Re: new module proposal: brasero

["Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>]

On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 19:27 +0100, Philippe Rouquier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We'd be interested in having brasero integrated into the GNOME
> desktop.

+1

Regarding n-c-b comparisons, there is at least one thing that brasero
gets right and that is missing in n-c-b: a nice bar showing amount of
used/free disc capacity.  In n-c-b my recurrent pattern when making a
backup of some files to DVD is 1. add some files, 2. press the "burn"
button to see how much space I have used, 3. if there is space left,
press the cancel file and goto 1, else press burn.

Brasero definitely deserves to be in the GNOME desktop IMHO.  Great
work!

> 
> Brasero is a standalone application to burn CDs and DVDs. We have
> tried to make brasero as easy to use and as simple as possible.
> Brasero has been developped for about 4 years now and has been
> actively maintained ever since. 
> 
> Brasero supports the basic operations:
> - CD/DVD creation (audio, data)
> - CD/DVD copy
> - CD/DVD blanking and formatting
> 
> One of the strengths of brasero is that it can use various backends
> through its plugin system and can easily be extended to support some
> more. Currently it supports growisofs, libburn, libisofs,
> cdrecord/mkisofs/readcd, wodim/genisoimage/readom, cdrdao.
> 
> The plugin system also allows for additional features:
> (on the fly) checksuming, use of remote files (FTP, samba, ...), audio
> normalization, video DVD copy.
> 
> 
> Other features includes:
> full multisession support
> preview of audio, video files and pictures
> initial support for video DVD creation
> audio track splitting
> medium cover editor
> projects
> 
> 
> Brasero and GNOME:
> - we tried to stick to GNOME HIG guidelines.
> - brasero has tried to integrate as tightly as possible with the rest
> of the desktop and in particular with nautilus
> - it is up to date as far as GNOME goals are concerned
> - it uses and has been using svn.gnome.org and bugzilla.gnome.org for
> quite some time now
> - it is well translated by GNOME translator teams (btw, thanks to all
> of you again)
> - a documentation is available
> 
> 
> It supports linux, OpenSolaris and freeBSD.
> 
> As far as we know, it is used as the default burning application on
> Ubuntu and OpenSuse; but I was told it was also considered to be
> chosen as the default application for OpenSolaris.
> Uptodate packages are also available for Fedora and Mandriva.
> 
> 
> Dependencies:
> - glib and gio
> - gtk+
> - gstreamer (for all audio and video operations)
> - libxml2
> - HAL
> - dbus
> 
> 
> Optional dependencies:
> - totem-pl-parser
> - beagle
> - dvdcss (for video DVD copy)
> - all burning backends (libburn, libisofs, growisofs, wodim, cdrecord,
> readcd, readom, mkisofs, genisoimage, ....)
> 
> 
> Short term:
> - get ready for GTK+ 3.0
> - support DVD-RAM and BDs
> - improvements to the video project parts
> - allow full multisession media edition (file removal, file
> renaming, ...) through libisofs
> 
> 
> Future plans:
> - audio on DVDs
> - allow to shrink video DVDs when copying
> - video DVD to video CD copy
> - backup and automatic file update on insertion
> - file spanning
> - creation of encrypted images
> 
> 
> Site:
> http://live.gnome.org/Brasero
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/brasero/
> 
> 
> All comments and suggestions would be of course appreciated. We are
> willing to do whatever needs to be done to improve brasero for it to
> be integrated.
> 
> NOTE: after the 0.8.3 release that should take place soon, we intend
> to branch it and use SVN trunk for the next development version. ATM
> trunk is the latest stable version.
> 
> Regards
> Philippe Rouquier 
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