Optical disc authoring#Software

When burning program or burning software is called computer programs for writing (burning ) of optical storage media with the help of suitable hardware, usually CD and DVD burner as well as HD DVD and Blu- ray burners.

An internal software can either own files on a storage medium or all storage media, such as DVD movies copy. Different data storage options are possible: The pure data CD, music CD, video DVD or bootable CD / DVD. With burning programs also dumps are possible. Burning programs are also used for data protection (backup ).

With the advent of the first CD - burner users have had the opportunity, software and music CDs to copy almost exactly as requested, what is now often tries to avoid using copy protection facilities.

Applications firing programs

Burning programs are used for different purposes, such as to create:

  • Audio CD: CD with audio tracks ( music, audio books, ...)
  • Photo CD: CD with images ( for example: Kodak Photo CD)
  • DVD - Video: DVD with a video (Movie) or
  • Data CD: CD / DVD with data from / to computer (eg backup).

Methods for describing optical media

Optical storage can be described in various modes.

  • Session-At -Once created one or more tracks in a session ( firing / working period ), it may be a disk record multiple sessions ( multisession disc ).
  • Packet - Writing: write data as required in small units to the optical data, as otherwise in magnetic media ( hard disk, floppy ) is common.

Overview burning programs

DVD -R / DVD -RW /

DVD R / DVD RW / DVD R DL /

DVD -R / DVD -RW /

DVD R / DVD RW /

DVD -R / DVD -RW / DVD -R DL /

DVD R / DVD RW / DVD R DL /

DVD-RAM

DVD -R / DVD -RW /

DVD R / DVD RW / DVD R DL /

DVD -R / DVD -RW /

DVD R / DVD RW / DVD R DL /

DVD - RAM /

BD- R / BD -RE / BD-R/DL / BD-RE/DL /

DVD -R / DVD -RW /

DVD R / DVD RW / DVD R DL /

DVD-RAM

DVD R / DVD RW

DVD -R / DVD -RW /

DVD R / DVD RW / DVD R DL /

DVD -R / DVD -RW / DVD -R DL /

DVD R / DVD RW / DVD R DL /

HD - DVD / BD -R?

DVD -R / DVD -RW /

DVD R / DVD RW / DVD R DL /

DVD -R / DVD -RW /

DVD R / DVD RW /

DVD -R / DVD -RW /

DVD R / DVD RW / DVD R DL /

DVD -R / DVD -RW /

DVD R / DVD RW /

(formerly Drive Letter Access )

DVD -R / DVD -RW / DVD -R DL /

DVD R / DVD RW / DVD R DL /

DVD - RAM / BD-R/RE / BD-R/RE DL

DVD -R / DVD -RW / DVD -R DL /

DVD R / DVD RW / DVD R DL /

DVD - RAM / BD-R/RE / BD-R/RE DL

DVD -R / DVD -RW /

DVD R / DVD RW / DVD R DL /

DVD - RAM /

BD- R / BD -RE / BD-R/DL / BD-RE/DL /

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