K3b
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 Screenshot of K3b version 21.12.0 on Arch Linux | |
| Original author(s) | Sebastian Trüg |
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| Developer(s) | KDE |
| Stable release | 23.08.3[1] 
/ 9 November 2023 |
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| Written in | KDE Platform |
| Type | Optical disc authoring |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later[2][3] |
| Website | apps |
K3b (from KDE Burn Baby Burn)growisofs. As of version 1.0, K3b features a built-in DVD ripper.
As is the case with most KDE applications, K3b is written in the C++ programming language and uses the Qt GUI toolkit.[5][6] Released under the GNU General Public License, K3b is free software.
A first alpha of a
KDE Platform 4 version of K3b was released on 22 April 2009, the second on 27 May 2009 and a third on 14 October 2009.[7][8][9]
K3b is a software project that was started in 1998, and is one of the mainstays of the KDE desktop.[citation needed]
Features
Some of K3b's main features include:
- Data CD/DVD burning;
- Audio CD burning;
- CD-Textsupport;
- DVD+RWsupport;
- CD-R/CD-RW support;
- Mixed Mode CD (CD-DA and -ROM on one disc);
- Multisession CD;
- Video DVDauthoring;
- eMovix CD/eMovix DVD;
- Disk-to-disk CD and DVD copying;
- Erasing Rewritable discs;
- ISO imagesupport;
- Ripping Audio CDs, Video CDs, Video DVDs.
K3b can also burn data CDs that support Linux/Unix based OS, Windows, DOS,
Joliet
file systems.
K3b's full list of features (the below list could be still incomplete):
- Creating data CDs:
- Add files and folders to data CD project via drag and drop;
- Remove files from your project, move files within your project;
- Create empty directories within your project;
- Write data CDs on-the-fly directly without an image file or with image file. It's also possible to just create the image file and write it to CD later;
- Jolietfile system support;
- Rename files within the project;
- Let K3b rename all the mp3/oggfiles you add to your project to a common format like "artist - title.mp3;
- For advanced users: support for nearly all the mkisofsoptions;
- Verifying the burned data;
- Support for multiple El-Toritoboot images;
- Multisession support.
- Creating audio CDs:
- Pluggable audio decoding. Plugins for WAV, mp3, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis are included;
- CD-Textsupport. Will automagically be filled in from tags in audio files;
- Write audio CDs on-the-fly, without decoding audio files to wav before;
- Normalize volume levels before writing;
- Cut audio tracks at the beginning and the end.
- Creating Video CDs:
- VCD 1.1, 2.0, SVCD;
- CD-i support (Version 4).
- VCD 1.1, 2.0,
- Creating mixed-mode CDs:
- CD-Extra (CD-Plus, Enhanced Audio CD) support;
- All data and audio project features.
- Creating eMovix CDs.
- CD Copying:
- Copy single and multi session data CDs;
- Copy Audio CDs;
- Copy Enhanced Audio CDs (CD-Extra);
- Copy CD-Text;
- Add CD-Text from CDDB;
- CD Cloning mode for perfect single session CD copies.
- DVD Burning:
- Support for DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W);
- Creating data DVD projects;
- Creating eMovix DVDs;
- Formatting DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs.
- CD Ripping:
- CDDB support via http, cddbp and local cddb directory;
- Sophisticated pattern system to automatically organize the ripped tracks in directories and name them according to album, title, artist, and track number;
- CD-Text reading. May be used instead of CDDB info;
- K3b stores CDDB info of the ripped tracks which will automatically be used as CD-Text when adding the ripped files to an audio project;
- Plugin system to allow encoding to virtually every audio format. Plugins to encode to Ogg Vorbis, mp3, FLAC, and all formats supported by SoX included.
- DVD Ripping and DivX/XviD encoding.
- Save/load projects.
- Blanking of CD-RWs.
- Retrieving Table of contents and cdr information.
- Writing existing iso images to CD or DVD with optional verification of the written data.
- Writing cue/bin files created for CDRWIN.
- DVD copy (no video transcoding yet).
- Enhanced CD device handling:
- Detection of maximal writing and reading speed.
- Detection of Burnfree and Justlink support.
- Good media detection and optional automatic CD-RW and DVD-RW blanking.
- KParts-Plugin ready.
See also
- List of optical disc authoring software
- Comparison of DVD ripper software
- GTK+optical disc authoring program.
References
- ^ Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
- ^ Ohloh. Retrieved 2010-05-14.
- ^ "K3b sources - COPYING". websvn.kde.org. Retrieved 2010-05-14.[dead link]
- ^ "K[4]B?". 17 April 2006. Retrieved 2009-03-11.
- ^ "Developer's View". Archived from the original on 2007-02-02. Retrieved 2007-03-20.
- ^ "Language bindings". Archived from the original on 2007-03-29. Retrieved 2007-03-20.
- ^ "Project home page announcement". Retrieved 2009-05-18.
- ^ "Mandriva helps porting K3b in Qt4". Archived from the original on 2009-03-24. Retrieved 2009-03-24.
- ^ "Intermission: Why I Needed To Fork QProcess For K3b". 23 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-23.
- ^ "K3b 2.0 released". Retrieved 2010-08-15.
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