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Brasero is an application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome Desktop.

Brasero Platforms

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Brasero Overview

Brasero is an application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome Desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly.

Features
- Supports multiple backends: cdrtools, growisofs and libburn(optional).
Note: compiling against libburn is not enough. You need to activate the backend through GSettings

Features / Data CD/DVD
- Supports edition of discs contents (remove/move/rename files inside directories)
- Can burn data CD/DVD on the fly
- Automatic filtering for unwanted files (hidden files, broken/recursive symlinks, files not conforming to joliet standard, ...)
- Supports multisession
- Supports joliet extension
- Can write the image to the hard drive
- Can check disc file integrity

Features / Audio CD
- Write CD-TEXT information (automatically found thanks to gstreamer)
- Supports the edition of CD-TEXT information
- Can burn audio CD on the fly
- Can use all audio files handled by Gstreamer local installation (ogg, flac, mp3, ...)
- Can search for audio files inside dropped folders
- Full edition of silences between tracks

Features / CD/DVD copy
- Can copy a CD/DVD to the hard drive
- Can copy CD and DVD on the fly
- Supports single-session data DVD
- Supports any kind of CD

Features / Others
- Erase CD/DVD
- Can save/load projects
- Can burn CD/DVD images and cue files
- Song, image and video previewer
- Device detection thanks to HAL
- File change notification (requires kernel > 2.6.13)
- A customisable GUI (when used with GDL)
- Supports Drag and Drop / Cut'n'Paste from nautilus (and others apps)
- Can use files on a network as long as the protocol is handled by gnome-vfs
- Can search for files thanks to beagle (search is based on keywords or on file type)
- Can display a playlist and its contents (note that playlists are automatically searched through beagle)
- All disc IO is done asynchronously to prevent the application from blocking

Brasero Features

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