- Comparison of disc authoring software
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This comparison of disc authoring software compares different optical disc authoring software.
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Application
General information
Basic general information about the application.
Application Creator Cost (USD) Software license Ashampoo Burning Studio Ashampoo Software ? Shareware (Trial Available) Alcohol 120% Alcohol Soft $38.00 Shareware (30-day trial) BashBurn Anders Linden Free GPL CDBurnerXP Stefan Haglund, Fredrik Haglund Free Proprietary [1] cdrtools Joerg Schilling Free GPL, CDDL Graveman Sylvain Crest Free GPL ImgBurn LIGHTNING UK! Free Proprietary [2] InfraRecorder Christian Kindahl Free GPL K3b Sebastian Trüg, Christian Kvasny Free GPL Nero Burning ROM Ahead Software $99.00 Shareware (Trial Available) PowerISO PowerISO Computing, Inc. $29.95 Shareware (Trial Available[1]) UltraISO EZB Systems $29.00 Shareware (Trial Available) X-CD-Roast T. Niederreiter Free GPL Application Creator Cost (USD) Software license Operating system support
Please note that the list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common operating systems.
Application Microsoft Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix Alcohol 120% Yes No No No No BashBurn No Yes Yes Yes Yes CDBurnerXP Yes No No No No cdrtools Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Graveman No ? Yes Yes ? ImgBurn Yes No No No No InfraRecorder Yes No No No No K3b No No Yes Yes No Nero Burning ROM Yes No Yes No No PowerISO Yes No Partial No No UltraISO Yes No No No No X-CD-Roast No Yes Yes Yes Yes Application Microsoft Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix Optical media support
Which single-sided optical media types the application supports.
Please note that the list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common types in use (ie. not the now defunct HD DVD-R & UDO)Application CD-R/W DVD-R/RW/RAM DVD+R/RW DVD+R/RW DL DVD-R/RW DL BD-R/RE BD-R/RE DL Alcohol 120% Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No BashBurn Yes Yes Yes ? ? No No CDBurnerXP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes cdrtools Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Graveman Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No ImgBurn Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? InfraRecorder Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No K3b Yes Yes Yes No No No No Nero Burning ROM Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? PowerISO Yes Yes Yes ? ? No No UltraISO Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes X-CD-Roast Yes Yes Yes ? ? No No Application CD-R/W 737MB=702MiB DVD-R/RW/RAM 4.707GB=4.384GiB DVD+R/RW 4.700GB=4.378GiB DVD+R/RW DL 8.548GB=7.961GiB DVD-R/RW DL 8.544GB=7.957GiB BD-R/RE 25GB=23.31GiB BD-R/RE DL 50GB=46.61GiB Filesystem support
Which filesystems the application supports.
Application ISO 9660 Joliet Rock Ridge Amiga rock ridge El Torito Apple ISO9660 UDF MRW Alcohol 120% Yes Yes No No No No No No BashBurn Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No CDBurnerXP Yes Yes No No No No Yes No cdrtools Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Graveman Yes Yes Yes No No No No No ImgBurn Yes Yes No No No No Yes No InfraRecorder Yes Yes ? ? ? ? Yes ? K3b Yes Yes Yes ? No No No No Nero Burning ROM Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes PowerISO Yes ? No No No No No No UltraISO Yes Yes ? ? ? ? Yes ? X-CD-Roast Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No No Application ISO 9660 Joliet Rock Ridge Amiga rockridge El Torito Apple ISO9660 UDF MRW Disk image format support
Information which Disk image formats an application supports.
Application bin/cue Apple disk image img ISO image Nero CD image Audio file/cue Alcohol 120% Yes No No Yes Yes No BashBurn Yes ? Yes Yes No ? CDBurnerXP Partial[2] No No Yes Partial[2] Yes cdrtools Yes ? ? Yes No Yes Graveman ? ? ? Yes ? ? ImgBurn Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes InfraRecorder Yes No Yes Yes No ? K3b Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes Nero Burning ROM Yes No Partial Yes Yes Yes PowerISO Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ? UltraISO Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes X-CD-Roast ? ? ? Yes ? ? Application bin/cue Apple disk image img ISO image Nero CD image Audio file/cue Standards support
Support for Rainbow Books.
- Red book - Standard audio CD
- Yellow book - Standard CD-ROM
- Orange Book - CD-R and CD-RW
- White Book - Video CD, VCD and SVCD
- Blue book - Enhanced CD
- Beige book - Photo CD
- Green book - CD-i discs
- Purple book - Double Density Compact Disc
- Scarlet book - Super Audio CD
Application Red Yellow Orange White Blue Beige Green Purple Scarlet Alcohol 120% No Yes Yes No No No No No No BashBurn Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? CDBurnerXP Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No cdrtools Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Graveman Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No ImgBurn Yes Yes Yes No[3] ? ? Yes No ? InfraRecorder ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? K3b Yes ? Yes Yes Yes No Yes No ? Nero Burning ROM Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No PowerISO ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? UltraISO Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? X-CD-Roast Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No Application Red (CDDA) Yellow (CD-ROM) Orange (CD-R) White (VCD) Blue (ECD) Beige (PCD) Green (CD-I) Purple (DDCD) Scarlet (SACD) User interface
Information which User interfaces an application supports.
Application Command line interface Graphical user interface Text user interface Alcohol 120% No Yes No BashBurn No No Yes CDBurnerXP No Yes No cdrtools Yes No No Graveman No Yes No ImgBurn No Yes No InfraRecorder No Yes No K3b Yes Yes No Nero Burning ROM No Yes No PowerISO No Yes No UltraISO No Yes No X-CD-Roast No Yes No Application Command line interface Graphical user interface Text user interface Miscellaneous features
Application Overburning Buffer underrun protection Virtual burner See also
- Optical disc authoring software
- List of optical disc authoring software
- Comparison of ISO image software
Notes
- ^ Free version displays a nag screen and limits disk image files to 300MB
- ^ a b Unsupported format can be converted to a supported one.
- ^ http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=3010
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