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Brasero (software)
Encyclopedia
Brasero is a free
disc
-burning
program for Unix-like
systems
, which serves as a graphical front-end
(using GTK+
) to cdrtools
, growisofs
, and (optionally) libburn.
Brasero is the default CD/DVD application in the GNOME
desktop.
Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
, Brasero is free software
.
Early releases of the application were well received. In a review in April 2007 published in Free Software Magazine
Robin Monks concluded:
After further development and the inclusion of Brasero 0.7.1 in Ubuntu
8.04 Hardy Heron in April 2008 the application received further press reviews. In May 2008 Ryan Paul of Ars Technica
said:
Brasero was later integrated into GNOME and the version numbers were aligned with GNOME desktop version numbering. Ars Technica reviewed Brasero 2.26, then the newest version, in March 2009, saying:
The application allows automatic filtering for unwanted files, including hidden files, broken and recursive
symlinks
and files not conforming to the Joliet CD standard
. Brasero supports multisessions, the Joliet extension and can create an image
of the user's hard drive.
information automatically found, using GStreamer
. It also supports the editing of CD-TEXT information and can burn audio CDs on the fly. It can use all audio file formats handled by GStreamer local installation, including Ogg
, FLAC and MP3
. Brasero can also search for audio files that are inside dropped folders
.
format and can copy DVDs and CDs on the fly. It supports single-session data DVDs and any type of CD.
No information is available about its behaviour with dual layer discs, nor with respect to copy-protected disks.
It includes a song, image and video previewer and full device detection through the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer)
. When operating on a Linux kernel
newer than 2.6.13 it provides file change notification
.
When used with GDL, Brasero has a customizable user interface
.
The application supports drag and drop as well as cut and paste
from the Nautilus (GNOME file manager)
and also other applications. It can use files from a network when the protocol is handled via gnome-vfs. It can search for files using Beagle
, allowing a search that is based on keywords or on file type. Brasero can also display a playlist
and its contents. Playlists are automatically searched using Beagle.
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
disc
Optical disc
In computing and optical disc recording technologies, an optical disc is a flat, usually circular disc which encodes binary data in the form of pits and lands on a special material on one of its flat surfaces...
-burning
Optical disc authoring
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 onto an optical disc .-Process:To burn an optical disc, one usually first creates an...
program for Unix-like
Unix-like
A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification....
systems
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
, which serves as a graphical front-end
Front-end and back-end
Front end and back end are generalized terms that refer to the initial and the end stages of a process. The front end is responsible for collecting input in various forms from the user and processing it to conform to a specification the back end can use...
(using GTK+
GTK+
GTK+ is a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, allowing both free and proprietary software to use it. It is one of the most popular toolkits for the X Window System, along with Qt.The name GTK+ originates from GTK;...
) to cdrtools
Cdrtools
cdrtools is a collection of independent projects of free software/open source computer programs, created by Jörg Schilling and others under the GNU General Public License ....
, growisofs
Dvd+rw-tools
dvd+rw-tools is a collection of open source computer programs that are popular DVD burning tools for Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and Mac OS X. dvd+rw-tools does not burn CDs....
, and (optionally) libburn.
Brasero is the default CD/DVD application in the GNOME
GNOME
GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...
desktop.
Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....
, Brasero is free software
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
.
History
Brasero was developed by Philippe Rouquier & Luis Medinas. The project was originally named Bonfire, but was renamed after the Spanish word brasero for a small heater used to provide warmth for people sitting at a table.Early releases of the application were well received. In a review in April 2007 published in Free Software Magazine
Free Software Magazine
Free Software Magazine is a website which produces a mostly free-content e-zine about free software....
Robin Monks concluded:
After further development and the inclusion of Brasero 0.7.1 in Ubuntu
Ubuntu (operating system)
Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu...
