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Amity88 Apprentice
Joined: 03 Jul 2010 Posts: 260 Location: Third planet from the Sun
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 8:15 am Post subject: Disk burning software choice |
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Hey guys,
I've been wondering what package you people use for disk authoring. I've tried a few: xfburn, brasero, cdrtools(yep the command line program) but each have their own set of problems. brasero and cdrtools doesn't seem to allow multisession DVD+R burning, xfburn has a strange interface... I haven't used k3b yet, but since I use gnome, I'll have to install a lot of packages that I won't need otherwise. _________________
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ronmon Veteran
Joined: 15 Apr 2002 Posts: 1043 Location: Key West, FL
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:42 am Post subject: |
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I never found a GUI burner that I liked, so I use "bashburn". It's a nifty interactive command line tool that does pretty much anything very simply. Once you make a bashburn tmp directory somewhere, just make a link in there to whatever image or directory you want to burn and have at it. Works great.
http://bashburn.dose.se/ _________________ Ask Questions the Smart Way - by ESR |
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ppurka Advocate
Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:54 am Post subject: |
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My suggestion would be k3b. You can access all advanced functionality. But for basic burning, all you need to do is click on "burn", ignoring the rest of the options.
I haven't tried burning dvds but for normal data burning, it does multisession automatically. _________________ emerge --quiet redefined | E17 vids: I, II | Now using kde5 | e is unstable :-/ |
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Amity88 Apprentice
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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I never had any problems with CDs. Just DVDs
@ronmon, I don't mind trying it out, but have you burned multisession DVD+R?
@ppurka, I was looking for alternatives, with k3b I would have to install a lot of dependencies (I use gnome) _________________
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dmpogo Advocate
Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 3267 Location: Canada
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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For a console based tools, I have recently noticed 'cdw'. Looks quite neat and easier to use than bashburn, being ncurses based |
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ronmon Veteran
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:48 am Post subject: |
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Yes, bashburn does multi-session DVD+R. It is in portage, and a very quick emerge since it is really just a script, so you probably should just give it a try. There should be no dependencies that are not already installed. _________________ Ask Questions the Smart Way - by ESR |
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 13047 Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, I use K3B since 2005 and I never had any problem with that soft. |
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Amity88 Apprentice
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Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 2:58 am Post subject: |
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ok, I'll try out Bashburn.... this is gonna freak out my Windows friends .... if nothing goes I guess I'll just fall back to k3b
/edit1: Hey bashburn is cool, when I heard 'script' I didn't expect it to be this interactive. _________________
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ronmon Veteran
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Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 11:50 am Post subject: |
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Yep, it is highly intuitive and extremely easy to use. It is way better than any GUI app I have used. Thought you might like it. _________________ Ask Questions the Smart Way - by ESR |
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Amity88 Apprentice
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Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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@ronmon,
Yeh, I love it. Thanks for telling me about it. I played around with it a bit..... did you write that guide? _________________
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