoft and its commercialisation and cost annoy me (I could say a lot stronger words!!) Anyway off my soapbox!! Thanks again Regards Michael