Hello LQ.org!

Someone please recommend a Linux CD/DVD burning program with GUI. Main issue is stability. I used Brasero and k3b in the past. I don't remember why I abandoned Brasero but I guess there was a good reason to. I remember it was garbage. And now I have problems with k3b: it stoped burning discs because of some bug. I get I/O error when DVD-R is about 94% done and then media goes to trash. Today I had to burn several DVDs in Windows because k3b refuses to work. And I googled this error. Looks like I'm not the only one to say that k3b became buggy.

So I need a new solution. Some GUI program which actually works stable. I just need it to work, I don't need no fancy stuff to please my eyes. I don't need Nero-like giant bloatware. Just decent useful GUI and stability, so it won't kill my CD-Rs/DVD-Rs. Need it to burn ISO images and occasionally files and dirs.

XFburn and simpleburn are the only gui burning tools I'm aware of that you haven't already ruled out. XFburn worked fine the few times I've used it, I've never used simpleburn but it's meant to be minimalistic gui tool, so sounds like it would probably be right in line with what you're looking for.

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Take a look at tkDVD if you have tk/tcl installed, it works fine. It's just a front end
to mkisofs, growisofs, genisoimage, cdrecord. So When dvd+rw-tools gets updated then it's updated.

http://regis.damongeot.free.fr/tkdvd...d-4.0.9.tar.gz

I downloaded that and checked it. You don't have to install it. Untar it and run
the TkDVD.sh

I've used it for years on BSD and Linux, couldn't get much simpler and reliable.
You'll need tk/tcl and dvd+rw-tools installed.

Or you could make a script with

Make .iso from multiple directories
Burn .iso to DVD
Burn DVD from files

Dose it have to be GUI, I've never burnt C\DVD's in CLI but DD'ed some SD's; less, no code tags no pun man less could go wrong?

the KDE k3b is by far the best tool

you could always buy NERO for Windows10

that might be the brand of DVD

this is a very OLD bug but it pops up from time to time

some hardware in some computers JUST DO NOT WORK WELL WITH SOME BRANDS OF DISKS

try a different brand of dvd's

I've had the same happen from time to time, I use Brasero when it does so no help there.

I got this error with TDKs, they are VERY GOOD compared to many others. So if k3b cannot burn decent brand of blank media, too bad for k3b.

You mean you were getting I/O error in k3b too?

I like cdw. its a terminal app but its not command line driver. it uses a ncurses menu interface. very similar to simpleburn actually, but I've never had a problem with it. I've used it to make images too.

this site has some pics http://cdw.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

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Yes. Randomly, I figured the data or disc? And, I have also got lots of errors in k3b at the end of burns but the discs (mostly data) seem fine...

Thanks for the info on cdw, I never knew of that one.
The OP said that he wanted a GUI, bashburn also works fine, and does give one an interface even though it isn't x11.

I think that cdrecord/wodim, mkisofs/genisoimage, growisofs, dvd+rw-mediainfo, dvd+rw-format are the most reliable tools for optical media. Any front end that is built on top of them seem to work fine without problems.