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# k3b-25.12.2

## Introduction to K3b

The K3b package contains a KDE Frameworks-based graphical interface to the Cdrtools and dvd+rw-tools CD/DVD manipulation tools. It also combines the capabilities of many other multimedia packages into one central interface to provide a simple-to-operate application that can be used to handle many of your CD/DVD recording and formatting requirements. It is used for creating audio, data, video and mixed-mode CDs as well as copying, ripping and burning CDs and DVDs.

Though k3b can be used to copy almost any DVD to similar medium, it does not provide a way to copy, or reproduce a dual-layer DVD onto a single-layer disk. Of course, there is not a program anywhere on any platform that can make an exact duplicate of a dual-layer DVD onto a single-layer disk, but there are programs on some platforms that can compress the data on a dual-layer DVD to fit on a single-layer DVD producing a duplicate, but compressed, image. If you need to copy the contents of a double-layer DVD to a single-layer disk, you may want to look at the RMLCopyDVD package.

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### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://download.kde.org/stable/release-service/25.12.2/src/k3b-25.12.2.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: cec60bb8f8127aebea1ccd6c2cec11a2

- Download size: 10 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 144 MB

- Estimated build time: 1.2 SBU (using parallelism=4)

### K3b Dependencies

#### Required

KDE Frameworks-6.23.0, libkcddb-25.12.2, libsamplerate-0.2.2, and shared-mime-info-2.4

The CD/DVD drive is detected at run time using UDisks-2.11.1, which must therefore be installed before running k3b.

#### Recommended

libburn-1.5.8, libdvdread-7.0.1, and taglib-2.2.1

There are programs from three packages that k3b will look for at runtime: Cdrtools-3.02a09 (required to burn CD-ROM media), dvd+rw-tools-7.1 (required to burn or format DVD media), and Cdrdao-1.2.6 (required to burn CD-ROM media in DAO (Disk At Once) mode). If you don't need the capabilities provided by any of the three packages, you don't have to install them. However, a warning message will be generated every time you run the k3b program if any of them are not installed.

#### Optional Runtime

FFmpeg-8.1

#### Optional

FLAC-1.5.0, LAME-3.100, libmad-0.15.1b, libsndfile-1.2.2, libvorbis-1.3.7, and Musepack (libmpcdec)

## Installation of K3b

Install K3b by running the following commands:

    mkdir build &&
    cd    build &&

    cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KF6_PREFIX \
          -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
          -D BUILD_TESTING=OFF                \
          -W no-dev ..                        &&
    make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the `root` user:

    make install

## Contents

Installed Programs: k3b
Installed Libraries: libk3bdevice.so, libk3blib.so, and numerous plugin modules for the installed dependencies
Installed Directories: $KF6_PREFIX/share/k3b and $KF6_PREFIX/share/doc/HTML/*/k3b

### Short Descriptions

k3b | is a graphical CD/DVD manipulation program

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