K3b Version 0.11

Thanx for downloading K3b - The CD Kreator

These are the features so far:
 - the most userfriendly interface ever ;-)
   - themable (for now with Ayo's original theme and a crystal theme from Everaldo)

 - writing audio-cds
   - from mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, and wav files (on-the-fly or with images)
   - decoding plugin system
   - cd-text support
   - ID3-tag support
   - little gimmick: hide the first track (so that you have to search back from the beginning of the cd to find it)
   - volume level normalization (only when writing with an image)

 - writing ISO-cds
   - Joliet/Rockridge support
   - Udf filestructures (no pure Udf so far)
   - create image/write image
   - writing on-the-fly
   - creating of file-tree via drag'n'drop (as easy as it could be)
   - removing files and directories from data tree
   - moving files within the project
   - adding new empty directories to data tree
   - renaming of files (manually or automatically for mp3-files) (for joliet and rockrigde)
   - support for most of the mkisofs-options (I don't think anyone will ever use them! ;-))
   - multisession support (including importing old sessions and overwriting files from old sessions)
   - El Torito bootable cd support

 - writing Video CDs
   - VCD 1.1, 2.0, SVCD
   - CD-i support (Version 4)
   
 - writing mixed-mode cds
   - CD-Extra (CD-Plus, Enhanced Audio CD) support

 - writing eMovix cds
   
 - writing data DVDs (support for DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W) with the dvd+rw-tools)

 - formatting DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs

 - writing existing iso-images and cue/bin images to cd

 - cd copy (data, audio, mixed mode)

 - cd cloning with cdrecord >=2.01a17

 - blanking of cdrws

 - cd ripping to wav, mp3, ogg-vorbis, flac, or whatever format needed
   - encoding plugin system
   - cddb support
   - sophisticated pattern system to automatically organize the ripped tracks
   - m3u playlist creation
   - CD-TEXT support

 - dvd ripping with the transcode tools

 - DivX/XviD encoding

 - K3b checks if the user inserted an empty disk

 - Retrieving cd info and toc

 - Support for ATAPI drives without SCSI-emulation
   writing in in alpha-state when supported by the kernel and cdrecord
   full support for audio-ripping and dvd-ripping

 - integrated full featured audio player


What you need to run K3b:
 - since K3b is a CD writing program a cd writer would be a good thing to have ;-)
 - the QT3 and KDE3 (at least kdelibs and kdemultimedia) libraries from the good guys
 - the cdparanoia library for cd ripping from Monty
 - the cdrtools (cdrecord, mkisofs) from Joerg Schilling
 - cdrdao, the other linux cd writing program from Andreas Mueller
 - optional the transcode tools for DVD ripping and DivX/XviD encoding from Thomas Oestreich
 - optional vcdimager >= 0.7 for creating video cds
 - optional libmad for mp3 decoding
 - optional ogg-vorbis libraries for encoding and decoding
 - optional the FLAC++ libraries for flac-decoding
 - optional the eMovix package
 
See INSTALL for further information


Please report bugs (with k3b output!) and tell me what you like/dislike
about the user-interface!

Have fun
Sebastian Trueg (trueg@k3b.org)

