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Burn CD or DVD from Command Line

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialCDBurn.html

http://www.debuntu.org/2006/06/03/61-how-to-burn-dvds-from-the-command-line

http://www.andrews-corner.org/burning.html

DVD

Detect Drive

dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvd

which growisofs

If it's not installed: 

sudo apt-get install dvd+rw-tools

cdrecord -scanbus

Burn an ISO Image

Limit the speed with '-speed=1' for uncertain media. 

growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=1 -Z /dev/dvd=Downloads/CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.iso

CD

Detect Drive

cdrecord -scanbus

or 

wodim --devices

Burn ISO Image

cdrecord -v dev=3,0,0 Desktop/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-amd64.iso

or 

wodim -eject -tao speed=2 dev=/dev/scd0 -v -data Desktop/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-amd64.iso

'speed=4' is faster.

Try 'speed=0' if problems.