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Free DVD Recording Tool For Linux?
jobsagoodun writes "
cdrecord-ProDVD is OK for burning DVDs but (i) it grumbles pointlessly about device names and (ii) it has a weird binary-only license that expires every six months or so. There are some Free forks off cdrtools - dvd+rw/+r/-r ,dvdrtools and this patch
- do any of them make a good replacement?"
To burn a DVD I just do:
growisofs -Z /dev/burner -R -J /path/to/data
A very good option for doing all this very easily is to get K3b which is part of the KDE distribution.
For authoring DVDs I recently discovered Qdvdauthor, and it works like a charm!, I was able to create my own DVDs with menus with custom backgrounds, sound, etc.
Also check my homepage for help about video conversions: http ://dvdripping-guid.berlios.de
DVD Ripping, Divx, VCD, SVCD under Linux
k3b works great for burning DVDs.
K3B, dvdbackup, and dvdshrink (ran under wine, 3.0b5) work awesome.
Hi there
I was thinking the same... here is the official web site link
k3b.org
Not everyone uses KDE, so why would everyone know about it? Sure you can run it under other window managers, but most KDE users have never heard of lots of Gnome utils, and many Fluxbox users don't use those type of GUI utils anyway.
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I could be mistaken, but I thought there was a counterpart to cdrecord called dvdrecord.
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Windows XP doesn't have native DVD burning abilities.
Longhorn is supposed to, but with all the things that MS is cutting, it may not.
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Actually, I have never heard of it.
Never used KDE either.
I use it like this:
It gives a warning about accessing the drive via
If all linux desktop user had to Ask Slashdot for this kind of question...
Freshmeat.net exists and its platform and even license independent. If you visit slashdot enough to use the ask slashdot feature, it is weird that you don't know the existance of freshmeat.net or at least use it if you already know it.
I just use growisofs! It comes with the dvd+rw-tools and it works like a charm. It only requires mkisofs.
/dev/dvd -r -J my_directory
/dev/dvd -dvd-video my_dvd
So to burn a data DVD:
growisofs -Z
and to burn a video DVD:
growisofs -Z
I don't know the story behind cdrecord-prodvd and all that license cruft (was Mr. Joerg "you must use SCSI" Schilling involved with that nonsense?)
The less you have to deal with Schilling the better.
in case you haven't noticed, k3b burns DVDs using those very programs he mentioned in the summary.
it it just a front-end for programs like mkisofs and cdrecord.
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But for burning data, or formatting DVDs, or even copying or burning a DVD iso is very good.
Even love the kde trick of putting a blank dvd and offering me to launch (even by default) k3b to burn something there.
Is a a good DVD-Authoring system. Its easy enough to burn DVD's on linux and has been for some time K3b uses the command line tools to do its work seamlessly.
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But i'd like it to be easier to dump footage via my DV Camcorder over firewire and dump it on a DVD with a nice little menu. Just by clicking a couple of buttons. Alas I havent come across anything like this yet. Which is why im still hankering after a powerbook.
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I did not think there could be any desktop user that has not heard of k3b...
I did not think there could be any desktop user that doesn't understand k3b is a GUI FRONTEND to several command line tools, one of them being cdrecord-ProDVD for writing DVDs. Without these backends, your k3b will DO NOTHING. Another option for writing DVDs are the dvd+rw-tools, which also work for DVD-R now. THAT is what the question is about, not your GUI-of-the-day.
Perhaps for the next Ask Slashdot we could have a question about free web browsers? Or maybe a free Linux C compiler?
Or maybe have a question about what's the difference about a GUI frontend and an actual work-performing backend?The other thing to do is to dump some form of Windows (from 95 up to XP) to the virtualization program and install one of the more contemporary DVD recorders on it (Nero works well, but shop around.) QEMU works fast enough that DVD burning can be a reality under this setup, but you'll need to set up something like Samba on the Linux side or NFS under Windows in order to bridge the systems for DVD authoring using your Linux material.
Hope this helps -- if at all curious, please drop by #linux on EFnet and ask for more information.
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It is his problem he doesn't use the internet, and to defend myself, it's true, many users of other window managers have not heard of programs designed for different WMs, however he is dumb for not using Google or freshmeat. I was simply pointing out that he was't stupid. However, the real question is why the Slashdot newsposters thought it was newsworthy.
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Probably it's not a joke. I'm aware of K3B, and I've even used it. I agree: it's an excellent application. It works well, and it's *extremely* easy to use. There's just one problem: it depends on Qt.
I don't use KDE, and I try to avoid installing its libraries if I can. This is very hard to do sometimes, because some very good programs, like K3B, depend on those libraries. However, I like to run a lean system, so I try to steer clear of KDE-ized apps.
I would like to know if there is any good linux soft that REALLY write the cd-text.
