More "feature-rich" burning app for Ubuntu Studio-Hardy. (Update)

[Darrin Goodman]

> You need to have an DVD-ISO made by a capable application. QDVD-author
> can do this and others too but I would encourage the use of Cinelerra
> for this to make the needed VOB-files. Afterwards one my use some
> DVD-Authoring tool like the above mentioned QDVD-author to make an ISO
> that can be burned to DVD by Brasero, K3B or whatever etc etc.
>

Surely I must be missing something here.  K3B will burn DVD ISO's.
It's what I use when I download a Linux distro and burn to DVD as an
ISO image.  Is there something different about burning video as an
ISO?  I am assuming that the video-to-be-burned has already been
encoded and that the burning software is only burning the ISO, and not
performing any encoding duties.  Also, I stumbled across this
interesting blog entry a while back about ManDVD.  Apparently, you can
create menus, chapters, etc. with ManDVD, and then use your favorite
burning application to burn the video to CD/DVD (I have no experience
with using this tool).  Not sure if that helps anyone out or not.
http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2007/11/20/create-video-dvds-with-mandvd/

> "Look and feel" is *not* irrelevant.
> Try telling that to any marketing/design firm.

Unfortunately, you can't please everyone.  No matter what you choose
to package with the OS, there will be someone out there who will
prefer using some other tool for CD/DVD burning.  Isn't that one of
the many reasons why we use Linux though... we have almost unlimited
freedom to configure our machines just the way we like them and
add/remove whatever software that we wish.  Although I enjoy using
Gnome (and Gnome apps) over KDE (and KDE apps), I do prefer using K3B
over any other burning application that I have seen thus far.

Regarding K3B vs. Gnomebaker vs. something else:
Until just now, I had never before used Gnomebaker.  I have used
Nautilus occasionally in the past to burn CD's, but I primarily use
K3B for all of my burning needs.  I just installed Gnomebaker and can
say that in my unbiased opinion, K3B is immediately more intuitive to
me.  The initial K3B menu gives more options in terms of
"what-do-you-wish-to-do?" than what I see under Gnomebaker, and I
don't see anything about ISO burning capabilities in Gnomebaker
(whereas K3B does burn ISO images).  Just my $.02.

- Darrin