K3b

infobox software
name = K3b



caption = Screenshot of K3b 1.0
developer = Sebastian Trüg, Christian Kvasny
latest release version = 1.0.5
latest release date = release date and age|2008|05|27
programming language = C++ Qt
operating_system = Unix-like
platform = KDE
genre = Optical disc authoring
license = GNU General Public License
website = http://k3b.org/

K3b (from KDE Burn Baby Burn) [cite web |url=http://dot.kde.org/1145245411/1145247602/ |title=K [4] B? |accessdate=2007-08-08] is a CD and DVD authoring application for the KDE desktop environment for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as more advanced tasks such as burning eMoviX CD/DVDs. It can also perform direct disc-to-disc copies. The program has many default settings which can be customized by more experienced users. The actual disc recording in K3b is done by the command line utilities cdrecord or wodim, cdrdao, and growisofs. As of version 1.0, K3b features a built-in DVD ripper.

K3b was voted LinuxQuestions.org's Multimedia Utility of the Year (2006) by the majority (70%) of voters. [cite web |url=http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=514982 |title=Multimedia Utility of the Year |accessdate=2007-03-20]

As is the case with most KDE applications, K3b is written in the C++ programming language and uses the Qt GUI toolkit. [Cite web |url=http://kde.org/whatiskde/devview.php |title=Developer's View |accessdate=2007-03-20] [cite web |url=http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/ |title=Language bindings |accessdate=2007-03-20] Released under the GNU General Public License, K3b is free software.

Features

Some of K3B's features include:
* Data CD/DVD burning
* Audio CD burning
* CD Text support
* DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD-RW/DVD+RW support
* CD-R/CD-RW support
* Mixed Mode CD (Audio and Data on one disk)
* Multisession CD
* Video CD/Video DVD authoring
* eMovix CD/eMovix DVD
* Disk to Disk CD and DVD copy
* Erasing CD-RW/DVD-RW/DVD+RW
* ISO image support
* Ripping Audio CDs, Video CDs, Video DVDsK3B can also burn data CDs that support Linux/Unix based OS, Windows, DOS, Very Large Files (UDF), Linux/Unix + Windows, Rock Ridge, Joliet file systems.

References

External links

* [http://www.k3b.org/ K3b website]
* [http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-multimedia/k3b/index.html The K3b Handbook]