Comparison of disc authoring software
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This comparison of disc authoring software compares different optical disc authoring software.
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Please note that the list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common types in use (ie. not the now defunct HD DVD-R & UDO
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formats an application supports.
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General information
Basic general information about the application.| Application | Creator | Cost (USD United States dollar The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies.... ) |
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| Ashampoo Burning Studio Ashampoo Burning Studio Ashampoo Burning Studio is an optical disc authoring program for Microsoft Windows, developed by Ashampoo. It is one of the most-used alternatives to Nero Burning ROM on Windows, but not as popular as the latter.... |
Ashampoo Software | ||
| Alcohol 120% | Alcohol Soft | ||
| BashBurn BashBurn BashBurn is a GNU GPL licensed CD burning application for the Linux console. It does not perform the actual burning itself, but acts as a menu driven frontend for cdrtools, cdrdao, dvd+rw-tools and other applications.As of now, BashBurn supports:... |
Anders Linden | ||
| CDBurnerXP | Stefan Haglund, Fredrik Haglund | http://www.cdburnerxp.se/help/Intro/license | |
| 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 .... |
Joerg Schilling | ||
| Graveman | Sylvain Crest | ||
| ImgBurn ImgBurn ImgBurn is a freeware program that allows the recording of many types of CD/DVD images to recordable media . Starting with version 2.0.0.0, ImgBurn can also burn files and data directly to CD/DVD. It supports padding DVD-Video files so the layer break occurs on a proper cell boundary... |
LIGHTNING UK! | http://www.imgburn.com/#license | |
| InfraRecorder InfraRecorder InfraRecorder is an open source CD and DVD writing program for Microsoft Windows. First started by Christian Kindahl in the Google Summer of Code 2006, InfraRecorder uses the cdrtools software library to perform the actual burning.... |
Christian Kindahl | ||
| K3b K3b K3b is a CD and DVD authoring application by KDE for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as more advanced tasks such as burning eMoviX... |
Sebastian Trüg, Christian Kvasny | ||
| Nero Burning ROM Nero Burning ROM Nero Multimedia Suite is a popular software suite for Microsoft Windows by Nero AG . Version 10 of this product was released in April 2010.- Included products :The following applications are included in Nero 11 :Disc authoring... |
Ahead Software | ||
| PowerISO PowerISO PowerISO is an application used to create, open, mount / emulate, compress, encrypt, and otherwise manipulate CD / DVD image files. It is most commonly known for its proprietary DAA disc image format. Other supported formats include ISO, BIN, NRG, and CDI. PowerISO is able to modify all supported... |
PowerISO Computing, Inc. | ||
| UltraISO UltraISO UltraISO is an application for Microsoft Windows for creating, modifying and converting ISO image files used for optical disc authoring.Since the first release of UltraISO on 20 April 2002, its author EZB Systems has maintained and kept the product shareware.UltraISO is currently produced by EZB... |
EZB Systems | ||
| X-CD-Roast X-CD-Roast X-CD-Roast is a GTK+ front-end for cdrtools which provides a graphical user interface for CD authoring.X-CD-Roast runs on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems... |
T. Niederreiter | ||
| Application | Creator | Cost (USD United States dollar The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies.... ) |
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Operating system support
Please note that the list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common operating systemOperating 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...