I tryed a lot (including k3b and others), and none worked.
Thanks
Does anyone know of any Linux DVD burning software to burn global images? (Sonic RecordNow .gi)
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Freshmeat.net exists and its platform and even license independent.
First, note that "k3b" is one of the least-informative program names imaginable. It provides ZERO descriptive data (aside from possibly the fact that it uses KDE). Nobody can be expected to guess that she wants "k3b" to make DVDs. So what happens if you search for a "DVD burner" on freshmeat.net?
Searching for "DVD burner" gives 0 hits. "DVD burn" gives 8 hits, but k3b isn't one of them. "cd burn" gives 7 hits, again without mentioning k3b.
Searching for "DVD" by itself produces 128 results, but again, k3b isn't in there. So apparently a freshmeat search is useless, unless you already knew the cryptic 3-character app name.
A google-search (such as for "linux dvd burn") would've faster and more fruitful. Rather sad that freshmeat isn't a good place to search for Free software...
I become more impressed with kde each time I use it, which is daily. The level of integration must surely be the equal of its closed-source rivals.
BTW I do most of my work on SuSE 9.1, but it (kde) seems much the same on the other machines, Xandros, FC2 and even FreeBSD (although I have not yet tried DVD writing on the latter).
I get the impression that each of kde and gnome is in itself a much bigger achievement than the kernel, and certainly they are important because new users or prospective users see the GUI first. They don't care about the window manager, or the X implementation, or even the kernel. But Linux distros are clearly doing something right.
BTW my DVD writer is multi-mode (+/-R and RW, and RAM) and the type of blank disc was correctly identified without any messing about by me, much to my surprise, as I have seen the "other" OS have problems.
I don't know whether there is any free DVD recording software for Linux, but I am sure that "DVD Jon" will gladly write it in no time, provided that doing so would violate copyright, DMCA and/or patent law.
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let's ask another question that might be more interesting to the majority who seem to already be using K3B.
I heard that one of the big changes in the 2.6 kernel was that the SCSI emmulation was dropped for optical burning and that this should improve performance.
Well sure enough, my CD writing speeds went nuts. I had never burnt a CD at 20X using that PC which, granted was only a K62 500, but Nero had never gotten to speeds that high without using up the buffer in a few seconds. But with the 2.6 kernel I was getting 20X sustained without even touching the buffer. I was truly impressed.
BUT!
Unfortunately, the same thing didn't hold true for DVD. My DVD burner, which is the same machine, an 8X+/-RW CyQue AKA MET, that was giving me the insane CD writing speeds was still quite slow with DVDs.
This was disappointing because using the bundled Nero that had come with the burner I could get 4X easily even writing over the network and 8X was technically doable although it spent more time refilling the cache than writing. After seeing the CD write speed so high, I really hoped that the 2.6 kernel would give me equally fast DVD write speeds. Instead, my DVD write speeds are less than one speed which is quite slow.
However, I'm not saying Nero on Windows is better even though it is faster. I still use 2.6 kernel and K3B to write DVDs because Linux doesn't choke on filenames like Windows does and cheap media that fails in Nero still at least writes in K3B.
On this last note, I want to clarify that I've used many different media and all of them seem to give the same result. So, this isn't a cheap media related issue.
There's a better ask slashdot topic.
For any kind of Linux-related media recording whatsoever, you should definitely check out dyne:bolic, i.e. a free multimedia studio in a GNU/Linux live CD:
"dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software.
"dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux distribution simply running from a CD, without the need to install anything, able to recognize most of your devices and periferals: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb devices and more.
"It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning it into a full media station: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console--and if you have more than one, you can easily do clusters."
It is unquestionably invaluable to explore if you are not sure which software do you need to install and use on your own GNU/Linux system (e.g. Debian or Gentoo). I hope this helps.
Sincerely,
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...with tkDVD and xcdroast. Had these both on my system for quite some time. Most likely require dvd+rwtools and growisofs.
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Not heard of K3b, & I don't use KDE & didn't want to install it that much being a happy Gnome. I've had a look now, thanks for pointing it out. It does appear to use one of the 'ProDVD' alternative tools I mentioned in my post though - rather than being a self-contained dvd burning tool in and of itself.
Kernel 2.6.8 has effectively killed non root users from burning CDs and DVDs.
I would really like to see packet-writing working properly on linux, so I can use my CD-Rs and CD-RW as a read-write medium like a floppy (an ever shrinking floppy in the CD-R case, but that's okay). similarly for DVDs.
UDF and packet writing would rock!
That is one of the things thats really sad about the kde project. The authors of every single app in the kde project artificially reduce their userbase this way.
Linux is not Windows
He wasn't just asking for people to spout the names of various free recording tools. He was specifically asking if any make a good replacement for cdrecord-ProDVD. Which, I think, is a perfectly good Ask Slashdot question.
