k3b-18.12.2

Introduction to K3b

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.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.4 platform.

Package Information

K3b Dependencies

Required

KDE Frameworks-5.55.0, libkcddb-18.12.2, libsamplerate-0.1.9, and shared-mime-info-1.10

The CD/DVD drive is detected at run time using UDisks-2.8.1, which must therefore be installed before running k3b.

Recommended

FFmpeg-4.1.1, libburn-1.5.0, libdvdread-6.0.1, and taglib-1.11.1

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.

Optional

FLAC-1.3.2, LAME-3.100, libmad-0.15.1b, libsndfile-1.0.28, libvorbis-1.3.6, libmusicbrainz-2.1.5, and Musepack (libmpcdec)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/k3b

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KF5_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF                \
      -Wno-dev ..                        &&
make

make install