DVD writing takes more than an hour with any DVD, set to any speed in both Brasero and Gnomebaker
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cdrkit (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
It is a painful task to burn DVDs on Hardy. I first burnt a DVD at maximum speed in Brasero. The content size was around 4.1GiB. It took nearly 75 minutes to burn the DVD, but it was successful. Then I thought there must be some problems with Brasero and burnt another DVD with Gnomebaker, again the result it same. Its painful to see both of these applications use 1.14GiB(100%) of my RAM which I see when I run top when burning DVDs. This makes it impossible to use any other application. Even chatting in Pidgin becomes impossible. Still more paining is that Brasero uses 100% CPU most of the time.
Hardy is an LTS and shouldn't have shipped with such a critical bug. I tried with both Moserbaer Pro DVD and a cheap DVD. Results are same. It is so sad that I have to install Winblow$ now on my machine to use Nero or I should install another distro just for burning DVDs. I dont want to go out of Ubuntu. Please help me.
Thanks in advance,
Changed in cdrkit: | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
Bah, Ubuntu is not slow as hell at least. I had reported this in the very first week of my usage with Hardy Heron and at last the package name has been changed now, when there is just 2 more months for the release of Intrepid. And to be very frank the bug is not alone in brasero but in every CD/DVD writing utility I tried like k3b and others. If the case mentioned above was for the DVD. CD writing is also a pain. It takes around 30 minutes to write a 700 MiB CD at 52x consuming full 100% CPU. So I think the bug is not in a specific package but a common backend used by all the burning tools.
Things doesn't stop here. The problem also continues with the playing of CD/DVD. I mean when I put already burnt CD/DVD into the tray, the moment it is accessed the CPU usage raises to 100% hampering all other work happening on the system. By any chance if I try to play the video in the DVD/CD if there exists some such, I can see frame by frame of the video with a gap between each frame anywhere in the range of 1 or 2 seconds.
I thought Ubuntu will fix this bug in 8.04.1 itself, but nothing has been done. Looks like people are least interested in the bug. I don't know why but it exists. I at least hope Intrepid will not have such hopeless problems.