Hi all, forgive me for asking such a newbie-question, but I just ordered my very first dvd-burner, and I kind of want to know exactly how to burn dvd's in Slackware. I'm running Slackware 10.2 and I never burned a dvd in my entire life.

I googled some, but to my great frustration all I could find were howto's for other distro's and specific problems with dvd-burning. I also found gnomebaker and k3b, but I'm not running Gnome or KDE, I don't even have them installed. So maybe someone please could tell me about a stable GTK+2 dvd burning app (that would run in XFCE without Gnome). I don't mind console-based burning apps either since I'm already familiar with bashburn. Also, should I use SCSI-emulation even though I'm running kernel 2.6.13?

Thanks in advance.

Gnomebaker should work fine in XFCE though you may need to install a few gnome libs (not all of gnome). K3b would also work fine, but you would have to install qt and kdelibs.

gnomebaker and k3b probably has lots of dependencies. The problem is that Slackware doesn't have Gnome anymore. I can get Gnome, but those builds clutter up the system by replacing the X-server and a tonne of libraries, all for the sake of cpu-optimization it seems, and that will definitely cause problems later on. KDE is just one big and heavy package to install all for the sake of dvd-burning. But anyway, thanks for your reply.

You could burn from the command-line as well.
Check out 'mkisofs' and 'growisofs' - here's a small example (taken from dvdstyler, I hope it's correct...):
Also, nero now has a burner for Linux. It doesn't burn dvd-videos, I haven't really tried it.
And you don't need the SCSI-emulation AFAIK.

I did a quick check with man, and it seems ok. I didn't even know the name of the binary that actually does the burning, but it's growisofs allright :] Thanks.