On Wednesday 27 August 2008 20:27:15 MHR wrote: > 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. > One question to Chris - did you click on the status bar where you need to change the disk type? Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080827/324e65ff/attachment-0005.sig>