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| Application | Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
BSD | Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... |
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| BashBurn BashBurn BashBurn is a GNU GPL licensed CD burning application for the Linux console. It does not perform the actual burning itself, but acts as a menu driven frontend for cdrtools, cdrdao, dvd+rw-tools and other applications.As of now, BashBurn supports:... |
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| 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 .... |
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| ImgBurn ImgBurn ImgBurn is a freeware program that allows the recording of many types of CD/DVD images to recordable media . Starting with version 2.0.0.0, ImgBurn can also burn files and data directly to CD/DVD. It supports padding DVD-Video files so the layer break occurs on a proper cell boundary... |
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| InfraRecorder InfraRecorder InfraRecorder is an open source CD and DVD writing program for Microsoft Windows. First started by Christian Kindahl in the Google Summer of Code 2006, InfraRecorder uses the cdrtools software library to perform the actual burning.... |
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| K3b K3b K3b is a CD and DVD authoring application by KDE for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as more advanced tasks such as burning eMoviX... |
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| Nero Burning ROM Nero Burning ROM Nero Multimedia Suite is a popular software suite for Microsoft Windows by Nero AG . Version 10 of this product was released in April 2010.- Included products :The following applications are included in Nero 11 :Disc authoring... |
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| PowerISO PowerISO PowerISO is an application used to create, open, mount / emulate, compress, encrypt, and otherwise manipulate CD / DVD image files. It is most commonly known for its proprietary DAA disc image format. Other supported formats include ISO, BIN, NRG, and CDI. PowerISO is able to modify all supported... |
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| UltraISO UltraISO UltraISO is an application for Microsoft Windows for creating, modifying and converting ISO image files used for optical disc authoring.Since the first release of UltraISO on 20 April 2002, its author EZB Systems has maintained and kept the product shareware.UltraISO is currently produced by EZB... |
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| X-CD-Roast X-CD-Roast X-CD-Roast is a GTK+ front-end for cdrtools which provides a graphical user interface for CD authoring.X-CD-Roast runs on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems... |
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| Application | Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
BSD | Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... |
Optical media support
Which single-sided optical media types the application supports.Please note that the list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common types in use (ie. not the now defunct HD DVD-R & UDO
Ultra Density Optical
Ultra Density Optical is an optical disc format designed for high-density storage of high-definition video and data.- Overview :...
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| Application | CD-R CD-R A CD-R is a variation of the Compact Disc invented by Philips and Sony. CD-R is a Write Once Read Many optical medium, though the whole disk does not have to be entirely written in the same session.... /W CD-RW A CD-RW is a rewritable optical disc. It was introduced in 1997, and was known as "CD-Writable" during development. It was preceded by the CD-MO, which was never commercially released.... |
DVD-R DVD-R DVD-R is a DVD recordable format. A DVD-R typically has a storage capacity of 4.71 GB. Pioneer has also developed an 8.5 GB dual layer version, DVD-R DL, which appeared on the market in 2005.... /RW DVD-RW A DVD-RW disc is a rewritable optical disc with equal storage capacity to a DVD-R, typically 4.7 GB. The format was developed by Pioneer in November 1999 and has been approved by the DVD Forum. The smaller Mini DVD-RW holds 1.46 GB, with a diameter of 8 cm.The primary advantage of DVD-RW over... /RAM DVD-RAM DVD-RAM is a disc specification presented in 1996 by the DVD Forum, which specifies rewritable DVD-RAM media and the appropriate DVD writers. DVD-RAM media have been used in computers as well as camcorders and personal video recorders since 1998.-Design:DVD-RAM is one of three competing... |
DVD+R DVD+R DVD+R is part of optical disc recording technologies. It is a format for optical disc data storage that utilizes digital recording. It is similar to, but incompatible with, the older DVD-R standard... /RW DVD+RW DVD+RW is a physical format for rewritable DVDs and can hold up to 4.7 GB. DVD+RW was created by the DVD+RW Alliance, an industry consortium of drive and disc manufacturers... |
DVD+R DVD+R DL DVD+R DL also called DVD+R9, is a derivative of the DVD+R format created by the DVD+RW Alliance. Its use was first demonstrated in October 2003. DVD+R DL discs employ two recordable dye layers, each capable of storing nearly the 4.7 GB capacity of a single-layer disc, almost doubling the total... /RW DL |
