Giovanni, Instead of saying to set a low value for DVDs, see if you can detect the disc and if it's a DVD then adjust that to be 12X or whatever as the maximum. Keep in mind that this whole program should be converted over to the layout manager at some point. That's what was started in osdrawer trunk. You can probably reuse a lot of the code from the one you are working on, like the cdrecord calls and such. One of the advantages of moving to the layout manager is that you can then add support for translating the text strings. -scottmc