[H-GEN] CD Burner software

[Sandra Milne]

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Christopher Biggs wrote:

>>Im running RED HAT 8 on a Pentium 200.....
>                             ^^^^^^^^^^^
> In which case you will want to eschew glitzy cpu-hogging frontends in
> favour of devoting as much cpu power as you have to feeding data to
> the drive, especially if you expect to burn at high-speeds (say 8x or
> above).

Nice spotting there. I was going to recommend K3B which is the burning 
software I use in KDE. It looks and behaves a lot like Nero, which means 
that when I'm not here others can use my computer to burn CDs. The 
difference is that I have a Duron 1.2, a 40x LiteOn burner (which btw 
has never actually burnt higher than 32x - a common complaint with 
LiteOn drives), and a nice ATA133 Seagate hard drive with 8 meg cache.

I've never learned to use cdrecord. I've used another similar program (I 
forget what it's called right now) to burn vcds from the command line 
(prior to discovering K3B). VCD-Tools is totally awesome and I wish I 
had known about it sooner. Now all I need is something that will 
re-encode AVI to MPEG and I'll be one step closer to ditching this OS. 
It's frustrating to reboot just to encode something, when if I had it in 
MPEG format already I could just make the image and burn it.

Sandra.
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