Anyway, it appears that SuSE and Mandrake have patched versions of cdrtools which are able to write to DVD without restriction. I don't have personal experience with this tool, so perhaps someone else who regularly runs Linux can verify.
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Well i always do my burning on an alphaserver, on which cdrecord-prodvd won't run.. Not because it couldn't compile, cdrecord compiles perfectly on it, but simply because the author doesnt see fit to produce a binary for my platform.
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I use KDE on Linux and Solaris and I NEVER heard of this tool. Pretty cool front end. But it still relies on these programs in question....
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Recently I installed Suse 9.1 and discovered that "cdrecord -scanbus" no longer did the job it used to do. Took me a while to figure out I could use a "dev/hdx".
... I still don't get it.
As I understand it, the author of cdrecord is livid over this issue. I've read a bit on mailing lists, but I still don't understand what the big deal is either way. Although somewhere I heard a comment that it may be a way for the author to make money off his DVD burning program
Can anyone summarize what this fight is all about?
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KDE is probably the most "well-known" application which uses Qt, and so they're associated together in many people's minds, but Qt doesn't depend on one inch of KDE.
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Why not upgrade you computer?
Anyway, sooner o later, you will do that. But seems that you need more computer power, NOW!
I don't know, have you figured out how you are supposed to add new software?
And where can I find a list of available software to install?
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Well, I don't know if this is the fault of dvdrtools/dvdrecord or just the fact that I bought generic, cheap disks . . . but 1/3 disks I burn are unreadable immediately thereafter (ie- after the burn is finished, mount the disk and md5sum the files). And some 6 months later I've found that almost every disk I ever burned won't mount right . . .
:)
.44 worth of useless dvdness . . .
I can use readcd to get everything back with errors (~4000-5000 errors per disk), but it's really quite annoying.
So either it's my crappy disks (bought for about 44 cents a pop online in bulk) or it's dvdrecord. I've no idea which, though I'm leaning towards blaming the dvds (in which case, just be aware that cheap dvds aren't worth it!
Just my
I guess the reason for no mention of k3b on freshmeat is more kde's braindamaged way of packaging applications
Wrong. Freshmeat has a page for k3b, independent of any larger "kde-tools" package. But you can't find it by searching by reasonable keywords like "DVD burn"- you have to already know that k3b is what you want to search for.
The problem's not the completeness of freshmeat, but the lack of a good way to browse/search.
You should already have DMA, since it's on by default in scsi emulation (I used to turn scsi emulation on for just that purpose). Still, you're better off w/o scsi emulation, it can do weird things with the device nodes. Check your lilo.conf or grub.conf for the line 'hdc=ide-scsi' and remove it.
/usr/local where k3b will find it (you'll have to go in and tell k3b to use the new binaries). I couldn't set my speeds correctly until I upgraded, and was left choosing between 8x (not happening on my 4x media) or 1x. Once I upgrade everthing just worked.
If you want better speed, upgrade to the latest DVD+/-rw-tools. There's a ton of recently fixed speed bugs with newer drives. Install from source is easy. just make && make install as root and it'll copy itself in
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Perhaps Qt doesn't depend on KDE, but gods know K3B needs all the KDE crap.
Are there any *significant* Qt applications that don't require KDE's idiotic ways of doing things? At least there are a few people using GTK that don't require you to install all the Gnome idiocies just to display a window.
K3b works great for me when writing CD-R's, but I'm finding that DVD's of all sorts will write but then fail the md5sum verify that k3b performs. I'm trying to figure out if it's a hardware issue, a kernel issue, or related to autofs and scsi emulation. Has anyone else had experience with this?
A UDF filesystem split across multiple sessions.
And don't forget you need tons of space in your Local Settings/Temp folder (at least as much as you want to copy in an increment).
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Scribus, Audacity and lots more. Do a bit of research.
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Does Linux have a text editor?
True story -- I was installing SuSE personal the other day, just to see what you got on a 1cd distribution these days.
I went through my usual application selection routine, disabling the stuff that I can't stand (e.g. vim, joe).
By the time I was finished, the only console based text editor installed on the system was 'ed'.
WHAT? No emacs? Not even an emacs-compatible editor? (I used to be a big fan of jove -- like emacs, only loaded _instantly_, even on my old 386).
Was most disappointed. Hooked straight up to their FTP site to download the missing rpms.
OK, I'm serious here. I've been attempting to use ProDVD under Windows for the last 3 months, but Schilling doesn't seem to be responding to requests for new licenses (there isn't a public one for Windows like there is for Linux), so I've abandoned that idea. I'm currently using Nero, but I would much rather have a _free_ _command line_ tool that I can do this with, because then I can integrate it with DVDStyler and have author & burn in a single step. I can burn CDs just fine with cdrdao, but I haven't found anything equivalent for DVDs. Any suggestions?
install the RPMS for your distro, and after that its a breeze to burn/read your DVD stuff from the commandline:
http://crashrecovery.org/oss-dvd/HOWTO-ossdvd.html
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Makes a great tool, but screws it up in his desire for control. Schilly cdrecord is no longer Open Source in its most recent versions due to a license change. GIYF.
