> I'm having a terrible time trying to do anything at all with my DVD+/-RW
> drive... Mandrake 9.2 here...
>
> I found dvdrecord but it gives me all sorts of error messages...
> dvd+rw-format crashes and leaves me with $5 discs that the drive
> firmware crashes when you insert them...
>
> Is anyone here having *any* success writing to any kind of DVD media?
> It seems the free software world is about seven years behind Windows in
> this arena...
I didn't have any success until I used the growisofs command from the
dvd+rw-tools package (
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/). I
use it even for non-rewritable discs. There is a pretty good howto on
that page. dvdrecord just created a bunch of coasters for me. I've
made 2 different dvd videos now (one with menus), and multiple copies of
one so I'd say I've progressed to the intermediate stage if you have any
more questions.
--Karl
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