Lately, I have been trying to catch up on my DVDs backups (meaning, backing up all of my DVD movies onto my computer hard drives). During this process I found out two things. 1) My old DVD burner/reader was dying and couldn’t read a single DVD and 2) once I got it replaced, CDRDAO would crash every time I tried to make an ISO of my DVD.
I found a quick and easy way to get CDRDAO to work on my machine, build it from source. Most of the time, people will consider building from source to be complex or time consuming, but it really isn’t. If you use Debian, Ubuntu, or a distro that has a utility that resembles apt-get, then building from source is simple.
Just do the following:
apt-get build-dep cdrdao
apt-get –build source cdrdao
dpkg -i cdrdao*.deb
After you have completed that, you can now use K3B to write your DVD ISOs, or any other program that uses CDRDAO. I hope this helps anyone else with the same issue I was experiencing. Which at first had me thinking K3B was just constantly crashing, but I later discovered it was CDRDAO.