a linux free dvd burner software?
 

does that exists? my dvd burner makes windows crashes :)

thx

cdrecord-prodvd is great! :)
It`s free for private non-commercial purposes.

k3b should also manage dvd's after what i've heard
*never tried it*

Yeah, k3b handles DVDs... But K3b need dvd+rw-tools to be installed in order to work...
You may search distro binaries or install it from source http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/tools/

DVD+RW-Tools support DVD+R/W and DVD-R/W since the version 5.0

Ya. after tinkering with Red Hat and in the light of the end of support coming up and reading so many posts my next Linux most likely will be Slack. So where to look for the best version...

If you're planning to make a switch to slackware, it already comes with DVD+RW-tools on its latest edition along with K3b... www.slackware.org
and www.slax.org to give slack a try through this live distribution... pretty good indeed.

Can my CD writer write, via SCSI emulation to DVD's, just not read from them? I imagine the laser to be quite flexible, just not the reader.

Heck, if you used an SCSI reader specially configured to read it like a DVD, could you read one too?

:D yup this is what I was noticing! Looking forward to try it! In the mean time my Mac is handling extremely well! ;)

I guess this isn't so easy like this... The laser may be flexible but does it support the calibration needed to burn DVDs? and I think that the writer needs to recognize the DVD-ROM as a valid media to burn which won't happen as it cannot read from it. It just won't be able to retrieve the dvd's information (like total space, media type and so on)

I'm asking myself what do you call a "SCSI reader specially configured to read it like a DVD" ? Would this modification on the hardware? I don't think just software will do it. Maybe with some internal modifications but you may end up building a whole dvd reader just replacing stuff from your cd-reader ;) (I really don't the only thing that matters when reading a disk is the laser...)

If anyone ever heard of a cd-reader mod for dvd reading let me know about it :D