Tutorial: How to burn a DVD under Linux

To burn a DVD in X-CD-Roast, you have to set a media size greater than 1 GB in the media selection drop box, you must have a DVD-Writer, and you need a plugin as well as a DVD-key. The rest is the same, X-CD-Roast switches automatically from burning CDs to burning DVDs. In this chapter, we will download the plugin and the DVD-key. The plugin is named cdrecord-ProDVD. It is used in addition to cdrecord. Cdrecord is the library used to burn usual CDs. With the latest releases of cdrecord-ProDVD, as well CD-R/RW as DVD-R/RW are now supported.