DVD-R DVD-R DL DVD-R DL , also called DVD-R9, is a derivative of the DVD-R format standard. DVD-R DL discs hold 8.54 GB per side by utilizing two recordable dye layers, each capable of storing nearly the 4.7 gigabyte of a single layer disc -almost doubling the total disc capacity... /RW DL |
BD-R/RE Blu-ray Disc recordable Blu-ray Disc recordable refers to two direct to disc optical disc recording technologies that can be recorded on to an optical disc with an optical disc recorder. BD-R discs can be written to once, whereas BD-RE can be erased and re-recorded multiple times... |
BD-R/RE DL Blu-ray Disc recordable Blu-ray Disc recordable refers to two direct to disc optical disc recording technologies that can be recorded on to an optical disc with an optical disc recorder. BD-R discs can be written to once, whereas BD-RE can be erased and re-recorded multiple times... |
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| BashBurn BashBurn BashBurn is a GNU GPL licensed CD burning application for the Linux console. It does not perform the actual burning itself, but acts as a menu driven frontend for cdrtools, cdrdao, dvd+rw-tools and other applications.As of now, BashBurn supports:... |
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| 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 .... |
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| ImgBurn ImgBurn ImgBurn is a freeware program that allows the recording of many types of CD/DVD images to recordable media . Starting with version 2.0.0.0, ImgBurn can also burn files and data directly to CD/DVD. It supports padding DVD-Video files so the layer break occurs on a proper cell boundary... |
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| InfraRecorder InfraRecorder InfraRecorder is an open source CD and DVD writing program for Microsoft Windows. First started by Christian Kindahl in the Google Summer of Code 2006, InfraRecorder uses the cdrtools software library to perform the actual burning.... |
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| K3b K3b K3b is a CD and DVD authoring application by KDE for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as more advanced tasks such as burning eMoviX... |
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| Nero Burning ROM Nero Burning ROM Nero Multimedia Suite is a popular software suite for Microsoft Windows by Nero AG . Version 10 of this product was released in April 2010.- Included products :The following applications are included in Nero 11 :Disc authoring... |
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| PowerISO PowerISO PowerISO is an application used to create, open, mount / emulate, compress, encrypt, and otherwise manipulate CD / DVD image files. It is most commonly known for its proprietary DAA disc image format. Other supported formats include ISO, BIN, NRG, and CDI. PowerISO is able to modify all supported... |
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| UltraISO UltraISO UltraISO is an application for Microsoft Windows for creating, modifying and converting ISO image files used for optical disc authoring.Since the first release of UltraISO on 20 April 2002, its author EZB Systems has maintained and kept the product shareware.UltraISO is currently produced by EZB... |
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| X-CD-Roast X-CD-Roast X-CD-Roast is a GTK+ front-end for cdrtools which provides a graphical user interface for CD authoring.X-CD-Roast runs on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems... |
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| Application | CD-R CD-R A CD-R is a variation of the Compact Disc invented by Philips and Sony. CD-R is a Write Once Read Many optical medium, though the whole disk does not have to be entirely written in the same session.... /W 737MB=702MiB CD-RW A CD-RW is a rewritable optical disc. It was introduced in 1997, and was known as "CD-Writable" during development. It was preceded by the CD-MO, which was never commercially released.... |
DVD-R DVD-R DVD-R is a DVD recordable format. A DVD-R typically has a storage capacity of 4.71 GB. Pioneer has also developed an 8.5 GB dual layer version, DVD-R DL, which appeared on the market in 2005.... /RW DVD-RW A DVD-RW disc is a rewritable optical disc with equal storage capacity to a DVD-R, typically 4.7 GB. The format was developed by Pioneer in November 1999 and has been approved by the DVD Forum. The smaller Mini DVD-RW holds 1.46 GB, with a diameter of 8 cm.The primary advantage of DVD-RW over... /RAM 4.707GB=4.384GiB DVD-RAM DVD-RAM is a disc specification presented in 1996 by the DVD Forum, which specifies rewritable DVD-RAM media and the appropriate DVD writers. DVD-RAM media have been used in computers as well as camcorders and personal video recorders since 1998.-Design:DVD-RAM is one of three competing... |
DVD+R DVD+R DVD+R is part of optical disc recording technologies. It is a format for optical disc data storage that utilizes digital recording. It is similar to, but incompatible with, the older DVD-R standard... /RW 4.700GB=4.378GiB DVD+RW DVD+RW is a physical format for rewritable DVDs and can hold up to 4.7 GB. DVD+RW was created by the DVD+RW Alliance, an industry consortium of drive and disc manufacturers... |
