[RndTbl] CD, VCD & DVD Burning

[John Lange]

Thanks very much for your assessment Tim.

Its too bad that it still tries to use all those command line tools as
so many of them are buggy, out-of-date and/or unsupported. It also means
you have to chase down dozens of add-on files if you want to burn
anything. Now that I know this I'm far less tempted to get a new burner
and give it a try.

Hopefully they have done a good job on improving the GUI.

Thanks for your insight.

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On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 01:09, Tim Lavoie wrote:
> >>>>> "John" == John Lange <john.lange at bighostbox.com> writes:
> 
>     John> At a recent MUUG meeting someone was asking about burning
>     John> VCDs (Video CDs). I believe the consensus at the meeting was
>     John> that burning under Linux was comprised of a hodge-podge of
>     John> various command line tools for converting video formats and
>     John> burning making it quite difficult at best.
> 
>     John> I recently stumbled on the following software:
> 
>     John> http://www.k3b.org/
> 
>     John> which seems to bring everything under one roof and claims to
>     John> do CD, VCD, and DVD burning all in one application (it does
>     John> not appear to be just a GUI front end to command line
>     John> tools).
> 
>     John> However, I do not currently have a burner to test it with so
>     John> I was hoping someone from the group could give it a whirl
>     John> and report back on success?
> 
> Hey John,
> 
> I just have a regular CD burner, so I grabbed a few commercials in
> MPEG format, and tried out the VCD creation. I'm completely winging
> it, having just bought the DVD player a couple days ago, but the
> process seems to work OK. It helps to have some CD-RWs around to
> experiment, so you can just do a quick blank and try something else.
> 
> The K3B program does call others as well, such as cdrecord and cdrdao,
> and it expects (or at least hopes) to be able to run some of them as
> SUID root. It does handle the permissions setup for you though, which
> would be handy for the Linux newbies.
> 
> The interface is very pretty, but seems functional enough. Probably
> typical for KDE, I'm not sure.
> 
> Debian (testing) has packages for K3D and those programs it depends
> on, so installation was trivial as usual. What else? I dunno, I'll
> probably use it again.
> 
>   Cheers,
>   Tim
> 
> 
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