K3b

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K3b

K3b


Screenshot of K3b 1.0
Developer:	Sebastian Trüg, Christian Kvasny
Stable release	1.0.5 (27 May 2008)
OS:	Unix-like
Platform:	[[Platform::KDE]]
Genre:	Optical disc authoring
License:	GNU General Public License
Website:	http://k3b.org/

K3b (from KDE Burn Baby Burn)^[1] is a CD and DVD authoring application for the KDE desktop environment for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as more advanced tasks such as burning eMoviX CD/DVDs. It can also perform direct disc-to-disc copies. The program has many default settings which can be customized by more experienced users. The actual disc recording in K3b is done by the command line utilities cdrecord or wodim, cdrdao, and growisofs. As of version 1.0, K3b features a built-in DVD ripper.

K3b was voted LinuxQuestions.org's Multimedia Utility of the Year (2006) by the majority (70%) of voters. ^[2]

As is the case with most KDE applications, K3b is written in the C++ programming language and uses the Qt GUI toolkit.^[3]^[4] Released under the GNU General Public License, K3b is free software.

[edit] Features

Some of K3B's features include:

Data CD/DVD burning
Audio CD burning
CD Text support
DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD-RW/DVD+RW support
CD-R/CD-RW support
Mixed Mode CD (Audio and Data on one disk)
Multisession CD
Video CD/Video DVD authoring
eMovix CD/eMovix DVD
Disk to Disk CD and DVD copy
Erasing CD-RW/DVD-RW/DVD+RW
ISO image support
Ripping Audio CDs, Video CDs, Video DVDs

K3B can also burn data CDs that support Linux/Unix based OS, Windows, DOS, Very Large Files (UDF), Linux/Unix + Windows, Rock Ridge, Joliet file systems.

[edit] References

↑ K[4]B?. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
↑ Multimedia Utility of the Year. Retrieved on 2007-03-20.
↑ Developer's View. Retrieved on 2007-03-20.
↑ Language bindings. Retrieved on 2007-03-20.

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