Brasero and libburn/libisofs/libisoburn
 

Hi,

The CD/DVD burning application Brasero can optionally be built against libburn/libisofs/libisoburn.

What extra functionality is provided by these libraries? In what way will Brasero work differently if it is built against them?

Hi Niki,

these pages from the Libburnia project, which includes the libraries you mention, describe what they are for:

libburn
libisofs
libisoburn

The latter is a front-end for the former two. I guess that without them you won't have the described features.

Very best wishes,

Philip

Hi,

i am the maintainer of the libburnia libraries.

I am not aware that Brasero uses extra functionality when having them as backend. Nevertheless they offer the opportunity to do ISO 9660 production and media burning by a completely different implementation of the backend. This may help to distinguish Brasero bugs from backend bugs.

libburn may replace cdrecord resp. wodim as burn backend for CDs and growisofs as burn backend for DVD. Afaik the capabilities of growisofs and libburn about BD media are not used by Brasero.
libisofs may replace mkisofs/genisoimage as ISO 9660 producer.

Brasero does not use libisoburn (although that would give it interesting xorriso features for backup and bootable ISOs).

A disadvantage of libisofs is that it does not create UDF filesystems for DVD video players.
A disadvantage of wodim and genisoimage is that their package cdrkit is not maintained any more. Even the home page of cdrkit has vanished. (Debian still has a source tarball.)
cdrecord and mkisofs are still actively developed. Their problem is more in the fact that its developer has peculiar ideas about proper social interaction.
growisofs is just fine with DVD. It has a little flaw with not yet formatted BD-R, though. Regrettably it is not maintained any more. (I can help fixing bugs.)

Have a nice day :)

Thomas

Hi Thomas,

thank you for this insight into the libburnia libraries!

Hi,

> thank you for this insight into the libburnia libraries!

Let me emphasize that the libraries do offer advantages
over Brasero's usual backends. But Brasero does not make
use of those advantages. So i cannot bragg with them here.

Have a nice day :)

Thomas