DVD Writer Issues

[DrHu]

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=56127

What happens when you insert a blank media disk without opening/starting handbrake
http://handbrake.fr/?article=details

• HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

If you install a dvd player, such as vlc (which will include the libdvdcss file), then it could read/play a dvd movie
--perhaps then both brasero or k3b (uses wodim library) would recognize the drive; or you could try another library type and use xfburn (uses liburnia)