#602149 brasero: It should be possible to directly burn bz2/gz/7z iso image

Package:
brasero
Source:
brasero
Description:
CD/DVD burning application for GNOME
Submitter:
Witold Baryluk
Date:
2010-11-02 01:21:05 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#602149#5
Date:
2010-11-02 01:16:27 UTC
From:
To:
Hi.

Iso images are often compressed using bzip2 or gzip2 (without tar).
Many times it do not compress well, but each byte is crucial when distributing
such big files,
so it is common to see compressed iso images.
(most linux distro do not do this, becuase packages are already compressed
well).

I.e. I wanted to burn dragonfly 2.8.2 and it is distributed as iso.bz2. Why I
need to extract iso from it,
if I could perform this on the fly.

It would be usefull to have direct bz2 (and possibly other formats) read
support in brasero.
(Only problem I see is size estimation of, but this can be easly calculated
from iso metadata right?)

Thanks.