K3b

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
Preview release
Compatibility
Operating system	Linux/BSD
Additional information
Use	CD/DVD Authoring
License	GPL
Website	http://www.k3b.org/

Introduction

What is K3b? 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 growofis 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 direcories within your project.
• Write data cds 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 multible El-Torito boot images.
• Multisession support

CD Copying

• Copy single and multi session data CDs
• Copy Audio CDs
• Copy Enhanced Audio CDs (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 DVDs
• Formatting DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs

Screenshots

• K3b Splash Screen this a screenshot of K3b splash screen
• K3b Layout this is a screenshot of K3b main CD/DVD creator layout window.

K3b Guides

• k3B and Nero AAC Guide user guide for configuring Nero AAC encoder for use with K3b

Development API

External links

• K3b Handbook the official K3b handbook for using the application.