Comparison of optical disc authoring software
This comparison of disc authoring software compares different optical disc [authoring software].
Application
General information
Basic general information about the application.| Application | Creator | Software license |
| Ashampoo Burning Studio | Ashampoo Software | |
| Alcohol 120% | Alcohol Soft | |
| CDBurnerXP | Stefan Haglund, Fredrik Haglund | |
| cdrtools | Jörg Schilling | |
| DeepBurner | Astonsoft | |
| ImgBurn | LIGHTNING UK! | |
| InfraRecorder | Christian Kindahl | |
| K3b | Sebastian Trüg, Christian Kvasny | |
| Libburnia | Libburnia team | |
| Nero Burning ROM | Ahead Software | |
| UltraISO | EZB Systems | |
| X-CD-Roast | T. Niederreiter | |
| Application | Creator | Software license |
Operating system support
The list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common operating systems.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 useFilesystem support
Which filesystems the application supports.Disk image format support
Information which Disk image formats an application supports.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 | Yellow | Orange | White | Blue | Beige | Green | Purple | Scarlet |
| Alcohol 120% | |||||||||
| CDBurnerXP | |||||||||
| cdrtools | |||||||||
| DeepBurner | |||||||||
| ImgBurn | |||||||||
| InfraRecorder | |||||||||
| K3b | |||||||||
| Libburnia | |||||||||
| Nero Burning ROM | |||||||||
| UltraISO | |||||||||
| X-CD-Roast | |||||||||
| Application | Red | Yellow | Orange | White | Blue | Beige | Green | Purple | Scarlet |