legacy/trunk/cdrskin/README

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Installation instructions at about line 60. First the legal stuff:
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This all is under GPL.
(See GPL reference, our clarification and commitment at the end of this text)
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Based on and sub project of:
libburn.pykix.org
By Mario Danic <mario.danic@gmail.com> and Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net>
Copyright (C) 2006 Mario Danic, Thomas Schmitt

libburn.pykix.org is inspired by and in other components still containing
parts of
Libburn. By Derek Foreman <derek@signalmarketing.com> and
            Ben Jansens <xor@orodu.net>
Copyright (C) 2002-2006  Derek Foreman and Ben Jansens
See toplevel README for an overview of the current copyright situation in
libburn.pykix.org.

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My thanks to the above authors (except myself, of course) for making the
following possible.

cdrskin. By Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net>
Integrated sub project of libburn.pykix.org but also published via:
http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/cdrskin_eng.html
http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/cdrskin-0.2.3.tar.gz
Copyright (C) 2006 Thomas Schmitt

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On top of libburn there is implemented cdrskin 0.2.3, a limited cdrecord
compatibility wrapper which allows to use some libburn features from
the command line.
Interested users of cdrecord are invited to participate in the development
of cdrskin. Contact: scdbackup@gmx.net or libburn-hackers@pykix.org .
We will keep copyright narrow but will of course acknowledge valuable
contributions in a due way.


Important :
This software is provided as is. There is no warranty implied and no
protection against possible damages. You use this on your own risk.
Don't blame me or other authors of libburn if anything goes wrong.

I used it on my own risk with :
SuSE 7.2, kernel 2.4.4,  ide-scsi emulation, LITE-ON LTR48125S CD burner, 2002
SuSE 9.0, kernel 2.4.21, ide-scsi emulation, LG GSA-4082B CD/DVD burner, 2004
                                             NEC ND-4570A CD/DVD burner, 2006
RIP-14.4, kernel 2.6.14, no ide-scsi,        with all above burners

It fails to compile or run on SuSE 6.4 (kernel 2.2.14).
It does not find the IDE CD burner on SuSE 7.2 without ide-scsi.
Other people sucessfully tested cdrskin on several kernel 2.6 based x86 Linux
systems, including 64 bit systems. (Further reports are welcome.)


                   Compilation, First Glimpse, Installation

Obtain cdrskin-0.2.3.tar.gz , take it to a directory of your choice and do:

    tar xzf cdrskin-0.2.3.tar.gz
    cd cdrskin-0.2.3

Or obtain a libburn.pykix.org SVN snapshot,
go into the toplevel directory of the snapshot (e.g.  cd libburn_pykix ),
and execute the autotools script ./bootstrap . Use autools version >= 1.7 .

Within that toplevel directory of either cdrskin-0.2.3 or libburn then execute:

    ./configure
    make

(Note: there are next-level directories "libburn" and "cdrskin". Those
would be the wrong ones. Meant is the highest directory of tarball resp. 
SVN download. Among others containing files "AUTHORS", "configure", 
"Makefile.am", as well as directories "libburn" and "cdrskin".)

This will already produce a cdrskin binary. But it might be necessary to
install libburn in order to use this binary. Installation of libburn is
beyond the scope of cdrskin. For this, see included libburn docs.

In order to surely get a standalone binary, execute

    cdrskin/compile_cdrskin.sh

Version identification an help texts available afterwards:
    cdrskin/cdrskin -version
    cdrskin/cdrskin --help
    cdrskin/cdrskin -help

Install (eventually as superuser) cdrskin to a directory where it can be found:
If cdrskin was already installed by a previous version, or by "make install"
in the course of this installation, then find out where:
    which cdrskin 
Copy your standalone binary to exactly the address which you get as reply 

    cp cdrskin/cdrskin /usr/bin/cdrskin

Check the version timestamps of the globally installed binary
    cdrskin -version

It is not necessary for the standalone cdrskin binary to have libburn
installed, since it incorporates the necessary libburn parts at compile time.
It will not collide with an installed version of libburn either.
But libpthread must be installed on the system and glibc has to match. (See
below for a way to create a statically linked binary.)


