Editing read/write DVD's with OS X 10.5

Hi folks,
I wanted to delete a couple of videos from a read/write DVD, but leave a couple of the existing videos on it also (6 different videos on it recorded from TV on a DVR), and then copy a few files from my mac onto it to free up some space. Is this possible with a macbook pro? If so, how? I gather disk utility will only do multisession CD's and NOT DVD's....

All DVD burners can do DVD-R multisession, however the initial burn has to be setup as apendable.
Same with CD burners on CD-R. If the initial burn is not appendable, that's the last burn.
CD-RW and DVD-RW are complete rewrite burns rather than appendable, you lose everything on the disk during a rewrite. I am not sure if you can rewrite over an initial -R or +R burn.
DAO, if your burner supports it as far as I know would require installing Windows on your Mac.
Here are the options*
http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html#WINTEL
- * links to my pages may give me compensation
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