K3b
 K3b the CD/DVD Kreator | |
| Developer(s) | Sebastian Trüg, christian Kvansy, Michał Małek |
| Release information | |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2.0.2 |
| Compatibility | |
| Operating system | Linux/BSD |
| Additional information | |
| Use | CD/DVD Authoring |
| License | GPL v2 |
| Website | http://www.k3b.org |
Introduction
K3b Version 2.0.2 Using KDE Development Platform 4.11.2
http://www.k3b.org Licence: GNU General Public Licence Version 2 (GPL v2)
K3b is a full-featured CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning and ripping application. It supports a variety of project types as well as copying of optical media, burning of different types of images, and ripping Audio CDs, Video CDs, and Video DVDs. Its convenient user interface is targeted at all audiences, trying to be as simple as possible for novice users while also providing all features an advanced user might need.
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
- K3b effectively makes use of command-line utilities CDRDAO, CDRecord and growisofs to handle the actual writing of information to a disc.
K3b Guides
- K3b and Nero AAC user guide for configuring Nero AAC encoder for use with K3b
Development API
Optional components
Optional plugin-ins that can be used with K3b for encoding, decoding, ripping, and misc purposes.
libMADlibparanoialibvorbislibFLAC++liblamelibmpcdeclibsndfilelibavcodeclibmusicbrainz
External links
- K3b Handbook the official K3b handbook for using the application. (PDF)