Notes: 1. The FreeBSD k3b port supports SCSI drives only. If you have IDE CD or DVD drives, use them through the cam system. See Chapter 12.5.9 of the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html#ATAPICAM) 2. Your CD and DVD drives must have a mount point in /etc/fstab. They have to be accessed through their atapicam device. I.e. the drives have to be adressed by e.g. /dev/cd0c instead of /dev/acd0c. 3. k3b has to be started from a root console, which is not recommended. Alternatively do all of the following: 3a. set the suid flag on cdrecord and cdrdao. The 'Notes' the chapter of 'man cdrecord' discusses this. 3b. - For every user who should be able to use k3b and for every CD or DVD device add a directory in the users home directory. These directories must be owned by the corresponding user. For each such directory add a line in /ect/fstab (see remark 2), like: /dev/cd0c /usr/home/XXX/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto,nodev,nosuid 0 0 Furthermore allow user mounts as described in topic 9.22 of the FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT - or just give mount and umount the suid flag, which is a security leak. 3c. - Every user who should be able to use k3b must have read and write access to all pass through devices connected with CD and DVD drives and to the /dev/xpt0 device. Run 'camcontrol devlist' to identify those devices (seek string 'passX' at the end of each line and modify the rights of /dev/passX). Note, that this is a security leak as well but that there is no alternative! 4. Create a directory on a partition, which has enough disk space to hold a CDs or DVDs content (usually below /usr). Enter this directory in Settings-> Configure K3b...->Misc. 5. You should set the cdrdao driver manually. Otherwise the disk info might fail or lock a while. To do so choose Settings->Configure K3b...->Devices. Below the CD recorder click on the string "auto" behind "Cdrdao driver:" For most of the recent drives "generic-mmc" or "generic-mmc-raw" should work. See http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html. 6. To burn video CDs install the port multimedia/vcdimager. 7. To rip DVDs additionally install the ports multimedia/transcode, multimedia/libdvdread and multimedia/xvid. Note that k3b does NOT work with transcode 0.6.12. 0.6.10 is the last known working version. The ripping process itself is described in http://k3b.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/index.pl/videoencoding. 8. To burn bootable video CDs, install the port multimedia/emovix. 9. To burn DVDs, install the port sysutils/dvd+rw-tools. 10. To normalize the volumes of audio cds, install the port audio/normalize. 11. To rip into more audio formats, install the port audio/sox. UPGRADERS FROM 0.11.6 OR BELOW SHOULD NOTE THE CHANGED TOPIC 3C!!! To read this instructions again, type 'make showinfo' in the k3b port directory