Introduction to K3b
The K3b package contains a
KDE-based graphical interface to the Cdrtools and dvd+rw-tools CD/DVD manipulation tools. It
also combines the capabilities of many other multimedia packages
into one central interface to provide a simple-to-operate
application that can be used to handle many of your CD/DVD
recording and formatting requirements. This is useful for creating
audio, data, video and mixed-mode CDs as well as copying, ripping
and burning CDs and DVDs.
Though K3b can be used to copy
almost any DVD to similar medium, it does not provide a way to
copy, or reproduce a double-layer DVD onto single-layer medium. Of
course, there is not a program anywhere on any platform that can
make an exact duplicate of a double-layer DVD onto a single-layer
disk, there are programs on some platforms that can compress the
data on a double-layer DVD to fit on a single-layer DVD producing a
duplicate, but compressed, image. If you need to copy the contents
of a double-layer DVD to single-layer medium, you may want to look
at the RMLCopyDVD package.
Package Information
K3b Dependencies
Required
kdelibs-3.5.9
There are programs from three packages that K3b will look for at runtime: Cdrtools-2.01
(required to burn CD-ROM media), dvd+rw-tools-7.0
(required to burn or format DVD media), and Cdrdao-1.2.2 (required to
burn CD-ROM media in DAO (Disk At Once) mode). If you don't need
the capability provided by any of the three packages, you don't
have to install it. However, a warning message will be generated
every time you run the k3b program if any are not
installed.
Recommended
kdebase-3.5.9, libjpeg-6b,
kdemultimedia-3.5.9 (required for a
working audio player)
Optional
ALSA-1.0.13, CDParanoia-III-9.8, FFmpeg-svn_20070606,
FLAC-1.2.1,
HAL-0.5.9.1 and D-Bus Qt3 Bindings-0.62, LAME-3.97, libmad-0.15.1b,
libmusicbrainz-2.1.5, libvorbis-1.2.0,
libxml2-2.6.31, libsndfile, MoviX, Musepack (libmpcdec),
normalize,
resmgr, Secret
Rabbit Code (libsamplerate), SoX, TagLib, and
VCDImager
For an explanation how each package is used by K3b, see the Requirements page at http://k3b.plainblack.com/requirements.
Runtime Requirements for DVD Ripping and Encoding
Transcode-1.0.3, XviD-1.1.3, libdvdread-0.9.7, and libdvdcss-1.2.9
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/k3b
Installation of K3b
Install K3b by running the
following commands:
./configure --prefix=$(kde-config --prefix) \
--sysconfdir=/etc/kde \
--disable-debug \
--disable-dependency-tracking &&
make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install
Command Explanations
--prefix=$(kde-config
--prefix): This parameter uses kde-config to establish the
prefix of the existing KDE installation and then sets the
installation prefix for K3b to the
same value.
--disable-debug: This
option causes the package to be compiled without debugging code.
--disable-dependency-tracking: This
option speeds up one time builds.
Configuring k3b
Configuration
Information
You will need to ensure that any user of K3b has permission to read and write to the
CD/DVD/audio hardware device files. The easiest way to do this is
by creating groups (audio, video, cdrecord, dvdrecord, etc.,) and
then add users to the appropriate groups. You'll also have to
ensure that the Udev rules are
set up appropriately if you are using a system where the device
files are created during the system boot-up sequence.
There is a script installed (k3bsetup) that is a front-end
to the k3bsetup2 KControlModule. This script can be accessed as a
pull-down menu from the K3b GUI and requires root user privileges (root privileges are acquired through the use
of the automatically-launched kdesud program). Though this
utility can be used to set the appropriate permissions for the
device files, be forewarned that in a Udev environment, where the
device files are created during the system boot-up sequence, any
changes made by this utility will not be preserved across system
boots.