DVD+R DVD+R DL DVD+R DL also called DVD+R9, is a derivative of the DVD+R format created by the DVD+RW Alliance. Its use was first demonstrated in October 2003. DVD+R DL discs employ two recordable dye layers, each capable of storing nearly the 4.7 GB capacity of a single-layer disc, almost doubling the total... /RW DL 8.548GB=7.961GiB |
DVD-R DVD-R DL DVD-R DL , also called DVD-R9, is a derivative of the DVD-R format standard. DVD-R DL discs hold 8.54 GB per side by utilizing two recordable dye layers, each capable of storing nearly the 4.7 gigabyte of a single layer disc -almost doubling the total disc capacity... /RW DL 8.544GB=7.957GiB |
BD-R/RE 25GB=23.31GiB Blu-ray Disc recordable Blu-ray Disc recordable refers to two direct to disc optical disc recording technologies that can be recorded on to an optical disc with an optical disc recorder. BD-R discs can be written to once, whereas BD-RE can be erased and re-recorded multiple times... |
BD-R/RE DL 50GB=46.61GiB Blu-ray Disc recordable Blu-ray Disc recordable refers to two direct to disc optical disc recording technologies that can be recorded on to an optical disc with an optical disc recorder. BD-R discs can be written to once, whereas BD-RE can be erased and re-recorded multiple times... |
Filesystem support
Which filesystems the application supports.| Application | ISO 9660 ISO 9660 ISO 9660, also referred to as CDFS by some hardware and software providers, is a file system standard published by the International Organization for Standardization for optical disc media.... |
Joliet 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... |
Rock Ridge Rock Ridge The Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol is an extension to the ISO 9660 volume format, commonly used on CDROM and DVD media, which adds POSIX file system semantics... |
Amiga rock ridge | El Torito El Torito (CD-ROM standard) The El Torito Bootable CD Specification is an extension to the ISO 9660 CD-ROM specification. It is designed to allow a computer to boot from a CD-ROM... |
Apple ISO9660 Apple ISO9660 Extensions The primary file system for Apple Macintosh computers is HFS .The HFS file system has more properties than FAT file systems... |
UDF Universal Disk Format Universal Disk Format is an implementation of the specification known as ISO/IEC 13346 and ECMA-167 and is an open vendor-neutral file system for computer data storage for a broad range of media. In practice, it has been most widely used for DVDs and newer optical disc formats, supplanting ISO 9660... |
MRW Mount Rainier (packet writing) Mount Rainier is a format for writable optical discs which provides the packet writing and defect management. Its goal is the replacement of the floppy disk... |
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| BashBurn BashBurn BashBurn is a GNU GPL licensed CD burning application for the Linux console. It does not perform the actual burning itself, but acts as a menu driven frontend for cdrtools, cdrdao, dvd+rw-tools and other applications.As of now, BashBurn supports:... |
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| 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 .... |
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| ImgBurn ImgBurn ImgBurn is a freeware program that allows the recording of many types of CD/DVD images to recordable media . Starting with version 2.0.0.0, ImgBurn can also burn files and data directly to CD/DVD. It supports padding DVD-Video files so the layer break occurs on a proper cell boundary... |
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| InfraRecorder InfraRecorder InfraRecorder is an open source CD and DVD writing program for Microsoft Windows. First started by Christian Kindahl in the Google Summer of Code 2006, InfraRecorder uses the cdrtools software library to perform the actual burning.... |
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| K3b K3b K3b is a CD and DVD authoring application by KDE for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as more advanced tasks such as burning eMoviX... |
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| Nero Burning ROM Nero Burning ROM Nero Multimedia Suite is a popular software suite for Microsoft Windows by Nero AG . Version 10 of this product was released in April 2010.- Included products :The following applications are included in Nero 11 :Disc authoring... |
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| PowerISO PowerISO PowerISO is an application used to create, open, mount / emulate, compress, encrypt, and otherwise manipulate CD / DVD image files. It is most commonly known for its proprietary DAA disc image format. Other supported formats include ISO, BIN, NRG, and CDI. PowerISO is able to modify all supported... |
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| UltraISO UltraISO UltraISO is an application for Microsoft Windows for creating, modifying and converting ISO image files used for optical disc authoring.Since the first release of UltraISO on 20 April 2002, its author EZB Systems has maintained and kept the product shareware.UltraISO is currently produced by EZB... |
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| X-CD-Roast X-CD-Roast X-CD-Roast is a GTK+ front-end for cdrtools which provides a graphical user interface for CD authoring.X-CD-Roast runs on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems... |
