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Old 10-12-2005, 05:43 PM   #1
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Burning CDs program for Linux


what is the best program for burning CDs on Linux?
 
Old 10-12-2005, 06:35 PM   #2
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It is difficult to say whichone is the best.
Fedora comes with the optional built in installation of X-CD-Roast
 
Old 10-12-2005, 07:11 PM   #3
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K3b is great!
 
Old 10-12-2005, 07:35 PM   #4
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best i would have to say the old classic cdrecord, but i do have to say i like k3b as a GUI front end for cdrecord.
 
Old 10-12-2005, 08:07 PM   #5
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Latest favorite of mine is graveman (graveman.tuxfamily.org/).
It is much lighter than k3b, it has a clean interface, just enough to get the job done. Simply awesome.

Also checkout the wiki page on our favorite linux site:
http://http://wiki.linuxquestions.or...CD/DVD_Burning

Last edited by sasho; 10-12-2005 at 09:18 PM.
 
Old 10-13-2005, 07:05 AM   #6
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Quote:
Originally posted by sasho
Also checkout the wiki page on our favorite linux site:
http://http://wiki.linuxquestions.or...CD/DVD_Burning
Broken link =
 
Old 10-13-2005, 07:22 AM   #7
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http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Burning_a_CD

That ought to do ya!

I like cdrecord and growisofs and because you need root privavledges to burn CDs on my machine so its easier and securer to do `sudo cdrecord ...` then mess about allowing root to run gui apps.
 
Old 10-13-2005, 07:43 AM   #8
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Can someone explain this "cdrecord"? Is this an application that must be installed or a service in Linux that will allow me to burn cd's via CLI?
 
Old 10-13-2005, 08:19 AM   #9
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It is normally installed by default. It is actually needed as a backend for K3B, et al.

I find it easier to use cdrecord and mkisofs to burn cds:
For a Data CD
Code:
mkisofs -r -o cd_image.iso directory
where directory is where the files are that you want burned, then:

Code:
cdrecord -v speed=52 dev=/dev/hdd -data cd_image.iso
See the man pages for more info.

I hope this helps
--Ian
 
Old 10-13-2005, 03:00 PM   #10
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you can also pipe that together into 1 command:

Code:
mkisofs -r -o cd_image.iso directory | cdrecord -v speed=52 dev=/dev/hdd -data cd_image.iso
so in 1 command you make the iso image of the directory, then you burn it out to the CD all at one time. great way to safely and quickly create a CD backup of important files.
 
Old 10-13-2005, 03:12 PM   #11
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Forgive me if I'm off track here, but does that work how you think?

mkisofs is outputting the iso image to a file 'cd_image.iso' and not to stdout. Also cdrecord is getting the iso data from the file 'cd_image.iso' not stdin. So the iso data is not being passed through the pipe from mkisofs to cdrecord, the pipe is effectively useless, you may aswell do
Code:
mkisofs -r -o cd_image.iso directory; cdrecord -v speed=52 dev=/dev/hdd -data cd_image.iso
Again, if my understanding of the two commands is wrong please correct me

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Edit:

To make an iso image and direct the iso data to cdrecord using a pipe you can do it like this:
Code:
mkisofs -r directory | cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd -v speed=52 -
This is from http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Lin...ialCDBurn.html

Last edited by phil.d.g; 10-13-2005 at 03:22 PM.
 
Old 10-13-2005, 03:25 PM   #12
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that is much more accuate then what i posted. sorry i just took the other guys code and piped them together... since i started using k3b i have not used cdrecord. been about 2 years now.
 
  


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