What to use to burn CDs/DVDs in Ubuntu?

Ekkume · 05-05-2005, 10:36 AM

I have used Mandrake 10.1 until I now and I have used KDE and K3b.
Now in Ubuntu running Gnome, I am a little lost. I haven't much used
the command line tools like cdrecord.
Is there something similar to K3B I can install in Ubuntu that will do the job?

Thanks,

Ekkume

azucaro · 05-05-2005, 10:49 AM

I've never seen something as sleek as K3B for KDE, but there is xcdroast and gnome-toaster to use in gnome.

Daliz · 05-05-2005, 01:15 PM

You can install K3b anyway.. it'll of course install the necessary KDE-packages as well.

I don't even have a CD/DVD-recorder on the PC where I have Ubuntu, but on this PC I use Gnome and K3b (Mandrake10.1).

Pudge · 05-05-2005, 07:01 PM

I've been using gnomebaker and like it a lot. Give it a try.

It is available in the universe repository. HERE is the wiki page.

Pudge

improverrr · 05-05-2005, 07:24 PM

well being fairly new to linux myself, i cant speak for the gnome based CD/DVD software, but I can say I like K3b alot. Used it quite abit and havent made a coaster yet! It very easy and acts alot like roxio ezcd creator..

Ekkume · 05-06-2005, 01:10 AM

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Originally posted by improverrr
well being fairly new to linux myself, i cant speak for the gnome based CD/DVD software, but I can say I like K3b alot. Used it quite abit and havent made a coaster yet! It very easy and acts alot like roxio ezcd creator..

I actually installed K3B in Ubuntu. It was in the repositories. It installed many Mb's of KDE libs as depedencies. I burnt a DVD last night and watched it, an amateur fan movie, which is free to download, Star Wars "Revelations". That was impressive.

ravee · 05-15-2005, 08:23 AM

I have been using K3b for burning Cds in linux. And I am very happy for the same.
But before K3b I used to burn Cds using cdrecord .

You can read all about it here.
http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/0...-linux_15.html

DAChristen29 · 05-15-2005, 09:09 AM

you cant beat k3b. although gnome has a built-in burning software. just pop in a blank dvd/cd, and it should pop up with a blank file folder window where you can drag and drop files and then burn.

azucaro · 05-17-2005, 07:04 PM

One small comment to add - K3b (and a lot of burning software) gets a little screwy when you deal with multisession cds. I still have to go to the command line to get it right! Nothing a small script can't handle, though...working on learning how to do it in Python as I type.

mrcheeks · 05-17-2005, 09:13 PM

gnomebaker seems to be good and it is better if you want "to keep it gnome".

hoover93 · 05-18-2005, 08:51 PM

i agree gnomebaker is a capable cd/dvd burner for gnome. just like you, my previous experience burning dvd's with a gui was k3b on suse.

in fact, i had never used gnome prior to trying ubuntu. i knew it was possible to install k3b on ubuntu, but i wanted to keep my system "pure" without all the kde libraries.

try gnomebaker - an easy gui dvd burner written specifically for gnome.