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| Application | ISO 9660 ISO 9660 ISO 9660, also referred to as CDFS by some hardware and software providers, is a file system standard published by the International Organization for Standardization for optical disc media.... |
Joliet 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... |
Rock Ridge Rock Ridge The Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol is an extension to the ISO 9660 volume format, commonly used on CDROM and DVD media, which adds POSIX file system semantics... |
Amiga rockridge | El Torito El Torito (CD-ROM standard) The El Torito Bootable CD Specification is an extension to the ISO 9660 CD-ROM specification. It is designed to allow a computer to boot from a CD-ROM... |
Apple ISO9660 Apple ISO9660 Extensions The primary file system for Apple Macintosh computers is HFS .The HFS file system has more properties than FAT file systems... |
UDF Universal Disk Format Universal Disk Format is an implementation of the specification known as ISO/IEC 13346 and ECMA-167 and is an open vendor-neutral file system for computer data storage for a broad range of media. In practice, it has been most widely used for DVDs and newer optical disc formats, supplanting ISO 9660... |
MRW Mount Rainier (packet writing) Mount Rainier is a format for writable optical discs which provides the packet writing and defect management. Its goal is the replacement of the floppy disk... |
Disk image format support
Information which Disk imageDisk 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...
formats an application supports.
| Application | bin/cue | Apple disk image | img | ISO image ISO 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... |
Nero CD image NRG (file format) A .nrg file is a proprietary CD image file format used by Nero Burning ROM, a utility suite made by Nero AG, to create and burn ISO 9660 CD images.Other than Nero Burning ROM, a variety of software titles can use these image files... |
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| BashBurn BashBurn BashBurn is a GNU GPL licensed CD burning application for the Linux console. It does not perform the actual burning itself, but acts as a menu driven frontend for cdrtools, cdrdao, dvd+rw-tools and other applications.As of now, BashBurn supports:... |
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| 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 .... |
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| ImgBurn ImgBurn ImgBurn is a freeware program that allows the recording of many types of CD/DVD images to recordable media . Starting with version 2.0.0.0, ImgBurn can also burn files and data directly to CD/DVD. It supports padding DVD-Video files so the layer break occurs on a proper cell boundary... |
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| InfraRecorder InfraRecorder InfraRecorder is an open source CD and DVD writing program for Microsoft Windows. First started by Christian Kindahl in the Google Summer of Code 2006, InfraRecorder uses the cdrtools software library to perform the actual burning.... |
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| K3b K3b K3b is a CD and DVD authoring application by KDE for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as more advanced tasks such as burning eMoviX... |
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| Nero Burning ROM Nero Burning ROM Nero Multimedia Suite is a popular software suite for Microsoft Windows by Nero AG . Version 10 of this product was released in April 2010.- Included products :The following applications are included in Nero 11 :Disc authoring... |
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| PowerISO PowerISO PowerISO is an application used to create, open, mount / emulate, compress, encrypt, and otherwise manipulate CD / DVD image files. It is most commonly known for its proprietary DAA disc image format. Other supported formats include ISO, BIN, NRG, and CDI. PowerISO is able to modify all supported... |
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| UltraISO UltraISO UltraISO is an application for Microsoft Windows for creating, modifying and converting ISO image files used for optical disc authoring.Since the first release of UltraISO on 20 April 2002, its author EZB Systems has maintained and kept the product shareware.UltraISO is currently produced by EZB... |
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| X-CD-Roast X-CD-Roast X-CD-Roast is a GTK+ front-end for cdrtools which provides a graphical user interface for CD authoring.X-CD-Roast runs on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems... |
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| Application | bin/cue | Apple disk image | img | ISO image ISO 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... |
Nero CD image NRG (file format) A .nrg file is a proprietary CD image file format used by Nero Burning ROM, a utility suite made by Nero AG, to create and burn ISO 9660 CD images.Other than Nero Burning ROM, a variety of software titles can use these image files... |
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Standards support
Support for Rainbow BooksRainbow Books
The Rainbow Books are a collection of standards defining the formats of Compact Discs.Red BookYellow BookThe Rainbow Books are a collection of standards defining the formats of Compact Discs.Red Book...
