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[jez]

Hi there,

I would consider myself a fairly advanced Linux user (well on the server at least).

I have been using it on the desktop for a good while now but i am never sure what applications are worth checking out (since there are so many).

What i want to do is burn a DVD with my nice new dvd burner.
Ubuntu recognised it and loads the appropriate modules so all i need is some software.

Here is the quesion;- Every link from google'ing "DVD burning on Linux" describes a command line process.

Usually i love the command line, but in trying to get to grips with Linux on the Desktop I want to only use GUI tools. That way i can start encouraging my non-linux friends to switch.


Can anyone reccomend a GUI app to use? (I dont care if i have to install a load of backend tools, I just want to be able to create the DVD from within X).

Thanks

Jez

 

[Chacalinc]

Well.. I used to know that "Nautilus" can create CD/DVDs...

From menu choose "Go" -> "CD/DVD Creator", the file manager will shoy an addresss "burn:///", copy the files to that location, then choose "File" -> "Write to CD/DVD".

Cheers.

Chacal, Inc.

 

[jez]

Wow, is it really that easy?
Or is that just putting data on the disk?

I should clarify that i want to make DVDs to play on a DVD player (i.e. films).


thanks though.

 

[Chacalinc]

well command line:


dvdbackup -F -i/dev/dvd -o/mnt/vault

and may be Nero?

http://www.nero.com/eng/nerolinux-prog.html

Chacal, Inc.

 

[franklin97355]

Some of these look promising.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=burn+dvd+with+linux

 

[jez]

Thanks for the responses, I will certainly check out nero and maybe Xcdroast.

Having said that though i doubt i will get through it without doing some command line stuff....


Thanks again,

Jez

 

[stefanwagner]

I'm not sure about DVDs, but k3b - a KDE-application is a GUI-program to burn - I guess CDs and DVDs.

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[Kozusnik]

The newer versions of K3B can burn DVDs also. That's what I use.

Mark

 

[flugh]

ME TOO! k3b is what I use (just used it to burn a kubuntu live dvd in fact) on my ubuntu system.

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JBR

 

[jez]

Im using ubuntu, if i switch to KDE does it become Kunbuntu or are there any other differences?

Jez

 

[Kozusnik]

I'm not sure I understand the question. Forgive me if you already know this...

KDE is the entire desktop environment.
K3B is an application for burning CDs and DVDs.

You don't have to have KDE to use K3B.

Mark

 

[flugh]

Ubuntu specific stuff here. You can install 'kubuntu-desktop' (don't know if it's in universe or whatever). kubuntu is ubuntu but using kde as default desktop with more attention given to polishing the default kde interface (themes and stuff). Pretty nice on the live DVD. Didn't come out very pretty when I did an 'apt-get install kubuntu-desktop' in my opinion. But I've been a gnome'r for years now.

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JBR

 

[Kozusnik]

Interesting. I just started the Live DVD download from their site. Geez, it's slow.

Any faster mirrors?

Thanks --- Mark

 

[jez]

RE: Kozusnik - yep it is a kinda Ubuntu specific question.

Ubuntu comes with Gnome only as the desktop.
I have heard talk of Kbuntu, which is with KDE (instead not aswell).
Since this is almost a fork in the distro development (the original being Gnome only) I was wondering if it was just the different desktop that made kbuntu different.... so that i could potentially apt-get KDE and then i could use K3B....

or can i use K3B from Gnome?

(I have switched between KDE and Gnome alot over the years, they both have their advantages/disadvantages so i dont mind which i use... I am using Gnome at the moment because it was the only desktop environment that comes with Ubuntu).


ALSO re: faster mirrors, I downloaded the full distro for CD install from a european mirror (germany) and it was pretty fast, (I am in UK).