I have been fighting with Nero all day trying to force it to burn an image that I downloaded recently. The image is a new beta version of Dream Linux Multimeda Edition. If you’re not familiar with Dream Linux, you should be. It looks markedly similar to Mac OS X and seems to be a bit easier to use for my kids. Now we’re a PC school, but the interface is relatively intuitive.
So after making a few frisbees compliments of Nero, I recalled having downloaded an open source burning software once before. I have used Nero for years with mixed results, and my PC has two CD/DVD burners, and I tried both, to no avail. I hopped over to www.burnatonce.net and found my software. It it easy to use, and burned my CD in 3 mins and 26 seconds at 48x. Of course, since this is an ISO image, I might not have burned it at 48x normally, but I was tired of waiting. The CD is booting on my laptop as we speak.
As you can see, the main screen is fairly simple. The goal of this software seems to be to burn ISO images to discs. I did not explore to see whether disc copying was available, but it looks to be.
The settings screen also is fairly straightforward.
Do yourself a favor, make your life easier when it comes to disc burning, go download burnatonce at once!
Burnatonce is not open source nor GPL. It is a frontend for the command line burner CDRDAO, and only CDRDAO is open source, not burnatonce itself.
[...] Burnatonce – Open Source CD/DVD Burning SoftwareSo after making a few frisbees compliments of Nero, I recalled having downloaded an open source burning software once before. I have used Nero for years with mixed results, and my PC has two CD/DVD burners, and I tried both, . Filed under DVD Burners by articlenetwork [...]
Be wary of burning DVDs with BAO. It’s excellent software for CDs but is much less reliable dealing with DVDs.