brasero burnproof greyed out even when drive supports it

Thanks for your report, could you run brasero from the command line as: brasero --debug &> brasero-debug.txt perform the operation to reproduce the bug and attach the resulting file to the report?. Thanks in advance

The device in question is Lite-On LH-20A1S. It works with 'burnproof' on the commercial Nero software.

http://www.liteonit.com/global/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=199&Itemid=67

Nero Linux appears to call the feature 'smart-burn' like the documentation for the Lite-On drive. It's essentially all the same feature from the end user perspective though.

The feature apparently goes by various names depending on the manufacturer:

JustLink, ExacLink, Seamless Link, BURN-Proof, Smart-Burn, Power Burn, Safe Burn.

This page briefly describes some of the types of burn protection. It sounds like this may be a per vendor extension, so it may be that only some of the extensions are implemented in Brasero.

http://www.burnworld.com/cdr/hardware/bu.htm

Thanks Chris, i'll send this upstream to grab their feedback.

I've sent this upstream at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577483 ; thanks for your comments.

Same problem on Jaunty 9.04/amd64 with my 2 DVD-RW (Liteon and Pioneer): I can't enable burnproof!
Please fix it, it's very important for a safe burn ;)

comment from upstream:

"Thanks for the report.

I'm afraid this is not a bug: MMC standards only define burnproof (or related
technologies) for CDs and DVDs-R. For the other types of media, the way they
are written (overwrite, more or less like a hard drive) means that they don't
need such a thing as burnproof or related technologies. This process is safe in
itself and won't (shouldn't??) fail.

That's why I chose to leave the checkbox greyed out when burning to these
media.
I knew this would confuse the users and probably scare them but I didn't know
how to do it otherwise (maybe remove it?).

I checked the log you sent me and the user was having a DVD+R inserted it
seems, that's why he didn't have burnproof.

On the other hand, if a user has a CD/DVD-Rw inserted and if burnproof isn't
available then, that will be a bug indeed. You can tell your users to try with
a CD or a DVD-R.

If you come up with another idea or if this happens with CDs and DVD-Rw, please
reopen the bug and let me know.
"