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- Red bookRed Book (audio CD standard)Red Book is the standard for audio CDs . It is named after one of the Rainbow Books, a series of books that contain the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM formats.The first edition of the Red Book was released in 1980 by Philips and Sony; it was adopted by the Digital Audio Disc...
- Standard audio CD - Yellow bookYellow Book (CD standard)The Yellow Book is the standard that defines the format of CD-ROMs. The Yellow Book, created by Sony and Philips, was the first extension of the Red Book. It is named after one of a set of color-bound books that contain the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM formats.-External links:The...
- Standard CD-ROMCD-ROMA CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data.... - Orange Book - CD-RCD-RA CD-R is a variation of the Compact Disc invented by Philips and Sony. CD-R is a Write Once Read Many optical medium, though the whole disk does not have to be entirely written in the same session....
and CD-RWCD-RWA CD-RW is a rewritable optical disc. It was introduced in 1997, and was known as "CD-Writable" during development. It was preceded by the CD-MO, which was never commercially released.... - White Book - Video CDVideo CDBefore the advent of DVD and Blu-ray, the Video CD became the first format for distributing films on standard 120 mm optical discs. The format is a standard digital format for storing video on a Compact Disc...
, VCD and SVCD - Blue bookBlue Book specificationThe Blue Book or Enhanced Music CD specification describes the Enhanced Music CD format. The first session of an Enhanced Music CD contains audio information according to the Red Book...
- Enhanced CDEnhanced CDEnhanced CD, also known as CD Extra and CD Plus, is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both Compact Disc and CD-ROM players.... - Beige book - Photo CDPhoto CDPhoto CD is a system designed by Kodak for digitizing and saving photos in a CD. Launched in 1992, the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding. Photo CDs are defined in the Beige Book and conform to the CD-ROM XA and...
- Green bookGreen Book (CD-interactive standard)The Philips "Green Book" specifies the standard for interactive, multimedia compact discs designed for CD-i players . This compact disc format is unusual, because it hides the initial tracks which contains the software and data files used by the CD-i players. It does this by omitting the tracks...
- CD-iCD-iCD-i, or Compact Disc Interactive, is the name of an interactive multimedia CD player developed and marketed by Royal Philips Electronics N.V. CD-i also refers to the multimedia Compact Disc standard used by the CD-i console, also known as Green Book, which was developed by Philips and Sony...
discs - Purple book - Double Density Compact DiscDouble Density Compact DiscDouble-density compact disc is an optical disc technology developed by Sony using the same laser wave-length as compact disc, namely 780 nm...
- Scarlet book - Super Audio CDSuper Audio CDSuper Audio CD is a high-resolution, read-only optical disc for audio storage. Sony and Philips Electronics jointly developed the technology, and publicized it in 1999. It is designated as the Scarlet Book standard. Sony and Philips previously collaborated to define the Compact Disc standard...
