Libburnia

Libburnia is a project that develops a collection of libraries and command-line tools for burning CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray media.

Libburnia is the name of a project to develop various pieces of disk recording software.

• libisofs is the library to create or modify ISO 9660 disk images.
• libburn is the underlying programming library. It is used by xorriso, cdrskin and 3rd party disk recording applications can also use this library directly.
• libisoburn is an add-on to libburn and libisofs which coordinates both and also allows to grow ISO 9660 filesystem images on multi-session and overwriteable media.
• xorriso is a CLI application that creates, loads, manipulates and writes ISO 9660 filesystem images with Rock Ridge extensions. This package is part of the GNU Project.
• xorrisofs creates an ISO9660+Rock Ridge disc images from local files, optionally with a Joliet directory tree.
• xorrecord writes disc images to physical discs.
• cdrskin is the end-user application of libburnia. It is CLI-only and its syntax is mostly identical to cdrecord to act as a drop-in replacement for existing front-ends.

Xorriso stands for X/Open, Rock Ridge ISO and is the main command-line tool included with libburnia. It allows both generation and (to some extent) update of image files as well as burning images to the disk.

It provides a command-line interface for single operations as well as GNU Readline and Dialog-based interfaces.

• The underlying libburn library is used directly as sole recording back-end for Xfce’s graphical Xfburn application which is included in the default installation of Xubuntu since version 10.10.
• GNOME's default disk recording application, Brasero, can use libburn directly without relying on cdrecord compatibility of cdrskin.
• FlBurn is a FLTK application that uses libburn directly.
• cdrskin is similar to cdrecord and wodim, and can be used in place of the aforementioned tool in GUI front-ends such as K3b.

The first public release (libburn-0.2.2) was in September 2006.

The current stable version is 1.5.4, which was released on January 30, 2021.

• Blanking/formatting of CD-RW DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, BD
• Burning of data or audio tracks to CD, either in versatile Track-at-Once mode (TAO) or in Session-at-Once mode for seamless tracks.
• Multi-session on CD (follow-up sessions in TAO only) or on DVD-R[W] (in Incremental mode) or on DVD+R.
• Single session on DVD-RW or DVD-R (Disk-at-once) or on over-writable DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, BD-RE.
• Bus scan, burn-free, speed options, retrieving media info, padding, fifo.
• Works with SATA DVD drives.
• Write access to disk images.
• Use UNIX device path (/dev/hdX) on Linux
• You do not need to be superuser for its daily usage.

• cdrkit
• cdrtools
• dvd+rw-tools

• Official website
• Sourceforge website
• Man page