Changes in 1.0.5
* Fixed CD Copy device selection when starting from the KDE "run" dialog
* Fixed HAL mounting (thanks to Ken Milmore)
* Always wait for the drive to become ready before starting verification
(this should fix some of the problems with failed verification where K3b
claims that no medium is in the drive.)
Changes in 1.0.4
* K3b now silently allows the burning of files bigger than 4 GB if an
appropriate version of genisoimage or mkisofs is installed ("silently"
means that I did not introduce any new messages)
* I was not able to find the aweful "disabled DMA" bug but I introduced
a little workaround which hopefully solves it for many of you (BTW: K3b
from svn trunk does support DVD burning with cdrecord.)
* Never use growisofs parameter -dvd-compat with DVD-RW media in
restricted overwrite mode (some drivesdo not like that)
* Unmount medium before DVD formatting
pkgsrc change: include patch from PR kern/36030 to work around a problem
that can cause NetBSD to panic or just not read a CD.
1.0.3
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* Reverted to old behaviour of reloading medium before verification. Not
enough testing had been done before introducing this and some systems
fail to read the medium before reload.
* Do not crash when the currently playing audio project item is removed.
* Added desktop actions to handle empty media with K3b.
* Fixed read retry when reading data tracks
* K3b's dialogs now honor the global button layout setting
* Do not crash on mp3 files without tags if compiled with taglib support
* Do not allow to copy a rewritable media to itself.
* Fixed crash on startup with devices that return bogus GET PERFORMANCE
data
1.0.2
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* Properly determine the capacity of complete CD-R(W) media.
* Mark a data project as modified if files are renamed.
* Allow adding of all actions to the welcome window
* Added "NoDisplay=true" property to k3b-cue.desktop and k3b-iso.desktop
* Fixed supported write speed detection on some devices
* No reload before verification and between writing sessions (CD copy +
Mixed Mode CD) anymore
* Fixed crash when using the Device menu without a selected device.
* Fixed DVD copy when reading from a DVD+RW.
* Fixed --without-alsa configure check
* Fixed a crash in Video DVD ripping when the title does not contain an
audio stream
* Only use the mkisofs parameters -biblio, -copyright, and -abstract if
they have been set. Using them with invalid values (empty) seems to
sometimes result in broken iso images.
* Better compatibility with recent transcode development branch
* Fixed Multisession import size handling.
* Fixed Lame quality preset handling.
* Made libk3bdevice really thread-safe. This fixes the disabled DMA bug!
* New configure check --without-cdrecord-suid-root to disable K3b's check
for cdrecord permissions. Although not recommended it is requested by
many distributors.
* Changed the order of the buttons in the tool dialogs to match the
default KDE order.
* Added handling of the newly introduced genisoimage parameter
-allow-limited-size
* Make the K3b Sox audio encoder plugin work with newer sox versions
(Thanks, Stephan Binner.)
define of Qt set, but ships with a Single Unix Specification compliant
iconv.h, don't use the FreeBSD (libiconv) or NetBSD (incorrect iconv.h)
code. This should be fixed upstream by utilising the ICONV_CONST
configure test, but for a local pkgsrc fix it is too much work.
1.0rc4
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* K3b now includes a VideoDVD kio slave. It can be used in Konqueror through the protocol videodvd:/
to copy the files from a VideoDVD with on-the-fly decryption if libdvdcss is installed.
(Be aware that in some countries it is not permitted to use libdvdcss.)
* New Device menu containing all the actions possible for a device (like eject, unmount, ...).
This includes the possibility of assigning shortcuts to these kind of actions.
* K3b now warns if user parameters for external programs have been specified. This has been introduced
because there were some bug report that were caused by faulty user parameters.
* Cleaned up all the job classes: No job creates a widget anymore. This allows for non-GUI usage of libk3b.
For example in a kioslave.
* New option in the data project to not cache the inodes. That means it is possible to have multiple
actual copies of the same file on one CD/DVD.
* K3b now tries to disable stuff that might influence the burning process. This includes the KDED module
mediamanager, SuSEPlugger, and automounting (currently supported: subfs, supermount).
* New Audio Track source editor dialog to cut audio track sources at the beginning and the end.
* Splitted "read retries" and "ignore read errors" for data and audio sectors in cd copy and set new
defaults for audio sectors which make more sense: 5 retires and skip unreadable sectors.
* New Mediamanager which makes K3b always know which device contains which medium. This makes medium handling
more smooth and the user now selects a medium instead of a device.
Other advantages:
- No waiting time anymore when asking for information on media (including for example Audio CD ripping).
- Nice default image filenames.
- CD Copy: Enable/disable options based on the source medium
- Automatically select newly inserted media as burning medium
* DCOP call directBurn() now returns a boolean value stating if the process could be started.
* New DCOP calls cddaRip(), videocdrip(), and videodvdrip() with media:/ url support.
* K3b can now handle media:/ urls from the command line to specify devices
* Better Lame settings dialog. Easier to use for the novice user and better defaults.
* Nicer Ogg Vorbis encoder settings dialog.
* K3b now shows the DVD Medium ID in the disk information view.
* K3b now displays a rough estimate on the remaining time for the current job.
