Brasero vs K3B: CD Burning in Linux July 13, 2008
Posted by NAyK in Brasero, K3B, Linux, Recommendation, Reviews, Software, Ubuntu, Working with Linux.Tags: CD Burning, comparison
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In this site I have not hidden my preference for KDE over GNOME, and also my preference for K3B. However, for K3B my comparison was mainly Nero or GNOME’s older default burning application. With Ubuntu 8 point whatever, and thus also in Linux Mint 5 (which I am currently using in one of my computers) came the Ubuntu CD Burner Brasero. And I was keen to see how it worked. Here’s a brief comparison through a real-life incident: (note I’m using Linux Mint 5 (Elyssa I think) here which has GNOME, but I’ve loaded some key KDE applications including K3B).
BRASERO: I tried Brasero (0.7.1) for basic CD burning and it was pretty good… burned iso files and CD data files without problem. I still found it a little too simplistic, but then, that’s GNOME trait, so why blame Brasero? However, recently I tried burning directly out of a video camera. ie. I had digital files that were stored in a video camera and I tried to burn onto a CD using Brasero. When I launched Brasero, it started testing the MDSUMS of the CD (why, I don’t know)… and that process too over four minutes… and without any indication of how much time was passed or remaining. After the checking process, the CD started burning and it too about 3.5 minutes.
K3B: Since I had many video files on my camera (more than 700 MB), I decided to burn the remaining files using K3B (1.0.4), perhaps hoping that the process would be faster. And guess what, K3B almost instantly started burning the files from the camera and took a little more than 4 minutes (4.1) to burn 700 MB. The whole process was almost 50% faster than Brasero (if we take the entire process into account).
Conclusion: I can’t help but think that K3B is an excellent (even superior) CD burning solution, even in comparison to Brasero. Therefore, if Brasero is loaded on GNOME machines I would still personally recommend everyone install and use K3B as their default CD-burner instead.
I’ve tried Brasero and returned to K3B. Every time I burn a CD with Brasero it says the verification failed the CD is invalid. But md5sum verifies the CD is OK. So I burn with Brasero but don’t let it give the false verification and check with md5sum on the CLI. Better yet is just use K3b and do it all in one step.
No other CD/DVD burning program comes even close to K3b in both Linux and Windows platforms.
The only gripe that I hape against K3b is that it starts very slowly in my GNOME desktop abd that it doesn’t integrate well with GNOME in terms of theming.
But I guess those problems would be solved with KDE4 versions of K3b
I use k3b when possible and think it’s a great program but for some reason it doesn’t like the latest batch of dvd-rw’s I bought and won’t burn them at all. Then I go to brasero and it works great. Nice to have multiple choices of good pgms.
Thanks, just started using Ubuntu and refused to delete my Windows partition because that’s where I go to burn all my DVD’s and CD’s. Only one question: does anyone know of a program similar to Nero Vision – a program that will take any video file, convert it into a .mpg (even convert PAL to NTSC) and then burn it to a DVD? Thanks
Yes, try mencoder, DeVeDe, or DVDStyler and then the result can be burnt to DVD. I highly recommend using mencoder+DVDStyler together; together they both handle creating DVDs wonderfully. If that’s not good for you, use mandvd.
FYI, the checksum is a plugin. You can disable it under the View (I think) > Plugins menu item. Burning will then start immediately just like K3B.
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I think still Brasero has miles to go to become a competitor of K3B. K3B rocks! and there is no alternate of this.
Everytime I use brasero to give it a try I return to KB3 , really is one of the best burner, also everybody can try Gnome baker is ok but sometime crash, in other words KB3 rocks
If you don’t want Brasero to check the MDSUMS just check out the boxes in “Plugins”.
When I used Windows I used Nero & only thing came close in ubuntu was K3b
in brasero, just go to edit, plugin and disable all because they are useless, but brasero is a good burner, when you disable those useless plugins brasero will be better, i have not tried k3b so much so i cant say anything…
agreed