The K3b package contains a KF5-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. It is used 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.
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Download (HTTP): https://download.kde.org/stable/release-service/23.08.0/src/k3b-23.08.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: c1cf504d389ee4be923c5604fbf21f97
Download size: 10 MB
Estimated disk space required: 125 MB
Estimated build time: 0.9 SBU (using parallelism=4)
KDE Frameworks-5.109.0, libkcddb-23.08.0, libsamplerate-0.2.2, and shared-mime-info-2.2
The CD/DVD drive is detected at run time using UDisks-2.10.1, which must therefore be installed before running k3b.
libburn-1.5.6, libdvdread-6.1.3, and taglib-1.13.1
There are programs from three packages that k3b will look for at runtime: Cdrtools-3.02a09 (required to burn CD-ROM media), dvd+rw-tools-7.1 (required to burn or format DVD media), and Cdrdao-1.2.4 (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.
FLAC-1.4.3, LAME-3.100, libmad-0.15.1b, libsndfile-1.2.2, libvorbis-1.3.7, libmusicbrainz-2.1.5, and Musepack (libmpcdec)
Install K3b by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KF5_PREFIX \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
-Wno-dev .. &&
makeThis package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install