K3b

K3b is a CD burning program for KDE for creating CDs, DVDs and Blu -ray discs. It has a graphical user interface that is designed to enable the user to perform all tasks of the CD and DVD burning as intuitively as possible. K3b is developed since 1998. In March 2007 she released version 1.0 for KDE 3 and 27 June 2010, the first based on KDE 4 version 2.0 has been released.

The name K3b is the short notation for KBBB, which stands for "KDE Burn Baby, Burn! ".

Operation

Strictly speaking, K3b is a graphical interface for a variety of programs, which provide the basic functions for burning DVDs and CDs in GNU / Linux ( or other Unix -like systems ) on the command line are available. K3b is used as a front -end and simplified by bundling the functionality of these programs, the handling considerably, since the user does not come into direct contact with them. This means that the user must follow the individual programs with their options not know and through graphical interface and mouse can get to its destination.

The K3b interface supports simple drag and drop both within the program, as well as from other programs (for example, from the Dolphin file manager ). Also K3b can serve as a utility for other KDE applications, such as the media player Amarok. This is made possible by the use of D-Bus, which provides communication functions between programs.

Functions

The features and capabilities of K3b depend on the installed applications ( and libraries), can rely on the K3b on the respective system. For a complete installation of all required programs results in a very large range of functions:

• Burning CD -Rs and CD -RWs ( delete )
• Burning of mixed-mode CDs, data CDs, audio CDs, (S ) VCDs and CDs eMovix
• Burning a variety of memory dump types ( Cue / Bin TOC)
• Burning DVD ± R and DVD ± RW ( delete )
• Burning DVD ± R DL
• Burn ISO 9660 CD and DVD images
• Burn Blu -ray
• Conversion of audio files in the formats MP3, Ogg Vorbis, etc.

Here are eMovix media CDs or DVDs that contain even a small GNU / Linux -based operating system in addition to the actual film. Order to allow booting from CD or DVD, a computer, and so requires no installed software to play the CD or DVD.

The range of audio formats out of which can be burned to CD, is also dependent on the software installed. On a full, free system they include Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and RIFF WAVE PCM (. Wav). Optional MP3, Musepack and Monkey's Audio support.

Since version 2.0, K3b, which appeared in June 2010, the writing of Blu- ray Discs supported.