| Application | Red Red Book (audio CD standard) Red Book is the standard for audio CDs . It is named after one of the Rainbow Books, a series of books that contain the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM formats.The first edition of the Red Book was released in 1980 by Philips and Sony; it was adopted by the Digital Audio Disc... |
Yellow Yellow Book (CD standard) The Yellow Book is the standard that defines the format of CD-ROMs. The Yellow Book, created by Sony and Philips, was the first extension of the Red Book. It is named after one of a set of color-bound books that contain the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM formats.-External links:The... |
Orange | White | Blue Blue Book specification The Blue Book or Enhanced Music CD specification describes the Enhanced Music CD format. The first session of an Enhanced Music CD contains audio information according to the Red Book... |
Beige | Green Green Book (CD-interactive standard) The Philips "Green Book" specifies the standard for interactive, multimedia compact discs designed for CD-i players . This compact disc format is unusual, because it hides the initial tracks which contains the software and data files used by the CD-i players. It does this by omitting the tracks... |
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| BashBurn BashBurn BashBurn is a GNU GPL licensed CD burning application for the Linux console. It does not perform the actual burning itself, but acts as a menu driven frontend for cdrtools, cdrdao, dvd+rw-tools and other applications.As of now, BashBurn supports:... |
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| ImgBurn ImgBurn ImgBurn is a freeware program that allows the recording of many types of CD/DVD images to recordable media . Starting with version 2.0.0.0, ImgBurn can also burn files and data directly to CD/DVD. It supports padding DVD-Video files so the layer break occurs on a proper cell boundary... |
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| InfraRecorder InfraRecorder InfraRecorder is an open source CD and DVD writing program for Microsoft Windows. First started by Christian Kindahl in the Google Summer of Code 2006, InfraRecorder uses the cdrtools software library to perform the actual burning.... |
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| K3b K3b K3b is a CD and DVD authoring application by KDE for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as more advanced tasks such as burning eMoviX... |
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| Nero Burning ROM Nero Burning ROM Nero Multimedia Suite is a popular software suite for Microsoft Windows by Nero AG . Version 10 of this product was released in April 2010.- Included products :The following applications are included in Nero 11 :Disc authoring... |
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| PowerISO PowerISO PowerISO is an application used to create, open, mount / emulate, compress, encrypt, and otherwise manipulate CD / DVD image files. It is most commonly known for its proprietary DAA disc image format. Other supported formats include ISO, BIN, NRG, and CDI. PowerISO is able to modify all supported... |
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| UltraISO UltraISO UltraISO is an application for Microsoft Windows for creating, modifying and converting ISO image files used for optical disc authoring.Since the first release of UltraISO on 20 April 2002, its author EZB Systems has maintained and kept the product shareware.UltraISO is currently produced by EZB... |
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| X-CD-Roast X-CD-Roast X-CD-Roast is a GTK+ front-end for cdrtools which provides a graphical user interface for CD authoring.X-CD-Roast runs on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems... |
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| Application | Red Red Book (audio CD standard) Red Book is the standard for audio CDs . It is named after one of the Rainbow Books, a series of books that contain the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM formats.The first edition of the Red Book was released in 1980 by Philips and Sony; it was adopted by the Digital Audio Disc... (CDDA) |
Yellow Yellow Book (CD standard) The Yellow Book is the standard that defines the format of CD-ROMs. The Yellow Book, created by Sony and Philips, was the first extension of the Red Book. It is named after one of a set of color-bound books that contain the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM formats.-External links:The... (CD-ROM CD-ROM A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data.... ) |
Orange Rainbow Books The Rainbow Books are a collection of standards defining the formats of Compact Discs.Red BookYellow BookThe Rainbow Books are a collection of standards defining the formats of Compact Discs.Red Book... (CD-R CD-R A CD-R is a variation of the Compact Disc invented by Philips and Sony. CD-R is a Write Once Read Many optical medium, though the whole disk does not have to be entirely written in the same session.... ) |
White (VCD VCD VCD is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:* VCD Athletic, semi-professional football team* Video CD* Voice command device* Value change dump * Vocal cord dysfunction* Visual Communication and Design... ) |
Blue Blue Book specification The Blue Book or Enhanced Music CD specification describes the Enhanced Music CD format. The first session of an Enhanced Music CD contains audio information according to the Red Book... (ECD Enhanced CD Enhanced CD, also known as CD Extra and CD Plus, is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both Compact Disc and CD-ROM players.... ) |
