Burning CD-G (karaoke) discs in Linux - Revision history

Hutch at 03:39, 11 December 2008

Hutch — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:39:47 GMT

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	* I've never had successful CD+G burns using my LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1S burners. Although the graphics data (.cdg) copies, it is "blocky," making the discs virtually unusable on a karaoke machine.		* I've never had successful CD+G burns using my LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1S burners. Although the graphics data (.cdg) copies, it is "blocky," making the discs virtually unusable on a karaoke machine.

-	* My LITE-ON USB DVD writer (model eHAU220-08) makes perfect CD+G discs. The speed I burn at doesn't seem to matter. The discs work fine at a 48x speed burn.	+	* The software used to burn the discs didn't seem to matter; all software was unsuccessful with the LITE-ON DVDRW LH-201AS burners. In addition to using cdgtools/cdrdao in Linux, I tried CDRWIN and Power Karaoke CD+G Creator in a Windows XP Professional virtual machine.
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		+	* My LITE-ON USB DVD writer (model eHAU220-08) makes perfect CD+G discs using cdgtools/cdrdao. The speed I burn at doesn't seem to matter. The discs work fine at a 48x speed burn.

	$ '''wodim --devices'''		$ '''wodim --devices'''

Hutch at 03:33, 11 December 2008

Hutch — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:33:42 GMT

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	* [http://www.kibosh.org/cdgtools/ cdgtools] may be used to "rip" and burn (cdg2bin.py) CD+G (e.g., karaoke) discs.		* [http://www.kibosh.org/cdgtools/ cdgtools] may be used to "rip" and burn (cdg2bin.py) CD+G (e.g., karaoke) discs.

-	* I've never had successful burns using my LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1S ~~burner~~. Although the graphics data (.cdg) ~~would copy~~, it ~~was~~ "blocky," making the discs virtually unusable on a karaoke machine.	+	* I've never had successful CD+G burns using my LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1S burners. Although the graphics data (.cdg) copies, it is "blocky," making the discs virtually unusable on a karaoke machine.

	* My LITE-ON USB DVD writer (model eHAU220-08) makes perfect CD+G discs. The speed I burn at doesn't seem to matter. The discs work fine at a 48x speed burn.		* My LITE-ON USB DVD writer (model eHAU220-08) makes perfect CD+G discs. The speed I burn at doesn't seem to matter. The discs work fine at a 48x speed burn.

Hutch at 03:32, 11 December 2008

Hutch — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:32:35 GMT

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	Some notes on burning CD+G discs in Linux:		Some notes on burning CD+G discs in Linux:

-	* [http://www.kibosh.org/cdgtools/ cdgtools] may be used to "rip" and burn CD+G (e.g., karaoke) discs.	+	* [http://www.kibosh.org/cdgtools/ cdgtools] may be used to "rip" and burn (cdg2bin.py) CD+G (e.g., karaoke) discs.

	* I've never had successful burns using my LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1S burner. Although the graphics data (.cdg) would copy, it was "blocky," making the discs virtually unusable on a karaoke machine.		* I've never had successful burns using my LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1S burner. Although the graphics data (.cdg) would copy, it was "blocky," making the discs virtually unusable on a karaoke machine.

Hutch at 03:31, 11 December 2008

Hutch — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:31:11 GMT

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	* My LITE-ON USB DVD writer (model eHAU220-08) makes perfect CD+G discs. The speed I burn at doesn't seem to matter. The discs work fine at a 48x speed burn.		* My LITE-ON USB DVD writer (model eHAU220-08) makes perfect CD+G discs. The speed I burn at doesn't seem to matter. The discs work fine at a 48x speed burn.
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	$ '''wodim --devices'''		$ '''wodim --devices'''

Hutch: New page: Some notes on burning CD+G discs in Linux: * [http://www.kibosh.org/cdgtools/ cdgtools] may be used to "rip" and burn CD+G (e.g., karaoke) discs. * I've never had successful burns using ...

Hutch — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:30:47 GMT

New page: Some notes on burning CD+G discs in Linux: * [http://www.kibosh.org/cdgtools/ cdgtools] may be used to "rip" and burn CD+G (e.g., karaoke) discs. * I've never had successful burns using ...

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Some notes on burning CD+G discs in Linux:

* [http://www.kibosh.org/cdgtools/ cdgtools] may be used to "rip" and burn CD+G (e.g., karaoke) discs.

* I've never had successful burns using my LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1S burner. Although the graphics data (.cdg) would copy, it was "blocky," making the discs virtually unusable on a karaoke machine.

* My LITE-ON USB DVD writer (model eHAU220-08) makes perfect CD+G discs. The speed I burn at doesn't seem to matter. The discs work fine at a 48x speed burn.

$ '''wodim --devices'''
wodim: Overview of accessible drives (3 found) :
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0 dev='/dev/scd0' rwrw-- : 'LITE-ON' 'DVDRW LH-20A1S' (doesn't work)
1 dev='/dev/scd1' rwrw-- : 'LITE-ON' 'DVDRW LH-20A1S' (doesn't work)
2 dev='/dev/scd2' rwrw-- : 'ATAPI' 'iHAS220 6' ('''works''')
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Information from working burner:

$ '''wodim dev=22,0,0 driveropts=help -checkdrive'''
...
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'ATAPI '
Identification : 'iHAS220 6 '
Revision : '8L04'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Driver options:
burnfree Prepare writer to use BURN-Free technology
noburnfree Disable using BURN-Free technology
forcespeed Tell the drive to force speed even for low quality media

Information from non-working burners:

$ '''wodim dev=4,0,0 driveropts=help -checkdrive'''
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'LITE-ON '
Identification : 'DVDRW LH-20A1S '
Revision : '9L08'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Driver options:
burnfree Prepare writer to use BURN-Free technology
noburnfree Disable using BURN-Free technology
forcespeed Tell the drive to force speed even for low quality media