On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Chris Geldenhuis <chris.gelden at iafrica.com> wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > Thanks for the quick response - I did try to format with dvd+rw tools but > also got a respnse that the media was not recordable. AFAIK it should not be > required. > I usually use K3B for all my CD and DVD recording needs - it works nicely, even under GNOME (I don't use KDE). I've never had a problem like the one you describe, but I've upgraded to each new CentOS release fairly quickly, so I'm on 5.2, and that might be better. The one problem I did have with a "new" DVD burner was that it would only write at 2.47x at the fastest, and it was supposed to be a 20x drive. The manufacturer suggested I RMA it, which I will if I ever get around to taking it out and putting in a (different, known good) one. I also have mplayer/mencoder installed (and vobcopy and a few others), so I don't know if any of them might be involved peripherally, dragging in a more recent module from rpmforge, but I'm thinking you could try K3B and not lose anything if it works. HTH mhr