Beige (PCD Photo CD Photo CD is a system designed by Kodak for digitizing and saving photos in a CD. Launched in 1992, the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding. Photo CDs are defined in the Beige Book and conform to the CD-ROM XA and... ) |
Green Green Book (CD-interactive standard) The Philips "Green Book" specifies the standard for interactive, multimedia compact discs designed for CD-i players . This compact disc format is unusual, because it hides the initial tracks which contains the software and data files used by the CD-i players. It does this by omitting the tracks... (CD-I CD-i CD-i, or Compact Disc Interactive, is the name of an interactive multimedia CD player developed and marketed by Royal Philips Electronics N.V. CD-i also refers to the multimedia Compact Disc standard used by the CD-i console, also known as Green Book, which was developed by Philips and Sony... ) |
Purple Purple Book Purple Book is the informal name for Sony and Philips' specification document for the double-density Compact Disc format. The Purple Book format allows a CD to hold 1.3 Gigabytes by narrowing the track pitch from 1.6 to 1.1 micrometre s, and shortening the minimum pit length from 0.833 to 0.623... (DDCD) |
Scarlet (SACD Super Audio CD Super Audio CD is a high-resolution, read-only optical disc for audio storage. Sony and Philips Electronics jointly developed the technology, and publicized it in 1999. It is designated as the Scarlet Book standard. Sony and Philips previously collaborated to define the Compact Disc standard... ) |
User interface
Information which User interfaceUser interface
The user interface, in the industrial design field of human–machine interaction, is the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs. The goal of interaction between a human and a machine at the user interface is effective operation and control of the machine, and feedback from the...
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| Application | Command line interface | Graphical 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... |
Text user interface Text user interface TUI short for: Text User Interface or Textual User Interface , is a retronym that was coined sometime after the invention of graphical user interfaces, to distinguish them from text-based user interfaces... |
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| BashBurn BashBurn BashBurn is a GNU GPL licensed CD burning application for the Linux console. It does not perform the actual burning itself, but acts as a menu driven frontend for cdrtools, cdrdao, dvd+rw-tools and other applications.As of now, BashBurn supports:... |
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| ImgBurn ImgBurn ImgBurn is a freeware program that allows the recording of many types of CD/DVD images to recordable media . Starting with version 2.0.0.0, ImgBurn can also burn files and data directly to CD/DVD. It supports padding DVD-Video files so the layer break occurs on a proper cell boundary... |
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| InfraRecorder InfraRecorder InfraRecorder is an open source CD and DVD writing program for Microsoft Windows. First started by Christian Kindahl in the Google Summer of Code 2006, InfraRecorder uses the cdrtools software library to perform the actual burning.... |
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| K3b K3b K3b is a CD and DVD authoring application by KDE for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as more advanced tasks such as burning eMoviX... |
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| Nero Burning ROM Nero Burning ROM Nero Multimedia Suite is a popular software suite for Microsoft Windows by Nero AG . Version 10 of this product was released in April 2010.- Included products :The following applications are included in Nero 11 :Disc authoring... |
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| PowerISO PowerISO PowerISO is an application used to create, open, mount / emulate, compress, encrypt, and otherwise manipulate CD / DVD image files. It is most commonly known for its proprietary DAA disc image format. Other supported formats include ISO, BIN, NRG, and CDI. PowerISO is able to modify all supported... |
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| UltraISO UltraISO UltraISO is an application for Microsoft Windows for creating, modifying and converting ISO image files used for optical disc authoring.Since the first release of UltraISO on 20 April 2002, its author EZB Systems has maintained and kept the product shareware.UltraISO is currently produced by EZB... |
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| X-CD-Roast X-CD-Roast X-CD-Roast is a GTK+ front-end for cdrtools which provides a graphical user interface for CD authoring.X-CD-Roast runs on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems... |
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| Application | Command line interface | Graphical 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... |
Text user interface Text user interface TUI short for: Text User Interface or Textual User Interface , is a retronym that was coined sometime after the invention of graphical user interfaces, to distinguish them from text-based user interfaces... |
Miscellaneous features
| Application | Overburning | Buffer underrun protection | Virtual burner |
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See also
- Optical disc authoring software
- List of optical disc authoring software
- Comparison of ISO image softwareComparison of ISO image softwareThis article is a comparison of notable software applications that can access or manipulate ISO image files. It compares their ISO image handling capabilities.- Notes :...