Free Burner

So you came looking for a way to burn CD’s and DVD’s for free, huh?
Well you came to the right place. I’ve put up a single page for every burner freeware that is worth mentioning.
You can find them in the navigation bar in the top of this page. Go ahead, check the review out and download them.
A video often can explain more than a thousand words on a screen. So I’ve also added some video tutorials to with the reviews.

In case you are still reading, I figure that you might be interested in some in depth info about the burning process. If so, read on.. if not, just go straight to the freeware pages.

Burning

To burn an optical disc, one usually first creates an optical disc image with a full file system designed for the optical disc, and then burns the image to the disc. The disc image is a single file, built and stored on the hard drive, which contains the entire information to be contained on the disc.
Many optical disc authoring software applications create the disc image and burn in one bundled operation, so that end-users often do not know the distinction. However, a useful motivation for learning this distinction is that creating the disc image is an “expensive” (time-consuming) process. Most disc writing applications will silently delete this image from the “temporary directory” in which it was built unless users instruct the disc burning application to preserve the image, which can then be used for creating further copies of the same image without the need to rebuild the image each time.
There are also packet-writing applications that do not require writing the entire disc at once, but allow writing parts at a time, allowing the disc to be used in the same way as rewritable media such as a floppy disk.
There exist many optical disc authoring technologies for optimizing the authoring process and preventing errors. Discs writeable only once whose burn failed are colloquially termed coasters.
Some operating systems are aware of disc images as a filesystem type, and can mount these images so that they appear as actual mounted discs. This feature can be useful for testing a disc image after authoring but before writing to the disc media.