                                    Usage

The user of cdrskin needs rw-permission for the CD burner device.
A list of rw-accessible drives can be obtained by

    cdrskin --devices

CD devices which offer no rw-permission are invisible to normal users.
The superuser should be able to see any usable drive and then set the
permissions as needed. If this hangs then there is a drive with
unexpected problems (locked, busy, broken, whatever). You might have to
guess the address of your (non-broken) burner by other means, then.
On Linux 2.4 this would be some /dev/sgN and on 2.6. some /dev/hdX.

The output of  cdrskin --devices  might look like

    0  dev='/dev/sg0'  rwrwr- :  '_NEC'  'DVD_RW ND-4570A'
    1  dev='/dev/sg1'  rwrw-- :  'HL-DT-ST'  'DVDRAM GSA-4082B'

So full and insecure enabling of both for everybody would look like

    chmod a+rw /dev/sg0 /dev/sg1

I strongly discourage to run cdrskin with setuid root or via sudo !
It is not checked for the necessary degree of hacker safety.


                                Usage examples 

Get an overview of cdrecord style addresses of available devices
    cdrskin -scanbus 
    cdrskin dev=ATA -scanbus 

Note: Adresses reported with dev=ATA are to be used with prefix "ATA:". You may
      well use device file addresses as reported with --devices. Examples:
        dev=0,1,0   dev=/dev/sg1  dev=ATA:1,0,0   dev=/dev/hdc
      See also "Drive Addressing".
Note: Address numbers have changed since cdrskin-0.2.2 in order to become
      compatible with cdrecord numbers. To get the old number scheme, use
      option  --old_pseudo_scsi_adr . See also "Pseudo-SCSI Adresses".
      Sorry for any inconvenience.


Obtain some info about the drive
    cdrskin dev=0,1,0 -checkdrive 

Obtain some info about the drive and the inserted media
    cdrskin dev=0,1,0 -atip 

Thoroughly blank a CD-RW
    cdrskin -v dev=0,1,0 blank=all -eject 

Blank CD-RW sufficiently for making it ready for overwrite
    cdrskin -v dev=0,1,0 blank=fast -eject 

Burn image file  my_image.iso  to CD
    cdrskin -v dev=0,1,0 speed=12 fs=8m -sao driveropts=burnfree padsize=300k \
            -eject  my_image.iso 

Burn a compressed afio archive to CD on-the-fly
    find . | afio -oZ - | cdrskin -v dev=0,1,0 fs=32m speed=8 -sao \
                                  driveropts=burnfree padsize=300k tsize=650m - 

Burn 6 audio tracks from files with different formats to CD.
Anything except .wav or .au files has to be converted into raw format first.
See below "Audio CD" for specifications.
    ogg123 -d raw -f track01.cd /path/to/track1.ogg
    oggdec -R -o track02.cd /path/to/track2.ogg
    lame --decode -t /path/to/track3.mp3 track03.cd   
    madplay -o raw:track04.cd /path/to/track4.mp3
    mppdec --raw-le /path/to/track5.mpc track05.cd

    cdrskin dev=0,1,0 blank=fast -eject speed=48 \
           -audio -swab track0[1-5].cd /path/to/track6.wav


           Usage example with  http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net

Address may be a cdrecord-style  "scsibus,target,lun"  as listed with
cdrskin -scanbus (and hopefully as listed with cdrecord -scanbus) :

    export SCDBACKUP_SCSI_ADR="0,1,0"

or a device file address as listed by --devices with an accessible drive :

    export SCDBACKUP_SCSI_ADR="/dev/sg1"

Set usage of cdrskin with appropriate options rather than cdrecord :

    export SCDBACKUP_CDRECORD="cdrskin -v -v tao_to_sao_tsize=650m"

Run a backup :

    scdbackup_home


                                Restrictions

The convenient burn mode TAO is not available with libburn yet.
Therefore it has to be defaulted to mode SAO which needs to know the track
size in advance. non-cdrecord option  tao_to_sao_tsize=650m  causes each CD
to get burned up to 650 MB regardless of the payload size.

