Fwd: Re: dvd-burning/alternative to k3b?

Andrew L. Gould algould at datawok.com
Thu Feb 3 09:36:37 PST 2005


oops. I forgot to send this back to the list.

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Subject: Re: dvd-burning/alternative to k3b?
Date: Thursday 03 February 2005 09:56 am
From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould at datawok.com>
To: brianjohn at fusemail.com

On Thursday 03 February 2005 09:02 am, Brian John wrote:
> Hello,
> I was using k3b for burning but now that I am using fluxbox it looks
> like I can't use it anymore.  Is there a close alternative?  What is
> everyone using for cd and dvd burning?
>
> Thanks
>
> /Brian

I use cdrecord (for CD's) and growisofs for DVD's.  They are both
command line applications; but if you always use the same media and
options you could write a simple script that prompts for the variable
information.

For example, when burning DVD's, I always use DVD-R's and the command:

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0c -r -l [path_to_data_to_burn]

A simple script would prompt for the directory I want to burn and would
build and execute the proper command.

If you wanted to get fancy, the script could have a configuration file
for static info and would prompt for:

1. burning cd's vs dvd's (cdrecord vs growisofs)
2. single burn session vs RW (and initial burn vs subsequent burn)
3. burn existing iso image vs directory vs mkisofs, then burn iso image

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould

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