* New automatic media size mode for the projects. This means K3b uses the size from an inserted medium
for the project maximum size.
* Make a suggestion for the filename when saving a project based on the Volume ID (data projects) or the
CD-Text title (Audio CD)
* The Audio encoder plugins are now able to provide (very simplistic) user feedback in case of an error.
* New settings "Swap byte order" and "Write Wave header" in the audio encoding plugin using external apps.
This makes way for the usage of such programs as mppenc to encode Musepack files. In fact, mppenc is set up
as a default along with flac if installed.
* New DCOP interface: K3bJobInterface which provides DCOP signals for the currently running job. It may,
for example, be used to provide information to a Karamba module.
* New KFile plugin for K3b projects. For now it only shows the type of the project (Data DVD or Audio CD or ...)
but may be extended to show arbitrary information.
* K3b now chooses default image names based on the project name or the volumeid/cdtext title in case of
CD/DVD copy.
* The K3b Project DCOP Interface now uses the QString type for url parameters instead of KURL.
* Save/load audio cd track sources in audio projects
* Display a beautified volume id. For example: THE_TRANSPORTER -> The Transporter
* Check if the image directory exists before starting to create a project image
* Possibility to hide the OSD temporarily for one process.
* Completely rewritten Video DVD ripping and transcoding support:
- Simple on-the-fly transcoding of Video DVD titles
- Interface similar to Audio CD ripping
- Preview images in the ripping window
- Automatic clipping
- Simple resizing with automatic aspect ratio handling
* File System presets for all data projects including all the advanced options.
* Completely rewritten data project verification
- K3b now compares the written image instead of the single files
- Verification of Video DVD projects
* Little GUI changes:
- Changed the dialog layout in the action dialogs.
- Simplified the layout of the burn dialogs for data projects (more advanced settings hidden)
- Improved theme support (transparent themes)
* Device buffer status display for DVD burning with growisofs >= 7.0
* Support for Audio CD ripping with libcdio instead of libcdparanoia
Changes:
Fixed saving/loading of the file view configuration.
Improved ffmpeg autoconf check.
More FreeBSD Compile fixes (thanks to Heiner Eichmann).
Fixed symbolic link handling in data projects (a bug introduced in 0.12.16).
Use UTF-8 encoding to store and load local CDDB entries.
Never use growisofs parameter -dvd-compat with DVD+RW media.
Fixed flac audio encoding for the audio project conversion feature.
* FreeBSD Compile fixes (thanks to Heiner Eichmann).
* NetBSD support (thanks to Mark Davies)
* Always force 44.1khz in the Lame MP3 encoder plugin.
* Fixed VideoDVD creation on rewritable media.
* Fixed Copy of Enhanced Audio CDs with CD-Text.
* Changed default boot cataloge name from "boot.cataloge"
to "boot.catalog"
* Fixed a crash when reusing the same DVD Iso Image writing dialog.
* Ignore case when comparing MD5 sums entered by the user.
* Make sure that filenames in a data project's folder are unique.
* Allow index statements bigger than 99 minutes in cue files.
* Properly set the length of SCSI commands (again this fixes some device
detection problems).
* Write more metadata tags in the default setup of the external encoder
plugin.
* Fixed on-the-fly Video DVD creation.
* Fixed data project verification in case filenames had to be shortened
due to Joliet limitations.
* Use -dvd-compat parameter to close DVDs in on-the-fly mode.
* Fixed libdvdcss handling (again), no crashes anymore.
* Fixed the "invalid url" bug.
* Use SG IO for scsi commands with newer linux kernels. This should fix
problems with scsi device detection.
* Warn about shortened filenames due to Joliet restrictions before
starting the burning process.
Changes in 0.12.12
* Fixed another bug in the iso options code which sometimes resulted in a
failed verification.
* Properly close the reading device when copying VideoDVDs. This bug
resulted in a blocked device.
* Fixed handling of filenames in libdvdcss backend (this fixes VideoDVD
copy).
Changes in 0.12.11
* Fixed selection in the audio CD ripping window.
* Fixed info block handling in WAVE audio file decoder: no more clicks at
the end.
* Introduced a hack which fixes the "Wav detected as Mpeg file" bug.
* Fixed Auto multisession mode for DVD+RW and DVD-RW in restricted
overwrite mode in case a previous session was imported.
* Fixed a crash with HAL >= 0.5 when exiting K3b.
* Allow copying of double layer DVDs with a size below 4.3 GB to single
layer media.
* Support for the ring buffer in growisofs 6.0.
* Use .iso extension for images instead of .img
* Properly remove the image file in case verification failed.
* Ignore mounting state of a medium when showing its contents.
* Fixed a bug in the iso options code which sometimes resulted in a
failed verification.
* Properly handle cue files withan image file name like
image.bin.cue + image.bin
* Write a proper Xing header when encoding VBR mp3 files.
From the pkgsrc-wip package by Martijn van Buul. Updated to 0.12.10
and finished off by me.
K3b is a CD and DVD burning application for Linux and BSD systems
optimized for KDE. It provides a comfortable user interface to perform
most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio
files or copying a CD. The actual burning in K3b is done by the command
line utilities cdrecord, cdrdao, and growisofs.
