k3b-25.12.2

Introduction to K3b

The K3b package contains a KDE Frameworks-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 dual-layer DVD onto a single-layer disk. Of course, there is not a program anywhere on any platform that can make an exact duplicate of a dual-layer DVD onto a single-layer disk, but there are programs on some platforms that can compress the data on a dual-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 a single-layer disk, you may want to look at the RMLCopyDVD package.

Package Information

K3b Dependencies

Required

KDE Frameworks-6.23.0, libkcddb-25.12.2, libsamplerate-0.2.2, and shared-mime-info-2.4

The CD/DVD drive is detected at run time using UDisks-2.11.1, which must therefore be installed before running k3b.

Recommended

libburn-1.5.6, libdvdread-7.0.1, and taglib-2.2

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-1.2.6 (required to burn CD-ROM media in DAO (Disk At Once) mode). If you don't need the capabilities provided by any of the three packages, you don't have to install them. However, a warning message will be generated every time you run the k3b program if any of them are not installed.

Optional Runtime

FFmpeg-8.0.1

Optional

FLAC-1.5.0, LAME-3.100, libmad-0.15.1b, libsndfile-1.2.2, libvorbis-1.3.7, and Musepack (libmpcdec)

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KF6_PREFIX \
      -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -D BUILD_TESTING=OFF                \
      -W no-dev ..                        &&
make

make install