Bug#697187: brasero: cannot burn BD

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

> I just have not found a command-line tool that is convenient enough to use.

Well, convenience is a relative thing.


> I need:
> - data CDs / DVDs / BDs

I could offer you xorriso.
  http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso
It is entirely specialized on ISO 9660 filesystems which it puts onto
optical media or into disk files.

Many distros have it in package "libisoburn", because its implementation
is part of that library.


> - audio or mixed CDs

I could offer cdrskin for pure audio.
Mixed CDs need CD-XA format. For that you will have to resort to cdrecord
or wodim.


> - sometimes bootable DVDs / CDs

xorriso produces the installation ISO images for Debian and Ubuntu.
It is the ISO producer used by GRUB2 tool grub-mkrescue.

Afaik, they all use it by its mkisofs emulation interface, to ease
their migration from mkisofs.
The capabilities of xorriso surpass those of mkisofs when it comes to
modern hybrid layouts of bootable ISO 9660.


> a tool to use Lightscribe. I am rather
> surprised there are no programmes at all for this purpose in Debian.

I think one of my burners could do LightScribe but i have no
suitable media. Also it looks miserably inferior to printable
media, which are easy to purchase and allow color printing.

The reason for no support in Debian is possibly in the license
agreements like on
  http://www.lightscribe.com/downloadSection/linux/index.aspx?id=816
HP skillfully avoids to disclose the SCSI commands by which the
burner is told what to do. But that would be the base for me being
interested in implementing it.

That said, did you already try this one:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/qlscribe/


Have a nice day :)

Thomas