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optical disc authoring software Optical disc authoring, including DVD and Blu-ray Disc authoring, is the process of assembling source material—video, audio or other data—into the proper logical volume format to then be recorded ("burned") onto an optical disc (ty ...

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Multi-platform

* cdrtools, a comprehensive

command line A command-line interpreter or command-line processor uses a command-line interface (CLI) to receive commands from a user in the form of lines of text. This provides a means of setting parameters for the environment, invoking executables and pro ...

-based set of tools for creating and burning

CDs The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in Octo ...

DVD The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kind ...

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Blu-ray The Blu-ray Disc (BD), often known simply as Blu-ray, is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released on June 20, 2006 worldwide. It is designed to supersede the DVD format, and capable of sto ...

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cdrkit cdrkit is a collection of computer programs for CD and DVD authoring that work on Unix-like systems. cdrkit is released under the GNU General Public License version 2. Fedora (operating system), Fedora, Gentoo Linux, Mandriva Linux, and Ubuntu ( ...

, a fork of cdrtools by the

Debian Debian (), also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software, developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. The first version of D ...

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cdrdao cdrdao (''“CD recorder disc-at-once”'') is a free utility software product for authoring and ripping of CD-ROMs. The program is released under the GPL. Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once mode based on a textual description ...

, open source software for authoring and ripping of CDs in

Disk-At-Once In optical disc authoring, there are multiple modes for recording, including Disc-At-Once, Track-At-Once, and Session-At-Once. CD Disc-At-Once Disc-At-Once (DAO) for CD-R media is a mode that masters the disc contents in one pass, rather than a ...

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DVDStyler DVDStyler is a DVD authoring tool. It allows menu creation, buttons, and DVD previews. It is free software under the GNU GPL. Some users have criticized the inclusion of adware in the installer (and the obfuscation of the "opt-out" option) in versi ...

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GUI The GUI ( "UI" by itself is still usually pronounced . or ), graphical user interface, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and audio indicator such as primary notation, inste ...

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libburnia Libburnia is a project that develops a collection of libraries and command-line tools for burning CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray media. Project overview Libburnia is the name of a project to develop various pieces of disk recording software. * libisofs ...

, a collection of command line-based tools and libraries for burning discs

Linux and Unix

Brasero Brasero may refer to: * Brasero (heater), a heater or an oven * Brasero (software), CD/DVD-burning software for Linux See also * Bracero program {{disambig