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bionnaki

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Registered: 2006-09-05

Posts: 289

decent burner program

I use openbox and I'm looking for a decent and fairly-lightweight burner application. I've been using pyburn but it's been coastering my discs lately and im not sure why. I used to use K3b, but I'd rather not install anything KDE. Brasero seems to want to install everything gnome.

any suggestions?

jordi

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Registered: 2006-12-16

Posts: 103

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Re: decent burner program

Using bashburn here since graveman stopped working for me.

It a command line tool, but easy to use and works pretty good.

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gothmog.todi

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From: Austria

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 120

Re: decent burner program

Xfburn would be an option if you don't mind the thunar dependency.

Bestiapeluda

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-10-16

Posts: 181

Re: decent burner program

is there a XFburn for the stable version too ?

gothmog.todi

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From: Austria

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 120

Re: decent burner program

There is a PKGBUILD in AUR which depends on thunar instead of thunar-svn: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15502

But note that this still is a svn version as there is no stable release of xfburn.

vogt

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 389

Re: decent burner program

Using bashburn here since graveman stopped working for me.

It a command line tool, but easy to use and works pretty good.

yeah, so all these tools (gui and cli) for burning aren't too much better than dealing with wodim (cdrecord and friends...): they all end up asking you almost the same questions anyways. Questions like which device, formats, speed...

hmm (thread hijack), bashburn fails on me (has a random reference to /dev/fd/62?), and it seems to be an inactive project (they don't answer to complaints to their mailing list), so here it is:

does anyone any other good command line tools that automate stuff (format conversions) like bashburn should. There's cdw...but it's bad too.

So is the solution just a couple of aliases to make dealing with wodim and format conversions (ex. to wav for audio cds)?

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: decent burner program

Tried mybashburn?

bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

Posts: 1,160

Re: decent burner program

I still use graveman and it's minimal at it's best.  It quit working right for me awhile ago but this older post helped alot: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=36850&p=1

Last edited by bgc1954 (2008-03-13 12:37:48)

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ScriptDevil

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From: In Front of My PC

Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 253

Re: decent burner program

sounds mad... but cdrecord rules the world! if only you learn to use it!

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vogt

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 389

Re: decent burner program

Tried mybashburn?

That one fails too.

ScriptDevil: Cdrecord isn't too bad: frondtends to it make some things easier, others hardsr: both take about the same amount of time I think.

Its just that it takes a bit of time to write a script to convert stuff..... or is that included in it one of cdrecord's hundreds of options.

dabski

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Registered: 2008-02-07

Posts: 101

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Re: decent burner program

I'm in the same boat as you, except that I'm using XFCE. I wanted something that didn't have all the bloat and after going through the majority of burning applications for Linux I settled on growisofs.

growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=/image.iso -dvd-compat -speed=4

cubekid

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Registered: 2008-04-22

Posts: 34

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Re: decent burner program

on the topic of cdrecord, pyburn is supposed to be a pretty nice frontend, at least for normal things.

http://www.zeroflux.org/projects

plus, it was written by judd vinet, so it fits perfectly in with arch

japetto

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From: Chicago, IL US

Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 183

Re: decent burner program

man mkisofs, man growisofs, and man cdrecord. 

Many (if not most/all) CD/DVD burning applications are just front-ends, so why not just learn them?  I got tired of trying out different apps and installing deps for something I could do easily in the terminal.

hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: decent burner program

This is based on pyburn, but you could give it a try:
Recorder - A simple GTK+ disc burner

Last edited by hokasch (2008-04-24 11:23:37)

mauud777

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Registered: 2008-03-12

Posts: 17

Re: decent burner program

you can try gnomebaker stable fast lightweight