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arce
March 30th, 2009, 09:45 PM
How can I burn a Iso or other to multiple DVD burners?

I don't see this option in Brasero.

I have more then 1 burner and sometimes like to burn the same Project/ISO/CD/DVD to all of the drives. What project would let me do this? I also need to burn at specific speeds. I need many choices at what speeds I burn.

supersonicdarky
March 30th, 2009, 09:48 PM
Perhaps you can try just opening 2 instances of bracero and let each have its own drive?

kanikilu
March 30th, 2009, 09:55 PM
If you don't mind installing all the KDE-related stuff that comes along with it, K3b is about the best CD/DVD burning program around...

arce
March 31st, 2009, 03:36 AM
Ok K3B works great. But it doesn't support multiple drivers.

Supersonic.

I used to use Nero and it would be no problem. I think it is more of a hassle to open individual instances of K3b or Brasero to burn across multiple DVD's.

Any suggestions?

MockY
March 31st, 2009, 06:54 AM
If Nero worked for you, why not continue to use it?
http://www.nero.com/enu/linux3.html

arce
March 31st, 2009, 07:33 PM
You made my day!

Thanks

arce
April 1st, 2009, 04:12 AM
Well its great to see the familiar Nero,,, But not support to burn to multiple drives. Any ideas?

3rdalbum
April 1st, 2009, 05:13 AM
There used to be a program in the repositories that could burn to multiple discs simultaneously, but it's not there anymore.

On the odd occasion that I need some simultaneous burning, I just open three instances of whatever program I'm using.

If you do a lot of burning you could write a simple script like this:



#!/bin/sh
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/scd0=image.iso &
sleep 2
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/scd1=image.iso &
sleep 2
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/scd2=image.iso


Replace "image.iso" with the path of your disc image, and /dev/scd0 with the device file name of your first DVD burner, and the other device file names accordingly.

The reason why there doesn't seem to be a program to wrap this up in a GUI is because I started, but never finished, writing the program :-)

arce
April 1st, 2009, 08:58 PM
Please finish it:) I can't believe the Nero Linux doesn't have it.