No multi session yet ... Please report your wishes.


                           Inspiration and Standard

For the original meaning of cdrecord options see :
    man cdrecord 
    (http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/man/cdrecord-2.0.html)
Do not bother Joerg Schilling with any cdrskin problems.
(Be cursed if you install cdrskin as "cdrecord" without clearly forwarding
 this "don't bother Joerg" demand.)   
cdrskin does not contain any bytes copied from cdrecord's sources. Many bytes
have been copied from the message output of cdrecord runs, though. I am
thankful to Joerg Schilling for every single one of them.

Actually i, Thomas Schmitt, am a devoted user of cdrecord via my project
scdbackup which still runs a bit better with cdrecord than with cdrskin. TAO.
I have the hope that Joerg feels more flattered than annoyed by cdrskin.


                              Drive Addressing

Drives get addressed either via their cdrecord-style addresses as listed
with option -scanbus (see below "Pseudo-SCSI Adresses") or via the paths
of device files.
Not only device files listed by --devices may be used but also device files
which via their major,minor numbers point to the same device driver as
a listed device file. 

Helpful with Linux kernel 2.4 is a special SCSI feature:
It is possible to address a scsi(-emulated) drive via associated device files
which are not listed by option --devices but point to the same SCSI addresses
as listed device files. This addressing via e.g. /dev/sr0 or /dev/scd1 is
compatible with generic read programs like dd and with write program growisofs.

                             Pseudo-SCSI Adresses

cdrecord and cdrskin share the syntax of SCSI addresses but not necessarily
the meaning of the components. A cdrecord-style address for cdrskin
  [prefix:]scsibus,target,lun
can be interpreted in two different modes.

Standard mode tries to be compatible to original cdrecord. This should be true
with (emulated) SCSI where the /dev/sgN with is looked up with matching
scsibus,target,lun as given by the operating system.
With dev=ATA: or dev=ATAPI: the translation to /dev/hdX is purely literal
but matches the cdrecord addresses on all systems tested so far:
  X = 'a' + 2 * scsibus + target
where target only may have the values 0 or 1.

In this mode, option -scanbus will list only SCSI devices unless option
dev=ATA or dev=ATAPI are given, which will suppress SCSI devices and only
show IDE drives (i.e. /dev/hdX without ide-scsi emulation).


In mode  --old_pseudo_scsi_adr  there is a scsibus,target,lun representation
which has nothing to do with SCSI and thus is not compatible to cdrecord.
Each number triple corresponds either to a device file address or to a
libburn drive number.
Component "scsibus" indicates the translation method. Defined busses are:
  0  target is the libburn drivenumber as listed with --devices
  1  associated to device file /dev/sgN , target chooses N
  2  associated to device file /dev/hdX , target 0='a', 1='b' ..., 25='z' 

So "1,1,0" is /dev/sg1, "2,3,0" is /dev/hdd, "0,2,0" is libburn drive #2 at
some unspecified device file. 
This scheme shall help to keep cdrecord-style addresses stable and exchangeable
between users without excluding drives with unexpected device addresses.
The numbering on bus 0 is prone to arbitrary changes caused by changes in
drive accessability.
Further busses may emerge as libburn evolves. "prefix" and "lun" may get
a meaning. To stay upward compatible, use addresses as printed by -scanbus.

                  User Defined Device Address Translation

Some programs or users have their own ideas about the address of their burner.
K3b 0.10 for example derives cdrecord addresses by own examination of the
devices and not by calling cdrecord -scanbus.
Standard mode will hopefully be fully compatible with their ideas.

Old frontends which do not know dev=ATA or dev=ATAPI and which do ask their
"cdrecord" via -scanbus may be well served with option  --old_pseudo_scsi_adr .

To direct any remaining stubborn callers to the appropriate drives, cdrskin
allows to define device address aliases. Like
  cdrskin dev_translation=+1,0,0+/dev/sg1 \
          dev_translation=+ATA:1,0,0+/dev/sg1 \
          dev_translation=-"cd+dvd"-0,1,0 \
          ...
Any of the addresses dev=1,0,0, dev=ATA:1,0,0, dev=cd+dvd will be mapped to
/dev/sg1 resp. to 0,1,0.
The first character after "dev_translation=" defines the character which
separates the two parts of the translation pair. (Above: "+" and "-".)

