DISCLAIMER: Yes I'm whining, but hopefully someone who wants to user their BD writer will find this useful...
Well I thought I would try to make my first blu-ray movie from some home movies instead of down converting them to DVD like I have been... Only to find out not only is it currently laborious process, it's actually technically impossible for FOSS.
The laborious part is trying to get it into the right format (x264 with very specific settings and separate audio file), but even if you manage that part, there's no UDF 2.5 write support in linux. If you're lucky, you BD player may not care.
No problem, I'll worry about that later, I'll just burn a backup of my pictures that were getting to hard to backup on DVD's....
Put in disc... Check!
Detected in Brasero... Check!
"copy" into new data project... Check!
BURN!
ejects immediately with no helpful error message...
... skip some time spent googling only to get really mad about the whole cdrkit vs. cdrtools debacle...
... skip spending time getting cdrtools 3.01 to build ...
I'm still working on getting the kinks out of that... conflicts with several cdrkit packages (genisoimage, wodim, icedax)
Ok! Last resort, do it the PITA way...
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/bdimage.udf bs=2048 count=12219392
$ mkudffs bdimage.udf
# sudo mount -t udf -o loop bdimage /mnt/disc
currently copying files into the image file... HOPEFULLY brasero will at least burn the image...
Richard