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/**
@author Dana Jansens, Derek Foreman
@author Mario Danic, Thomas Schmitt
@mainpage Libburn Documentation Index
@section intro Introduction
Libburn is an open source library suite for reading, mastering and writing
optical discs.
Libburn is an open-source library for reading, mastering and writing
optical discs. For now this means only CD-R and CD-RW.
@section using Using the library
The project comprises of several more or less interdependent parts which
together strive to be a usable foundation for application development.
These are libraries, language bindings, and middleware binaries which emulate
classical (and valuable) Linux tools.
@subsection concepts Library concepts
Our scope is currently Linux 2.4 and 2.6 and we will have a hard time to widen
this for now, because of our history. The project could need advise from or
membership of skilled kernel people and people who know how to talk CD/DVD
drives into doing things.
We do have a workable code base for burning data CDs, though. The burn API is
quite comprehensively documented and can be used to build a presentable
application.
We do have a functional binary which emulates parts of cdrecord in order to
prove that usability, and in order to allow you to explore libburn's scope
by help of existing cdrecord frontends.
The project components (list subject to growth, hopefully):
- libburn the library by which preformatted data get onto optical media.
It uses either /dev/sgN (e.g. on kernel 2.4 with ide-scsi) or
/dev/hdX (e.g. on kernel 2.6).
libburn is the foundation of our cdrecord emulation.
- libisofs the library to pack up hard disk files and directories into a
ISO 9660 disk image. This may then be brought to CD via libburn.
libisofs is to be the foundation of our upcoming mkisofs emulation.
- cdrskin a limited cdrecord compatibility wrapper for libburn.
cdrecord is a powerful GPL'ed burn program included in Joerg
Schilling's cdrtools. cdrskin strives to be a second source for
the services traditionally provided by cdrecord.
cdrskin does not contain any bytes copied from cdrecord's sources.
Many bytes have been copied from the message output of cdrecord
runs, though.
See cdrskin/README for more.
- test a collection of application gestures and examples given by the
authors of the library features. cdrskin for example originally
emerged from test/burniso.c and you can see traces of my first
steps in there. Explore these examples if you look for inspiration.
We plan to be a responsive upstream. Bear with us. We are still practicing.
Our build system is based on autotools which seem to be a bit smarter than me.
User experience tells us that you will need at least autotools version 1.7.
To build libburn and its subprojects it should be sufficient to go into
its toplevel directory and execute
./bootstrap (needed if you downloaded from SVN and not a release tarball)
./configure
make
To make the libraries accessible for running resp. developing applications
make install
@section using Using the libraries
Both libraries are written in C language and get built by autotools.
Thus we expect them to be useable by a wide range of Linux-implemented
languages and development tools.
For the libburn library there is a reference and demo application
test/libburner
@subsection concepts Libburn library concepts
There are a few concepts to introduce in order for you to understand how to
use Libburn. So, lets start with them:
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steps:
<ol>
<li> Initialize the library. (If not already done; a single instance of
the library can perform multiple operations simultaneously with
multiple drives.)
<li> Scan for available Drives.
<li> Choose and grab a Drive for reading/writing.
<li> Initialize the library.
<li> Depends on wether you know the persisten drive address in advance
If yes:
2a. Aquire this drive alone and directly by function
burn_drive_scan_and_grab() and be done until step 5
If no address known yet:
2b. Scan for available Drives..
<li>b Choose a Drive for reading/writing and inquire its persistent address.
<li>b Shut down library, re-initialize it and like in step 2a aquire the
chosen drive by function burn_drive_scan_and_grab()
<li> Fill in the options for the operation.
<li> Wait for the operation to complete, displaying status along the way
<li> Wait for the operation to complete, displaying status along the wayi
if desired.
<li> Release the Drive.
<li> Destroy the library instance. (If you're done working with the
library.)
<li> Destroy the library instance. (If you're done working with the library.)
</ol>
Here's a very simple example of burning an ISO file
Here's a minimal demo application for the libburn library
@include burniso.c
@include libburner.c
*/