From 3994e6269773ebfbd2aceca37c9fbde5fa23a6d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schmitt Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:12:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Did a little overhaul of general paragraphs, mentioned new option -waiti --- libburn/trunk/cdrskin/cdrskin.1 | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/libburn/trunk/cdrskin/cdrskin.1 b/libburn/trunk/cdrskin/cdrskin.1 index 0ed8b120..38d1a907 100644 --- a/libburn/trunk/cdrskin/cdrskin.1 +++ b/libburn/trunk/cdrskin/cdrskin.1 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) -.TH CDRSKIN 1 "September 17, 2007" +.TH CDRSKIN 1 "September 19, 2007" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: @@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ or on DVD-R[W] (in Incremental mode) or on DVD+R. .br Single session on DVD-RW or DVD-R (Disk-at-once) .br -or on overwriteable DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, +Single session or emulated multi-session +.br +on overwriteable DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, .br or on data file or block device. .br @@ -114,6 +116,19 @@ the archivers afio and star. Not suitable seems GNU tar. .PP .B Write mode selection: .br +In general there are two approaches for writing media: +.br +A permissive mode depicted by option +.B -tao +which needs no predicted track size and allows to make use of +eventual multi-session capabilities. +.br +A more restrictive mode +.B -sao +(alias -dao) which usually demands a predictable track size and is not +necessarily capable of multi-session. It may have advantages for some +readers resp. players of the recorded tracks. +.br If none of the options -dao, -tao or -sao is given then the program will try to choose a write mode which matches the defined recording job, the capabilities of the drive and the state of the present media. @@ -130,15 +145,11 @@ read-only. Closing is done automatically unless option .B -multi is given which keeps the media appendable. .br -There are two write modes, -.B -tao -and -.B -sao . -.br +Write mode -tao allows to use track source of unpredictable length (like stdin) and allows -to write further sessions to appendable media. -sao produces audio sessions -with seamless tracks but needs predicted track sizes and cannot append sessions -to media. +to write further sessions to appendable media. +-sao produces audio sessions with seamless tracks but needs predicted track +sizes and cannot append sessions to media. .br CD-RW media can be blanked to make them re-usable for another round of overwriting. Usually @@ -208,7 +219,8 @@ single continuous data area for blockwise random access. Option -audio is not allowed. Only one track is allowed. Option -multi cannot mark a recognizeable end of overwriteable media. Therefore -multi is banned unless ISO-9660 images shall be expandable by help -of option --grow_overwriteable_iso. +of option +.B --grow_overwriteable_iso . Without this option or without an ISO-9660 filesystem image present on media, -toc does not return information about the media content and media get treated as blank regardless wether they hold data or not. @@ -667,6 +679,23 @@ some extra lines to be put out with info retrieval options. Level 2 additionally reports about option settings derived from arguments or startup files. Level 3 is for debugging and useful mainly in conjunction with somebody who had a look into the program sourcecode. +.TP +.BI \-waiti +Wait until input data is available at stdin or EOF occurs at stdin. +Only then begin to access any drives. +.br +One should use this if cdrskin is working at the end of a pipe where the +feeder process reads from the drive before it starts writing its output into +cdrskin. Example: +.br +mkisofs ... -C 0,12800 -M /dev/sr0 | \\ +.br +cdrskin dev=/dev/sr0 ... -waiti - +.br +This option works even if stdin is not among the track sources. If no process +is piping in, then the Enter key of your terminal will act as trigger for +cdrskin. Note that this input line will not be consumed by cdrskin if stdin +is not among the track sources. It will end up as shell command, usually. .PP Alphabetical list of options which are genuine to cdrskin and intended for normal use: @@ -763,7 +792,9 @@ Enable emulation of multi-session writing on overwriteable media which contain an ISO-9660 filesystem. This emulation is learned from growisofs -M but adapted to the usage model of .br -.B cdrskin -msinfo ; mkisofs -C -M | cdrskin [-multi] - +.B cdrskin -msinfo +.br +.B mkisofs -C -M | cdrskin -waiti [-multi] - .br --grow_overwriteable_iso does not hamper the use of true multi-session media. I.e. it is possible to use the same cdrskin options with both kinds of media @@ -788,9 +819,11 @@ eventual ISO-9660 image by altering the first few bytes of block 16 on overwriteable media. Option -multi is tolerated in order not to hamper true multi-session media. .br -Note: The equivalent of growisofs -Z is +An equivalent of growisofs -Z for overwriteable media is: .br -.B mkisofs | cdrskin --grow_overwriteable_iso blank=fast [-multi] +.B mkisofs | cdrskin --grow_overwriteable_iso blank=fast [-multi] - +.br +With multi-session DVD, blank=fast will act like dvd+rw-format -blank=full . .br growisofs -dvd-compat is roughly equivalent to cdrskin without option -multi. .TP