K3b

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K3b
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K3b the CD/DVD Kreator
Developer(s) Sebastrian Trueg, Christian Kvasny
Release information
Initial release {{{released}}}
Stable release 0.12.17
Preview release 1.0pre2
Compatibility
Operating system Linux/BSD
Additional information
Use CD/DVD Authoring
License GPL
Website http://www.k3b.org/

Introduction

K3B is a CD/DVD authoring application frontend written for KDE interface under GNU/Linux. K3b effectively makes use of command-line utilities CDRDAO, CDRecord and growisofs to handle the actual writing of information to a disc.

Features

These are some common features that K3b supports like most CD/DVD burning applications:

Data CD's

  • Add files and folders to your data CD project via drag'n'drop.
  • Remove files from your project, move files within your project.
  • Create empty directories within your project.
  • Write data CD's on-the-fly directly without an image file or with image file. It's also possible to just create the image file and write it to CD later.
  • Rockridge and Joliet file system support.
  • Rename files in your project.
  • Let K3b rename all the mp3/ogg files you add to your project to a common format like "artist - title.mp3".
  • For advanced users: support for nearly all the mkisofs options.
  • Verifying the burned data.
  • Support for multiple El-Torito boot images.
  • Multi-session support

CD Copying

  • Copy single and multi-session data CD's
  • Copy Audio CD's
  • Copy Enhanced Audio CD's (CD-Extra)
  • Copy CD-Text
  • Add CD-Text from CDDB
  • CD Cloning mode for perfect single session CD copies

DVD Writing

  • Support for DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W)
  • Creating data DVD projects
  • Creating eMovix DVD's
  • Formatting DVD-RW's and DVD+RW's

Screenshots

K3b Guides

Development API

Optional components

Optional plugin-ins that can be used with K3b for encoding, decoding, ripping, and misc purposes.

External links

  • K3b Handbook the official K3b handbook for using the application. (PDF)
  • k3b vs. Nero Linux comparison between both applications and their numerous features.