Best Linux burning software?
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K3B is the CDRW mastering and burning king: Data CD's, fullspec audio CD's, mixed mode, exact/secure audio ripper, VCD 1.1, 2.0, SVCD, CD-i support (Version 4), DVD Ripping and DivX/XviD encoding, ISO and cue/bin burning, initialization of IDE burners without the old tricky IDE2SCSI alchemistic invention... exhellent stuff.
Compiling it is quite tricky, as it uses a lot of gtk and qt resources, but it's almost sure you will find a pre-compiled one for your distro at rpmseek.com
It also comes now as default burner app at both SuSE and Mandrake.
Only thing it misses is DVD burning, as the current status of cdrecord-pro dvd is rather tricky... You have to wait for that, or use cdrecord-pro dvd via console. The alternative is using commercial software (Gear pro Unix v. 4.11) which goes for $ 799 and is a huge piece of crap.
Compiling it is quite tricky, as it uses a lot of gtk and qt resources, but it's almost sure you will find a pre-compiled one for your distro at rpmseek.com
It also comes now as default burner app at both SuSE and Mandrake.
Only thing it misses is DVD burning, as the current status of cdrecord-pro dvd is rather tricky... You have to wait for that, or use cdrecord-pro dvd via console. The alternative is using commercial software (Gear pro Unix v. 4.11) which goes for $ 799 and is a huge piece of crap.
Actually k3b uses both cdrecord and cdrdao- and you can even choose one of the two manually before burning (or set one of them automatically as default).
In general CDRDAO is the sturdiest burner, although some things in it and in particular the device libraries need revision, IMHO. It also allows burning disks longer than 80 minutes, while cdrecord doesn't (does not support overburning).
Also if you burn multisession in one go (eg CD-extra, mixed mode etc) you have to pick up cdrecord- CDRDAO does not work (at least as it's implemented in K3B).
In general CDRDAO is the sturdiest burner, although some things in it and in particular the device libraries need revision, IMHO. It also allows burning disks longer than 80 minutes, while cdrecord doesn't (does not support overburning).
Also if you burn multisession in one go (eg CD-extra, mixed mode etc) you have to pick up cdrecord- CDRDAO does not work (at least as it's implemented in K3B).