NeroLINUX Review

Audio and Video Disc Creation

Audio Disc Creation:

Now let’s take a look at Audio CD creation with NeroLINUX.

Providing you have some audio files (.WAV) on your system or an audio CD in your optical drive. Creating audio CD’s is fairly straightforward. If however you have a collection of MP3 files you wish to include in your Audio CD compilation, some external software will be required to convert the files from MP3 to .WAV.

For this test 15 audio files were copied from the ‘copy disc” CD we created earlier in the review and placed on our LINEX partition.

These files were simply dragged and dropped into the compilation window in NeroLINUX.

Once the files are in this window they can be moved around and reordered in any way you wish. On the right of the track display is file size and the song duration. You can also double click a file and listen to the track before burning to a CDR.

Once you’re happy with the track layout, all that is required to start the burn process is a single click on the ‘burn icon” an MMore blank CDR was inserted for this task and 16X burn speed selected as this was an audio CD, and it is never wise to burn those to fast.

In just over 4 minutes the task completed, again with complete success, the resulting disc playing both on my PC and my set top CD player without any jumping or skipping or any other nasty issues.

The audio creation features of NeroLINUX are quite limited; the feature will burn pre-created audio files without any problems. But you will not be able to edit your files from within the NeroLINUX application; this will have to be done from a third party application.

Video Disc Creation:

Now it’s time to create a DVD Video disc.

Although this feature is not directly supported with NeroLINUX, this did not stop me from trying.

The main compilation window was opened and two folders were created (AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS.) These are the standard two folders on a DVD-Video compliant disc. After creating these two folders, a pre-authored DVD compliant video file set was drag and dropped into the VIDEO_TS folder.

8X burn speed was selected, this is the fastest a DVD+R Double Layer media can be burned at the moment. Now all that was left to do was to click on the burn icon to set the burn in progress. (See screenshot below)

Around 18 minutes later the task was completed. The resulting disc was then checked on both my PC and set top player. The PC played the disc without problems, unfortunately my set top player reported the disc was the wrong format and refused to play it.

For fully compatible DVD-Video burning, some specific burn options are required which are not present in NeroLINUX version 2.0.0.1. However, this feature will be supported soon, possibly as soon as the next release of NeroLINUX