Comment 13 for bug 18194

(In reply to comment #12)
> can you try what Lionel described and note if that fixes your issue?

I just bought more CD-R's, I think I have spent more than 5 already. I should
invest in CD-RW : )

I tried with sudo nautilus and used the "write to disc..." function but this did
not work either. I get a success message but only part of the disc has been
written to (you can see darker parts on foil where data has been written to.
When I run the files, they are bogus.

Another experiment I did before this was to use k3b on default settings
(non-root) and the file burned more completely except there were obvious errors
this time since the video did not contain sound when played off the disc versus
off the harddrive.

I do remember having to be root user to successfully burn in k3b when I used
Debian Testing/Sarge. There was a solution that allowed regular users tburn in
k3b which may have involved downloading extra packages and changing a few
settings. I never remember successfully making a disc in GNOME my entire Linux
career. My successes were all in k3b which became quiet reliable.

I didn't have debug report printed while burning but I expect it to be the same
as the previous one I posted. And again, this hardware has been able to write
many many successful discs (of many different types) with k3b.