Use the cdrecord that comes in your distro. Red Hat, Suse, and most others now come with patched versions of older cdrecord that handle DVDs fine.
That's unless SuSE did something really insane with their fork of cdrecord.
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http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=l xdvdrip
This above link is where you can find the software.
This link below is how you can use it to perfection. Lxdvdrip is quite literally configurable to a 1 click dvd backup software. You can set it up to where all you do is click an icon and you're done as it does everything else for you (if configured right and with a dvd r/w and a seperate dvd rom to read from unless you want to switch dvd's in the middle of the process).
http://pcpitstop.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic= 59445&hl=lxdvdrip
Read this thread here and you'll find out how to configure it to work for you as well as delete all the temp files when done.
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Yet oddly, for, searching for some wild term like, oh "DVD burning" gives..K3b, right as the first result. Who'd have thought using sensible search terms might give sensible results? Not you, apparently.
Of course, you need to install Cygwin and a bunch of GNU tools to general ISOs on the fly, which is mildly annoying, but if all you're doing is dumping the ISOs you grab from Fasttrack or the the MSDN Parter downloads site, it's really handy.
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That should be "generate", not "general".
While I'm at it, I hope that someone gets around to making a better command-line tool to generate those ISOs sometime. The batch files I'm using to do it are really, really ugly.
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Warder had put together a nice script for DVD backing up to 4.7G Discs found here.
Does the same thing as DVD Shrinks as per winblows.
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Excellent point! I'd stick with something more logical like "Roxio" if I were you.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
It works fine in Mandrake.
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I did not think there could be any desktop user that doesn't understand k3b is a GUI FRONTEND to several command line tools, one of them being cdrecord-ProDVD for writing DVDs.
:)
Guess what? 99% of computer users are the type which you don't believe exist.
Sometimes the whole point of the GUI is that people don't have to know anything about the command line, or even that such tools exist.
on my BeOS i can use good software to do that
When I try to burn my dvd:s with movies from my DV camera under Windows with the program I bought, I get "Compilation Failed" as error message and no help how to solve it... The support from the company says: Buy again, it is solved in the new version... They just want my money, as always in the Windows world.
The topic is "Free DVD Recording Tool For Linux?" ;)
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Opera's webbrowser is another good example for a QT application.
Windows XP is free as in free sex with children. You can have it for free, but you can be sued for that.
KDE-libs and maybe KDE-base. But it doesn't need any of the other KDE "crap".
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"Roxio" is the company name, the products they offer on the Windows platform include Easy Media Creator, Easy DVD Copy, and Easy CD & DVD Creator.
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
My post was moderated as "-1, Flamebait" but I seriously admire this guy. I remember a recent discussion on Slashdot:
This is exactly how I feel. Moderating my post as "-1, Flamebait" was a serious mistake.
Sincerely,
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I use the dvd+rw-tools (the fy.chalmers.se URL you posted). My experience is very good, it works flawlessly. The only problem is if you need to burn something that mkisofs can't create (e.g. audio tracks, video DVD or I don't know what) on the second+ track. I personally find growisofs sufficient (I use my burner basically only for backups), but I can imagine there are people who want more.
At first I tried the closed source cdrecord-DVDplus, but somehow couldn't get it working satisfactorily.
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"Roxio" is the company name, the products they offer on the Windows platform include Easy Media Creator, Easy DVD Copy, and Easy CD & DVD Creator.
Which reminds me: no more Roxio burning software in the near future.
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Are there any *significant* Qt applications that don't require KDE's idiotic ways of doing things?
Scribus, Audacity and lots more.
Doesn't Audacity use wxWidgets instead of Qt?
Once you have the image file, you can burn it with just about anything - but "mkudffs" is just a bit too complex for a lot of users to deal with, even if you give them a simple script that takes everything in a directory and turn it into a UDF file system. They just want to drag and drop the same way they do in Nero.
Now were going to have to fight off old man Jack Valenti as well as Darl McBride and Bill Gatus of Borg. Way to go you insensitive clods. ;)
They also drag in a trainload of dependencies. I use both, load all the libraries and be damned with the overhead. That's what having a multi-GHz processor and gigabyte-range RAM is all about. Contrary to MS-Windows, KDE is getting noticeably slimmer and faster these days, and thanks to constant whining from (forex) Mandrake Cooker denizens, the apps are becoming more modular as well (with the notable exception of Kontact and friends).
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing