{{Short description|Optical disc authoring software}} {{Infobox software | logo = Breezeicons-apps-48-k3b.svg | logo size = 70px | screenshot = K3b 21.12.0 screenshot.png | screenshot size = 250px | caption = Screenshot of K3b version 21.12.0 on Arch Linux | author = Sebastian Trüg | developer = KDE | released = <!-- {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | latest release version = {{Wikidata|property|reference|edit|Q131570|P348|P548=Q2804309}} | latest release date = {{Start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|Q131570|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}}} | latest preview version = <!-- {{Wikidata|property|reference|edit|Q131570|P348|P548=Q51930650}} --> | latest preview date = <!-- {{Start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|Q131570|P348|P548=Q51930650|P577}}}} --> | programming language = C++ (Qt)<ref name="ohloh">{{cite web |url=http://www.ohloh.net/p/k3b |title=Ohloh Analysis Summary - K3b |publisher=Ohloh |archive-date=2013-10-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024063832/http://www.ohloh.net/p/k3b }}</ref> | operating system = Unix-like | platform = KDE Platform | genre = Optical disc authoring | license = GPL-2.0-or-later<ref name="ohloh" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/multimedia/k3b/COPYING?view=markup |title=K3b sources - COPYING |publisher=websvn.kde.org |access-date=2010-05-14 }}{{dead link|date=August 2016|bot=medic}}</ref> | website = {{Official URL}} }}
'''K3b''' (from '''KDE Burn Baby Burn''')<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dot.kde.org/2006/04/17/k3b-fundraiser-2006-complete-success |title=<nowiki>K[4]B?</nowiki> |date=17 April 2006 |access-date=2009-03-11}}</ref> is a CD, DVD and Blu-ray authoring application by KDE for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as more advanced tasks such as burning eMoviX CD/DVDs. It can also perform direct disc-to-disc copies.
==Overview== The program has many default settings which can be customized by more experienced users. The actual disc recording in K3b is done by the command line utilities cdrecord or cdrkit, cdrdao, and growisofs. K3b also features a built-in DVD ripper.
As is the case with most KDE applications, K3b is written in the C++ programming language and uses the Qt GUI toolkit.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kde.org/whatiskde/devview.php |title=Developer's View |access-date=2007-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070202191430/http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/devview.php |archive-date=2007-02-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/ |title=Language bindings |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070329083426/http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/ |archive-date=2007-03-29 }}</ref> Released under the GNU General Public License, K3b is free software.
A first alpha of a KDE Platform 4 version of K3b was released on 22 April 2009, the second on 27 May 2009 and a third on 14 October 2009.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://k3b.org/ |title=Project home page announcement |access-date=2009-05-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.mandriva.com/2009/03/19/mandriva-helps-porting-k3b-in-qt4/ |title=Mandriva helps porting K3b in Qt4 |access-date=2009-03-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090324060244/http://blog.mandriva.com/2009/03/19/mandriva-helps-porting-k3b-in-qt4/ |archive-date=2009-03-24 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=23 March 2009 |url=http://trueg.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/intermission-why-i-needed-to-fork-qprocess-for-k3b/ |title=Intermission: Why I Needed to Fork QProcess for K3b |access-date=2009-03-23}}</ref>
K3b is a software project that was started in 1998, and is one of the mainstays of the KDE desktop.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
==Features== Some of K3b's main features include: * Data CD/DVD burning * Audio CD burning * CD-Text support * Blu-ray/DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD-RW/DVD+RW support * CD-R/CD-RW support * Mixed Mode CD (CD-DA and -ROM on one disc) * Multisession CD * Video CD/Video DVD authoring * eMovix CD/eMovix DVD * Disk-to-disk CD and DVD copying * Erasing Rewritable discs * ISO image support * Ripping audio CDs, video CDs, video DVDs
K3b can also burn data CDs that support Universal Disk Format (UDF), Rock Ridge, and Joliet file systems.
==See also== {{Portal|Free and open-source software}} * List of optical disc authoring software * Comparison of DVD ripper software * Brasero, a GTK+ optical disc authoring program.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Official website}} * [https://userbase.kde.org/K3b K3b UserBase Wiki] * [https://bugs.kde.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=k3b Bug tracker]
{{KDE}} {{Optical disc image software}} {{Disk image emulators software}} {{Media player (application software)|free}}
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