TUTORIAL: Burning DVD on X-CD-Roast with cdrecord-ProDVD

Type custom script prodvd to configure cdrecord-ProDVD.

[tchung@localhost tchung]$ prodvd
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version 
(schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.75-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.75 02/10/21 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').

Please enter DVDRW_DEVICE and DVDRW_SPEED in ~/.prodvd.conf file

[tchung@localhost tchung]$

Edit ~/.prodvd.conf file

[tchung@localhost tchung]$ gedit ~/.prodvd.conf

DVDRW_DEVICE=2,0,0
DVDRW_SPEED=4

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a19 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Joerg Schilling
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus2:
        2,0,0   200) 'LITE-ON ' 'DVD+RW LDW-401S ' 'ES0G' Removable CD-ROM
        2,1,0   201) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD-ROM GDR8162B' '0015' Removable CD-ROM
        2,2,0   202) *
        2,3,0   203) *
        2,4,0   204) *
        2,5,0   205) *
        2,6,0   206) *
        2,7,0   207) *

Enter values for DVDRW_DEVICE and DVDRW_SPEED as shown in red and save the file.

Please note the screenshot above is an example and your configuration for prodvd should be different.

My DVD Burner happend to be DVD+RW with maximum speed of 4X but you might have DVD-RW or DVD+/-RW with maximum speed of 2X. Check the manual for your DVD Burner for more information.