On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 13:05:39 -0800 Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you are going to burn DVDs, you are better off with k3b. > (http://www.k3b.org/) It requires some extra libraries, which you > will want anyway. (DVD+R tools.) It also gets you away from the closed > source cdrecord.prodvd. The interface is like Nero in the Windows > world (which is good and bad), but it works a great deal better. > I'll second that. I've only just got an NEC DVD+/- R/RW drive and have successfully written DVD+R and DVD-RW using k3b. AFAIK it's just a gui on top of other commands which do the real work, so it shouldn't be difficult to work out what it's calling and use those in a script for automated backups. Regards, Chris