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brasero package

explain what the five projects are

Asked by jerrydc

I had hoped to send my questions to a particular guru but I don't know how to do that, so here are several embarrassingly simple questions. The Audio Project option is for burning music, I assume. The Data Project is for burning documents, I assume. Could you burn still pix using Video Project? I wanted to get all my documents, a song and 30-40 pix on one DVD, so I burned all of them to one using Data. That worked. Have I created any problems?

I take it Disc Copy copies a whole disc to another disc. Could you edit, change in any way the burned copy. When would you want to use this option?

I don't understand Burn Image at all. What is an image? What would you be burning and why?

I have a Sony internal DVD/CD RW drive and DVD+R RW discs, and Ubuntu 10.04.

jerrydc

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Aruna Hewapathirane (aruna-hewapathirane) said : 		#1

Please activate Brasero, there is a menu bar at the top -> Project - Edit - Tools - Help. Select Help and then under help click contents. May take a while then the Brasero Help documentation will open up, Select the third option "Creating a New Project". All the different project types are explained in detal here.

A disc image is a common name for a sector-by-sector image of the entire data area of a data CD or DVD disc. The name grew from the common use of ISO9660 as the file system for CD media.

An ISO image (or .ISO file) is a computer file that is an EXACT copy of an existing file system. An ISO can contain the entire contents of a CD-ROM disc or CD medium. ISO files are typically created through a software application that will open, create, edit, and extract CD or DVD image files, then convert the extracted image to an ISO file, easily allowing users to burn an exact copy of the original onto CD or DVD.

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jerrydc (jerryny) said : 		#2

Please understand that I looked through the help contents and help online on the Brasero menu bar and a good number of other places and found no explanation whatsoever of what was meant by each of the projects. The creating projects pages explain how to make a burn, but not why or when you should use this method rather than that one. I would not have asked such simple questions without searching for answers first.

Your reply seems to say that a disc image does just what an ISO image does. Interesting, but that still does not tell me what the difference is, if any, between Disc Copy and Burn Image projects?

I also had some other questions, too.

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Best Aruna Hewapathirane (aruna-hewapathirane) said : 		#3

Disc Copy - Will create an EXACT copy of a CD or DVD.

Burn Image will create a CD or DVD that contains files - data - audio - can be anything 'you' so wish to store from your hard drive or any other source such as a usb, external drive...

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jerrydc (jerryny) said : 		#4

Thanks Aruna Hewapathirane-අරැණ හේවාපතිරණ, that solved my question.