3 Dec
2003
3 Dec
'03
5:34 p.m.
Thanks very much for your assessment Tim.
Its too bad that it still tries to use all those command line tools as so many of them are buggy, out-of-date and/or unsupported. It also means you have to chase down dozens of add-on files if you want to burn anything. Now that I know this I'm far less tempted to get a new burner and give it a try.
Hopefully they have done a good job on improving the GUI.
Thanks for your insight.
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On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 01:09, Tim Lavoie wrote:
> >>>>> "John" == John Lange john.lange@bighostbox.com writes:
>
> John> At a recent MUUG meeting someone was asking about burning
> John> VCDs (Video CDs). I believe the consensus at the meeting was
> John> that burning under Linux was comprised of a hodge-podge of
> John> various command line tools for converting video formats and
> John> burning making it quite difficult at best.
>
> John> I recently stumbled on the following software:
>
> John> http://www.k3b.org/
>
> John> which seems to bring everything under one roof and claims to
> John> do CD, VCD, and DVD burning all in one application (it does
> John> not appear to be just a GUI front end to command line
> John> tools).
>
> John> However, I do not currently have a burner to test it with so
> John> I was hoping someone from the group could give it a whirl
> John> and report back on success?
>
> Hey John,
>
> I just have a regular CD burner, so I grabbed a few commercials in
> MPEG format, and tried out the VCD creation. I'm completely winging
> it, having just bought the DVD player a couple days ago, but the
> process seems to work OK. It helps to have some CD-RWs around to
> experiment, so you can just do a quick blank and try something else.
>
> The K3B program does call others as well, such as cdrecord and cdrdao,
> and it expects (or at least hopes) to be able to run some of them as
> SUID root. It does handle the permissions setup for you though, which
> would be handy for the Linux newbies.
>
> The interface is very pretty, but seems functional enough. Probably
> typical for KDE, I'm not sure.
>
> Debian (testing) has packages for K3D and those programs it depends
> on, so installation was trivial as usual. What else? I dunno, I'll
> probably use it again.
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>
>
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