In K3b 0.10 it is possible to employ alternative writer programs by setting
their full path (e.g. /usr/bin/cdrskin) in menu
  Settings:Configure K3b...:Programs:Search Path 
and to make them default in menu
  Settings:Configure K3b...:Programs:Programs:
A suitable setting for "cdrecord" in menu 
  Settings:Configure K3b...:Programs:User Parameters
would then probably be
  -v dev_translation=+1,0,0+/dev/sg1
You will learn from button "Show Debugging Output" after a failed burn run
what cdrecord command was used with what address "dev=...". This address "..."
will be the right one to replace "1,0,0" in above example.


                                 Startup Files

If not --no_rc is the first argument then cdrskin attempts on startup to read
arguments from the following three files:
  /etc/defaults/cdrskin
  /etc/opt/cdrskin/rc
  $HOME/.cdrskinrc
The files are read in the sequence given above.
Each readable line is treated as one single argument. No extra blanks.
A first character '#' marks a comment, empty lines are ignored.

Example content of a startup file:
# This is the default device
dev=0,1,0
# To accomodate to eventual remnant cdrskin-0.2.2 addresses
dev_translation=+1,0,0+0,1,0

# Some more options
--fifo_start_empty
fs=16m


                                  Audio CD

Lorenzo Taylor enabled option -audio in cdrskin (thanks !) and reports neat
results with audio data files which are :
  headerless PCM (i.e. uncompressed)
  44100 Hz sampling rate 
  16 bits per sample
  stereo (2 channels)
  little-endian byte order with option -swab, or big-endian without -swab

Files with name extension .wav get examined wether they are in Microsoft WAVE
format with above parameters and eventually get extracted by cdrskin itself.
In the same way files with name extension .au get examined wether they are
in SUN's audio format. For both formats, track format -audio and eventual
endianness option -swab are enabled automatically.

Any other formats are to be converted to format .wav with above parameters
or to be extracted as raw CD track data by commands like those given above
under "Usage examples". Those raw files need option -audio and in most cases 
option -swab to mark them as little-endian/Intel/LSB-first 16-bit data.
Incorrect endianness setting results in random noise on CD.

I myself am not into audio. So libburn-hackers@pykix.org might be the
best address for suggestions, requests and bug reports.


                        Special compilation variations

You may get a (super fat) statically linked binary by :
    cdrskin/compile_cdrskin.sh -static
if your system supports static linking, at all. This will not help with kernels
which do not properly support the necessary low-level interfaces chosen by
your compile-time libraries.

A size reduced but fully functional binary may be produced by 
    cdrskin/compile_cdrskin.sh -do_strip

An extra lean binary with reduced capabilities is created by
    cdrskin/compile_cdrskin.sh -do_diet -do_strip
It will not read startup files, will abort on option  dev_translation= ,
will not have a fifo buffer, and will not be able to put out help texts or
debugging messages.

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It adopts the following commitment by the toplevel copyright holders:
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We, the copyright holders, agree on the interpretation that
dynamical linking of our libraries constitutes "use of" and
not "derivation from" our work in the sense of GPL, provided
those libraries are compiled from our unaltered code.

Thus you may link our libraries dynamically with applications
which are not under GPL. You may distribute our libraries and
application tools in binary form, if you fulfill the usual
condition of GPL to offer a copy of the source code -altered
or unaltered- under GPL.

We ask you politely to use our work in open source spirit
and with the due reference to the entire open source community.

If there should really arise the case where above clarification
does not suffice to fulfill a clear and neat request in open source
spirit that would otherwise be declined for mere formal reasons,
only in that case we will duely consider to issue a special license
covering only that special case.
It is the open source idea of responsible freedom which will be
decisive and you will have to prove that you exhausted all own
means to qualify for GPL.

For now we are firmly committed to maintain one single license: GPL.

signed for cdrskin: Thomas Schmitt