8.04 Hardy Heron in April 2008 the application received further press reviews. In May 2008 Ryan Paul of Ars Technica
Ars Technica
Ars Technica is a technology news and information website created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998. It publishes news, reviews and guides on issues such as computer hardware and software, science, technology policy, and video games. Ars Technica is known for its features, long articles that go...
said:
Brasero was later integrated into GNOME and the version numbers were aligned with GNOME desktop version numbering. Ars Technica reviewed Brasero 2.26, then the newest version, in March 2009, saying:
Data
Brasero supports both CD and DVD formats. It allows for editing of the disc contents and can remove, move and rename files that are located inside folders. It can also burn data CD/DVDs on the fly.The application allows automatic filtering for unwanted files, including hidden files, broken and recursive
Recursive
Recursive may refer to:*Recursion, the technique of functions calling themselves*Recursive function, a total computable function*Recursive language, a language which is decidable...
symlinks
Symbolic link
In computing, a symbolic link is a special type of file that contains a reference to another file or directory in the form of an absolute or relative path and that affects pathname resolution. Symbolic links were already present by 1978 in mini-computer operating systems from DEC and Data...
and files not conforming to the Joliet CD standard
Joliet (file system)
Joliet is the name of an extension to the ISO 9660 file system. It has been specified and endorsed by Microsoft and has been supported by all versions of its Windows OS since Windows 95 and Windows NT...
. Brasero supports multisessions, the Joliet extension and can create an image
Disk image
A disk image is a single file or storage device containing the complete contents and structure representing a data storage medium or device, such as a hard drive, tape drive, floppy disk, CD/DVD/BD, or USB flash drive, although an image of an optical disc may be referred to as an optical disc image...
of the user's hard drive.
Audio
When creating audio CDs Brasero writes CD-TEXTCD-Text
CD-Text is an extension of the Red Book Compact Disc specifications standard for audio CDs. It allows for storage of additional information on a standards-compliant audio CD...
information automatically found, using GStreamer
GStreamer
GStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject.GStreamer allows a programmer to create a variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing...
. It also supports the editing of CD-TEXT information and can burn audio CDs on the fly. It can use all audio file formats handled by GStreamer local installation, including Ogg
Ogg
Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The creators of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.The Ogg container format can multiplex...
, FLAC and MP3
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
. Brasero can also search for audio files that are inside dropped folders
Directory (file systems)
In computing, a folder, directory, catalog, or drawer, is a virtual container originally derived from an earlier Object-oriented programming concept by the same name within a digital file system, in which groups of computer files and other folders can be kept and organized.A typical file system may...
.
Copying
Brasero is capable of copying a CD/DVD to the user's hard drive in isoISO image
An ISO image is an archive file of an optical disc, composed of the data contents of every written sector of an optical disc, including the optical disc file system...
format and can copy DVDs and CDs on the fly. It supports single-session data DVDs and any type of CD.
No information is available about its behaviour with dual layer discs, nor with respect to copy-protected disks.
Other features
Brasero can also erase CD/DVDs, save and load ongoing projects and can burn CD and DVD images and cue files.It includes a song, image and video previewer and full device detection through the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer)
HAL (software)
HAL was a software project providing a hardware abstraction layer for Unix-like computer systems.HAL is now deprecated on GNU/Linux systems, with functionality being merged into udev as of 2008–2010...
. When operating on a Linux kernel
Linux kernel
The Linux kernel is an operating system kernel used by the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems. It is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software....
newer than 2.6.13 it provides file change notification
Inotify
inotify is a Linux kernel subsystem that acts to extend filesystems to notice changes to the filesystem, and report those changes to applications. It replaces an earlier facility, dnotify, which had similar goals....
.
When used with GDL, Brasero has a customizable user interface
Graphical user interface
In computing, a graphical user interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and...
.
The application supports drag and drop as well as cut and paste
Cut and paste
In human-computer interaction, cut and paste and copy and paste offer user-interface interaction techniques for transferring text, data, files or objects from a source to a destination. Most ubiquitously, users require the ability to cut and paste sections of plain text...
from the Nautilus (GNOME file manager)
Nautilus (file manager)
Nautilus is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. The name is a play on words, evoking the shell of a nautilus to represent an operating system shell. Nautilus replaced Midnight Commander in GNOME 1.4 and was the default from version 2.0 onwards....
and also other applications. It can use files from a network when the protocol is handled via gnome-vfs. It can search for files using Beagle
Beagle (software)
Beagle is a search system for Linux and other such modern Unix-like systems, enabling the user to search documents, chat logs, email and contact lists in a similar way to Spotlight in Mac OS X, and Windows Search or Google Desktop under Linux or Microsoft Windows...
, allowing a search that is based on keywords or on file type. Brasero can also display a playlist
Playlist
In its most general form, a playlist is simply a list of songs. They can be played in sequential or shuffled order. The term has several specialized meanings in the realms of radio broadcasting and personal computers.-In radio:...
and its contents. Playlists are automatically searched using Beagle.