Burning and Ripping CDs/DVDs
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Burning and Ripping CDs/DVDs

Burning a Photo or Data CD/DVD

  1. Launch k3b by choosing K-Menu->Multimedia->k3b (CD and DVD Burning)

  2. Follow the steps to burn a data CD (Offline Help) in the K3B handbook.

Burning an Audio CD/DVD

  1. If you want to burn mp3 files into audio CDs, you will need to install the libk3b2-mp3 package from the Universe repository (see the section called “Managing Repositories”).

  2. Launch k3b by choosing K-Menu->Multimedia->k3b (CD and DVD Burning)

  3. Follow the steps to burn an audio CD (Offline Help) in the K3B handbook.

Rip a DVD with K3B

  1. Install the following packages

    transcode
    libxvidcore4
    sox
    mjpegtools
    toolame
    libdvdread

    from the Universe and Multiverse repository (see the section called “Managing Repositories”).

  2. Launch k3b by choosing K-Menu->Multimedia->k3b (CD and DVD Burning)

  3. Follow the steps to Rip a DVD and Encode it (Offline Help) in the K3B handbook.

Generate MD5 Checksum files

  • To save the md5sum of file.iso to a file, run:

    md5sum file.iso > file.iso.md5

Check MD5 checksum of an ISO image

  1. Assuming that file.iso and file.iso.md5 are in the same folder. 

  2. md5sum -c file.iso.md5

Mount/unmount Image (ISO) files without burning to CD

  1. To mount Image (ISO) file

    sudo mkdir /media/iso
sudo modprobe loop 
sudo mount file.iso /media/iso/ -t iso9660 -o loop

  2. To unmount Image (ISO) file

    sudo umount /media/iso/
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