Thanks much for the help on cdrtools I got it built and installed along with dvdrwtools and probably sometime this weekend will do a proper burn of a dvd with it. On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Joerg Schilling wrote: > gt <static.vortex@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable > > > > K3b uses dvd+rw-format to format DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs. > > > > Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package. > > > > > > Do you use an old version of k3b? > > > > > > Do you use a modified version of k3b? > > > > > > an unmodified k3b prevers to write DVDs via cdrecord since several years. > > > > I am using the latest k3b from arch's repos. v2.0.2 > > > > But, i ignored the error and tried to write a DVD, and the burn went > > fine without growisofs. > > Thank you for this information! > > J?rg > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>