On one of my machines I'm running SuSE 9.1 with cdrecord updated to version 2.01-4. I'm able to write DVDs (the +R variety) with k3b without a problem, but I want to be able to create them from a shell script, and for that I need cdrecord. The trouble is that when I try to run it, I see a message indicating that I need to go to Georg Schilling's website and get a key in order to write such DVDs -- and the key needs to be periodically renewed. Hardly the way I want to go. The unpatched program will write DVDs but they're unreadable. I've also tried using growisofs, with not totally satisfactory results. The DVDs it writes are readable on the drive that wrote them and on some other DVD drives but not on all. On the other hand, the ones written with k3b are readable anywhere. Does anyone have success stories about writing +R DVDs? Paul