Brasero Burning

ghostdawg · Member Joined: 27 Dec 2025 Posts: 130 Location: MO

Happy New Year to all and I hope it be a safe one.

I was trying to burn an iso file to a dvd+ disc using Brasero and everything seems to be going good until time to click the 'burn' button, but it is greyed out. No matter which iso I choose, the burn button always greyed out.

Does anybody else have this problem with Brasero? I'm doing this with Debian.

Thnx.

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tlmiller · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2025 3:56 pm Post subject:

In Brasero with Fedora my burn buttons weren't greyed out, but every time I tried to burn, it would fail before it actually started burning, regardless of WHAT I was trying to burn. I gave up and installed k3b and removed the garbage pail that is Brasero, despite it requiring all KDE packages. Haven't had an issue burning since then though.

Just went to show me how far behind k3b most of the other gui burning tools are.

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eriefisher · Jr. Member Joined: 12 Jul 2025 Posts: 89

There have been a lot of reports about Brasero problems. I don't know that they got it figured out yet. I would try another app such as Gnomebaker, K3B or even Xfburn which is shaping up nicely. Xfburn is taking a lot of it's design from K3B.

lynch · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2025 6:49 pm Post subject:

You can't beat k3b. The only other burning utility for Linux I liked was XCDRoast. Anybody remember that one? Smile

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tlmiller · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2025 6:59 pm Post subject:

I do. I attempted to use it early in my linux days. I never really figured out how to get it working right. But then, I coudln't figure out anythng back then.

masinick · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2025 7:23 pm Post subject: K3B is my favorite burner too

Considering that K3B was the one app that finally got me away from using command line cdrecord (which has since been superseded anyway by another app, wodim, if I remember correctly, I agree. K3B is, at times, the reason that I will run KDE rather than something else on a given day. I have found xfburn to work well, as a few of you have. I may have done one or two burns in the past with either Brasero or GNOME Baker, but frankly, I like the K3B interface. Very little guess work, and it makes the right choices, unless I specifically want to do something, like run in DAO mode and cut the speed, which I can easily do with it. K3B is what brought me away from the command line, and it came at a time when they were moving from the dev 0,1,0 convention to the /dev specs typically used today. Either way, if they change their mind five times about where things are, K3B takes care of those details for me and it works, so it remains my favorite ISO image burning program.

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pbharris · Member Joined: 02 Jul 2025 Posts: 320 Location: chicago

ah this is what i use at command line:

make a dvd video w/ vob structure:
growisofs -Z /dev/hdb -dvd-video /di/with/AUDIO_VIDEO/
To burn an ISO of a DVD:
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso
Make a data DVD from files:
growisofs -M /dev/dvd -R -J /more/files
Also use for non-dvd:
cdrecord -dev 0,1,0 speed=4 discname.iso

tlmiller · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2025 8:07 pm Post subject:

masinick · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2025 8:28 pm Post subject: Good old cdrecord command

lynch · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2025 9:08 pm Post subject:

XCDRoast was just a graphical frontend for cdrecord, IIRC.

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Germ · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2025 1:07 am Post subject:

JP · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2025 4:08 am Post subject:

I've never tried Brasero, used K3b a couple of times and didn't like it, I prefer the CLI to the GUI's. That way I don't have to load KDE/Gnome libs and such Razz

....... you can blame crouse, Germ, sidux and others for that ...... once they got me started, I never turned back to GUI's Wink

USALUG Tutorial and How To INDEX page Clik Wink

Check out these USALUG threads -
How To Check MD5sums On A Linux ISO Clik Wink

Checklist before burning your Linux CD Clik Wink

Burning ISOs- The Command Line Way Clik Wink

Creating an ISO file from a CD -- Via The Command Line Clik Wink

sidux CLI tutorials here Clik Wink

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Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2025 4:33 am Post subject:

For most things Nautilus serves me well for burning data cds and DVDs. serpentine for audio cds. cdrecord/wodim and growisofs also have their places for me.

But if i'm doing anything exotic i still turn to k3b

now if only they could rewrite it so that it didn't depend on so much of the KDE libraries.

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ghostdawg · Member Joined: 27 Dec 2025 Posts: 130 Location: MO

Thanks for the replies. I did end up using xfburn. It's part of XFCE and a little more lightweight than K3B. I know k3b is one of the best around but I just hate getting all the other kde libs installed.

Thnx.

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