I have data that is too big for a dvd, too big for a dvd-dl and too small for a bd disc so I have written a program that takes my data up to 4gb and writes the path and filename into a text file. One run creates 3 text files (burn.000.txt, burn.001.txt, and burn.002.txt) each containing the path and filename of 4gb of data.

My hope is to get K3b (or any other burning app) to read the path and filename from a text file and burn that file onto a 4.4gb dvd and then I repeat the process for the next text file.

Unfortunately, The last part is eluding me. My extensive searches are all negative.

I cannot find anyway to retrieve the data from the text file. K3b does not allow pasting into the burn list area or at least my K3b, Version 2.0.1 using KDE Development Platform 4.4.5 (KDE 4.4.5) on Debian testing does not allow it. I cannot drag the text file because the file will get burned and not the data.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

If you are using a script already, wouldn't it be easier to use a command-line burning tool from the script directly? What is the advantage to using k3b in this task?

From growisofs manual page (man growisofs):

growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /some/files

I created next script for you... give it a test.

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#!/bin/bash
PATH_DVD="/dev/dvd";

for i in burn*.txt ; do
   echo "Recording DVD $i"
   growisofs -Z $PATH_DVD -R -J "`cat $i | fmt `";
done


Thank You for the replies

TheBlackCat, your suggestion was one of many that I tried before I posted. My problem is that the text file was over 294,000 lines of (paths and filenames). The text file is 221kb. I opened a terminal and entered the mkisofs command line and then I pasted the contents of the text file. Big mistake. After about a few minutes of text scrolling (I mean a few minutes) I closed the terminal.

The advantage of K3b is over time I have become accustomed to GUI solutions. I have lost much of my desire to type and more of my desire to click.

STaRMaN_Gr, I will give your suggestion a try. I was so focused on a graphical solution that I forgot about a bash script, as immediately above.

Thanks both appreciate it.

I'll let you know what happens.