From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 3 17:36:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B9B616A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:36:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpauth09.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth09.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DFCA43D1D for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:36:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from [206.255.31.21] (helo=[192.168.63.10]) by smtpauth09.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.34) id 1CwkuC-0005qQ-Ho for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:36:36 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:36:55 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200502031136.55164.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bc016591665411934466605901c931cb72350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 206.255.31.21 Subject: Fwd: Re: dvd-burning/alternative to k3b? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:36:37 -0000 oops. I forgot to send this back to the list. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: dvd-burning/alternative to k3b? Date: Thursday 03 February 2005 09:56 am From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: brianjohn@fusemail.com On Thursday 03 February 2005 09:02 am, Brian John wrote: > Hello, > I was using k3b for burning but now that I am using fluxbox it looks > like I can't use it anymore. Is there a close alternative? What is > everyone using for cd and dvd burning? > > Thanks > > /Brian I use cdrecord (for CD's) and growisofs for DVD's. They are both command line applications; but if you always use the same media and options you could write a simple script that prompts for the variable information. For example, when burning DVD's, I always use DVD-R's and the command: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0c -r -l [path_to_data_to_burn] A simple script would prompt for the directory I want to burn and would build and execute the proper command. If you wanted to get fancy, the script could have a configuration file for static info and would prompt for: 1. burning cd's vs dvd's (cdrecord vs growisofs) 2. single burn session vs RW (and initial burn vs subsequent burn) 3. burn existing iso image vs directory vs mkisofs, then burn iso image Best of luck, Andrew Gould -------------------------------------------------------