Comparison of disc authoring software

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This comparison of disc authoring software compares different optical disc authoring software.

## Contents

* 1 Application
* 1.1 General information
* 1.2 Operating system support
* 1.3 Optical media support
* 1.4 Filesystem support
* 1.5 Disk image format support
* 1.6 Standards support
* 1.7 User interface
* 2 See also
* 3 Notes

## Application

### General information

Basic general information about the application.

Application  | Creator  | Software license

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Ashampoo Burning Studio | Ashampoo Software  | Freemium
Alcohol 120% | Alcohol Soft  | Shareware
CDBurnerXP | Stefan Haglund, Fredrik Haglund  | Freeware [1]
cdrtools | Jörg Schilling  | Open-source (CDDL parts are GPL)
DeepBurner | Astonsoft  | Freemium
ImgBurn | LIGHTNING UK!  | Freeware [2]
InfraRecorder | Christian Kindahl  | Open-source (GPL)
K3b | Sebastian Trüg, Christian Kvasny  | Open-source (GPL)
Libburnia | Libburnia team  | Open-source (GPL)
Nero Burning ROM | Ahead Software  | Shareware
UltraISO | EZB Systems  | Shareware
X-CD-Roast | T. Niederreiter  | Open-source (GPL)
Application  | Creator  | Software license

### Operating system support

The list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common operating systems.

Application  | Microsoft Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD  | Unix

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Alcohol 120% | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
CDBurnerXP | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
cdrtools | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
DeepBurner | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
ImgBurn | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
InfraRecorder | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
K3b | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No
Libburnia | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Solaris
Nero Burning ROM | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No
UltraISO | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
X-CD-Roast | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Application  | Microsoft Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD  | Unix

### Optical media support

Which single-sided optical media types the application supports. The list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common types in use (i.e. not the now defunct HD DVD-R & UDO)

Application  | CD-R/W | DVD-R/RW/RAM | DVD+R/RW  | DVD+R/RW DL  | DVD-R/RW DL  | BD-R/RE | BD-R/RE DL

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Alcohol 120% | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
CDBurnerXP | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
cdrtools | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
DeepBurner | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | No  | No
ImgBurn | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
InfraRecorder | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
K3b | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Libburnia | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Nero Burning ROM | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
UltraISO | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
X-CD-Roast | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | No  | No
Application  | CD-R/W 737MB=702MiB | DVD-R/RW/RAM 4.707GB=4.384GiB | DVD+R/RW 4.700GB=4.378GiB  | DVD+R/RW DL 8.548GB=7.961GiB  | DVD-R/RW DL 8.544GB=7.957GiB  | BD-R/RE 25GB=23.31GiB | BD-R/RE DL 50GB=46.61GiB

### Filesystem support

Which filesystems the application supports.

Application  | ISO 9660 | Joliet | Rock Ridge | Amiga rock ridge | El Torito | Apple ISO9660  | UDF | MRW

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Alcohol 120% | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
CDBurnerXP | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
cdrtools | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
ImgBurn | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No
InfraRecorder | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?
K3b | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No
Libburnia | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
Nero Burning ROM | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
UltraISO | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?
X-CD-Roast | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No
Application  | ISO 9660 | Joliet | Rock Ridge | Amiga rockridge | El Torito | Apple ISO9660  | UDF | MRW

### Disk image format support

Information which Disk image formats an application supports.

Application  | bin/cue | Apple disk image  | img | ISO image | Nero CD image | Audio file/cue

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Alcohol 120% | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No
CDBurnerXP | Partial[1] | No  | No  | Yes  | Partial[1] | Yes
cdrtools | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | No  | Yes
DeepBurner | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
ImgBurn | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
InfraRecorder | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?
K3b | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Libburnia | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes
Nero Burning ROM | Yes  | No  | Partial  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
UltraISO | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
X-CD-Roast | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
Application  | bin/cue | Apple disk image  | img | ISO image | Nero CD image | Audio file/cue

### Standards support

Support for Rainbow book standards:

* Red book: CD-DA
* Yellow book: CD-ROM
* Orange book: CD-R and CD-RW
* White book: VCD and SVCD
* Blue book: E-CD
* Beige book: PCD
* Green book: CD-i discs
* Purple book: DDCD
* Scarlet book: SACD

Application  | Red (CD-DA)  | Yellow (CD-ROM)  | Orange (CD-R/CD-RW)  | White (VCD/SVCD)  | Blue (E-CD)  | Beige (PCD)  | Green (CD-I)  | Purple (DDCD)  | Scarlet (SACD)

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Alcohol 120% | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
CDBurnerXP | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
cdrtools | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?
DeepBurner | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
ImgBurn | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No[2] | ?  | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?
InfraRecorder | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
K3b | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | ?
Libburnia | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Nero Burning ROM | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
UltraISO | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
X-CD-Roast | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Application  | Red (CD-DA)  | Yellow (CD-ROM)  | Orange (CD-R/CD-RW)  | White (VCD/SVCD)  | Blue (E-CD)  | Beige (PCD)  | Green (CD-I)  | Purple (DDCD)  | Scarlet (SACD)

### User interface

Information which User interfaces an application supports.

Application  | Command line interface  | Graphical user interface | Text user interface

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Alcohol 120% | No  | Yes  | No
CDBurnerXP | Yes  | Yes  | No
cdrtools | Yes  | No  | No
DeepBurner | No  | Yes  | No
ImgBurn | No  | Yes  | No
InfraRecorder | No  | Yes  | No
K3b | Yes  | Yes  | No
Libburnia | Yes  | No  | No
Nero Burning ROM | No  | Yes  | No
UltraISO | Yes  | Yes  | No
X-CD-Roast | No  | Yes  | No
Application  | Command line interface  | Graphical user interface | Text user interface

## See also

* Optical disc authoring software
* List of optical disc authoring software
* Comparison of disc image software

## Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Unsupported format can be converted to a supported one.
2. ↑ "Creating SVCD or VCD". http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=3010.

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