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 going to Application LauncherMultimediaCD & DVD Burning (K3b).

  2. Follow the Quickguide: Copying a Data-CD in 4 Steps located 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-extracodecs package. Please refer to the Adding Applications document for help on installing applications.

  2. Launch k3b by Application LauncherMultimediaCD & DVD Burning (K3b).

  3. Follow the Quickguide: Burning an Audio-CD in 4 Steps located in the K3B handbook.

Rip a DVD with K3B

  1. Install the following packages

    transcode
    libxvidcore4
    sox
    mjpegtools
    toolame
    libdvdread

    . Please refer to the Adding Applications document for help on installing applications.

  2. Follow the How to rip a DVD and encode it into an MPEG-4 AVI with K3b located in the K3b Handbook.

Generate MD5 Checksum files

  1. Open Konsole by going to Application LauncherSystemTerminal (Konsole).

  2. At the command prompt type the following line and then press the Enter key: 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. Open Konsole by going to Application LauncherSystemTerminal (Konsole).

  2. Assuming that file.iso and file.iso.md5 are in the same folder, type the following at the command prompt and then press the Enter key:

    md5sum -c file.iso.md5
    

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

  1. Open Konsole by going to Application LauncherSystemTerminal (Konsole).

  2. To mount Image (ISO) file type the following at the command prompt, pressing the Enter key after every line:

    sudo mkdir /media/iso
    sudo modprobe loop 
    sudo mount file.iso /media/iso/ -t iso9660 -o loop
    
  3. To unmount an Image (ISO) file, type the following at the command prompt and then press the Enter key:

    sudo umount /media/iso/
    
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