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Preferences

Burn is quite customizable.

General:
Recorder:
Change default recorder which will be used if available.

Remember last tab in main window:
Start Burn with the same tab (data, audio, video or image) as last time.

Remember last popup items:
Start Burn with the last selected popup items in the Data, Audio and Video tab.

Data:
Data Type:
Use this format at when opening Burn.

Calculate total size:
Burn can calculate total size the disk will be.

Audio:
Default format:
Use this format at when opening Burn.

Pregap:
The number of seconds between each song.

Audio bitrate:
The number of KB per second. The higher the larger the MP3 file gets.

Mode:
Mono or stereo. Mono: left and right are the same. Stereo: left and right are different.

Video:
Default format:
Use this format at when opening Burn.

DVD:

Allow to create mini-DVDs:
Mini-DVD's are DVD video burned on a CD. Most DVD players play them too.

Create a fully compatible DVD-video disk:
Due to a bug in Apples DiscBurning.framework, Burn doesn't create a standard DVD-video disk required for some players. Use this option to create a fully compatible disk (note: instead of burning the DVD folder it will create a image of the folder which will be burned resulting in using more disk space).

Force MPEG2 encoding:
With this option all files will be encoded to MPEG2, even when they allready are. Usefull for creating MPEG2 files of other quality.

Mux separate audio and video files:
Make MPEG2 streams from .m2v video and .ac3/mp2 sound files. In order for it to work the filenames need to be the same except for the extension.

Force remuxing MPEG2 external streams:
Some MPEG2 streams don't work with Burn. This option will remux all external MPEG2 files to compatible files.

DivX:
Allow MSMPEG4 on DivX disks:
Some DivX compatible DVD players can play MSMPEG4 too. So you can enable Burn to use those files.

Force DivX encoding:
With this option all files will be encoded to DivX, even when they allready are. Usefull for creating DivX files of other quality and/or size.

DVD and DivX settings:
You can customize some settings for encoding to DVD and DivX files. Like bitrate, audio codec, size and framerate.
The sound and video bitrate is expressed in kilobits per second (Kbps).

Enable logging:
Enables ffmpeg and other included binaries to log to the console. Use this only if you want to debug what is going wrong.

Use custom ffmpeg:
You can use a custom ffmpeg. For example to have a better optimized ffmpeg or if you have more codecs installed. Be sure that the copy of ffmpeg you use includes mp3 (lame).