Comparison of disc authoring software

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

Contents

Application

General information

Basic general information about the application.

Application Creator Cost (USD) Software license
Ashampoo Burning Studio Ashampoo Software  ? Shareware (Trial Available)
Alcohol 120% Alcohol Soft $38.00 Shareware (30-day trial)
CDBurnerXP Stefan Haglund, Fredrik Haglund Free Proprietary [1]
cdrtools Joerg Schilling Free GPL, CDDL
DeepBurner Astonsoft Free Proprietary
ImgBurn LIGHTNING UK! Free Proprietary [2]
InfraRecorder Christian Kindahl Free GPL
K3b Sebastian Trüg, Christian Kvasny Free GPL
Nero Burning ROM Ahead Software $99.00 Shareware (Trial Available)
PowerISO PowerISO Computing, Inc. $29.95 Shareware (Trial Available[1])
UltraISO EZB Systems $29.00 Shareware (Trial Available)
X-CD-Roast T. Niederreiter Free GPL
Application Creator Cost (USD) Software license

Operating system support

Please note that the list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common operating systems.

Application Microsoft Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix
Alcohol 120% Yes No No No No
BashBurn No Yes Yes Yes Yes
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
Nero Burning ROM Yes No Yes No No
PowerISO Yes No Partial 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.
Please note that the list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common types in use (ie. 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
Alcohol 120% Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
BashBurn 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 ?
InfraRecorder Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
K3b Yes Yes Yes No No No No
Nero Burning ROM Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
PowerISO Yes Yes Yes ? ? No No
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
Alcohol 120% Yes Yes No No No No No No
BashBurn Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No
CDBurnerXP Yes Yes No No No No Yes No
cdrtools Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No
ImgBurn Yes Yes No No No No Yes No
InfraRecorder Yes Yes ? ? ? ? Yes ?
K3b Yes Yes Yes ? No No No No
Nero Burning ROM Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes
PowerISO Yes ? No No No No No No
UltraISO Yes Yes ? ? ? ? Yes ?
X-CD-Roast Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No 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
Alcohol 120% Yes No No Yes Yes No
BashBurn Yes ? Yes Yes No ?
CDBurnerXP Partial[2] No No Yes Partial[2] 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
Nero Burning ROM Yes No Partial Yes Yes Yes
PowerISO Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ?
UltraISO 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 Books.

Application Red Yellow Orange White Blue Beige Green Purple Scarlet
Alcohol 120% No Yes Yes No No No No No No
BashBurn Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ?
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[3] ? ? Yes No ?
InfraRecorder ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ?
K3b Yes ? Yes Yes Yes No Yes No ?
Nero Burning ROM Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No
PowerISO ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ?
UltraISO Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ?
X-CD-Roast Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No
Application Red (CDDA) Yellow (CD-ROM) Orange (CD-R) White (VCD) Blue (ECD) 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
Alcohol 120% No Yes No
BashBurn No No Yes
CDBurnerXP No Yes No
cdrtools Yes No No
DeepBurner No Yes No
ImgBurn No Yes No
InfraRecorder No Yes No
K3b Yes Yes No
Nero Burning ROM No Yes No
PowerISO No Yes No
UltraISO No Yes No
X-CD-Roast No Yes No
Application Command line interface Graphical user interface Text user interface

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Free version displays a nag screen and limits disk image files to 300MB
  2. ^ a b Unsupported format can be converted to a supported one.
  3. ^ http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=3010