Nero Burning ROM
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Nero Burning ROM is a popular CD/DVD authoring program for Microsoft Windows and Linux by Nero AG, formerly Ahead Software. Nero Express is commonly bundled as an OEM application with CD and DVD burners.
The program's name is intended to be a play on words. Recording CDs and DVDs is often known as "burning", and the infamous Roman Emperor Nero is said to have played his fiddle as Rome burned. This pun is more obvious in the original German as the German name for Rome is Rom (a literal English translation would be Nero Burning Rome).
Since version 6, Nero has been bundled with many other sub-applications such as Nero Wave Editor (for editing audio files), Nero ImageDrive (for mounting virtual CDs), Nero BackItUp (for backup of filesystems or whole disks) and Nero Recode (for backup of unencrypted DVDs and MPEG-4 conversions). Since version 7, Nero Vision (DVD authoring tool) is bundled in the Premium package.
Nero works with a number of CD-image formats, including the ISO 9660 standard and its proprietary NRG file format.
A Linux port of the application (NeroLINUX) was announced as a free "upgrade" from the Microsoft Windows version in March 2005. The application replicates most features of the Windows version, and uses the [[GTK+]] graphical toolkit.
Nero software is available in multiple variations. The most common are the OEM suites, which are bundled with most CD and DVD recorders. Nero also sells a full-featured versions, such as Premium available for download as trialware and Ultra a retail-box package with all programs, functions and plugins included.
Early versions of Nero version 6 would only burn data DVDs using the CD filing system (actually an invalid format as DVDs are required to use UDF), though DVD drives seemed to have no difficulty reading single-layer disks, but the compatibility of dual-layer disks was much more patchy.
Version 6.6.0.13 of Nero Burning ROM introduced support for LightScribe and Blu-Ray Disc recording.
See also
- GEAR Video, a similar product
- Easy Media Creator, a similar product
- CDBurnerXP Pro, a freeware alternative
- Exact Audio Copy, a freeware alternative
- Alcohol 120%
- CloneCD
- CloneDVD
- Nero AG
- InCD
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