Alternative to K3B

[BigAl-sa]

Anyone have an alternative to K3b for CD/DVD burning? K3b irritates me that it hangs when trying to verify data DVDs (ok with CDs, but that uses a different backend). This, unfortunately, has not been fixed with the k/ubuntu 9.04 upgrade.

 

[blaaislaai]

Brasero

 

[milomak]

there's also xcdroast.

 

[BigAl-sa]

Thanks guys - will check them out as soon as tenet comes back on line.

milomak: can xcdroast to DVDs? Everything in the blurb from synaptic seems to indicate CDs only

 

[MyWorld]

Graveman as well.
http://graveman.tuxfamily.org/

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Brasero

+1

Its one of those apps you always write off cause the interface is plain. But it just works.

 

[Swift-wp]

I know i'm going to get flamed, but here I go.lol. I prefer NeroLinux.

 

[BigAl-sa]

Checked out Brasero yesterday. Simple enough to use, but a big disadvantage for me is that you cannot change the volume labels.

 

[milomak]

Thanks guys - will check them out as soon as tenet comes back on line.

milomak: can xcdroast to DVDs? Everything in the blurb from synaptic seems to indicate CDs only

http://www.xcdroast.org/manual/dvd.html

 

[BigAl-sa]

there's also xcdroast.

Can't get it to run under Kubuntu 9.04. Get an error:
"** (xcdroast:9656): WARNING **: Failed to access cdrecord. Please check the permissions and ownership of /usr/bin/cdrecord"

cdrecord is a link to wodim.

 

[milomak]

try sudo chmod 777 /usr/bin/cdrecord. that does mean that any user can run he cdrecord command.

 

[BigAl-sa]

try sudo chmod 777 /usr/bin/cdrecord. that does mean that any user can run he cdrecord command.

cdrecord is already on 777 (and wodim on 751). xcdroast wants to be run as su when you start it the first time. (BTW, I get the same error on both my home and work PCs.)

 

[milomak]

no need to run as root first on fedora

 

[.Froot.]

+100 for Brasero. I use both K3B (mostly) and Brasero... both are pretty awesome in my opinion.

 

[BigAl-sa]

no need to run as root first on fedora

I get this popup message when starting xcdroast as me:

"No root configuration file found or not readable! The superuser must start and configure X-CD-Roast first, before other users can use it."

I'm going to redo a box today and put Ubuntu on that and see whether I get the same probs.

 

[milomak]

I tried xcdroast on my gentoo install and got the same message you did. I am guessing once you run it as root initially after that you can run it as any user?

 

[BigAl-sa]

I tried xcdroast on my gentoo install and got the same message you did. I am guessing once you run it as root initially after that you can run it as any user?

No, that's where it unfortunately dies with the message I gave in an earlier post. It may be quite interesting to see what is in that config file, but I have no idea where it's hidden, especially if it requires root privileges to create.

 

[milomak]

don't know then. why not try brasero then?

 

[Smiley_lauf]

Also check out the old gnomebaker http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomebaker
it seems to have been discontinued--last update June 2008??