Updated documentation aspects

libburn/trunk/doc/comments

@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
    @section intro Introduction
 
 Libburnia is an open-source project for reading, mastering and writing
-optical discs. For now this means only CD-R and CD-RW.
+optical discs. For now this means CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, DVD-RW.
-Support for DVD+RW and DVD-RW is emerging.
+DVD-R is untested yet.
 
 
 The project comprises of several more or less interdependent parts which
@@ -82,9 +82,8 @@ languages and development tools.
 
 libburner is a minimal demo application for the library libburn 
 (see: libburn/libburn.h) as provided on  http://libburn.pykix.org .
-It can list the available devices, can blank a CD-RW and
+It can list the available devices, can blank a CD-RW or DVD-RW and
-can burn to CD-R or CD-RW.
+can burn to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, DVD-RW.
-New: burning to DVD+/-RW (single data track, single session only).
 
 It's main purpose, nevertheless, is to show you how to use libburn and also
 to serve the libburnia team as reference application. libburner does indeed
@@ -95,8 +94,9 @@ stay upward compatible for a good while.
 <pre>
 Usage: test/libburner
        [--drive <address>|<driveno>|"-"]  [--audio]
-       [--blank_fast|--blank_full]  [--try_to_simulate]
+       [--blank_fast|--blank_full|--format_overwrite]
-       [--multi]  [one or more imagefiles|"-"]
+       [--try_to_simulate]
+       [--multi]  [<one or more imagefiles>|"-"]
 Examples
 A bus scan (needs rw-permissions to see a drive):
   test/libburner --drive -
@@ -106,22 +106,27 @@ Burn a file to drive chosen by persistent address, close:
   test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc my_image_file
 Blank a used CD-RW (is combinable with burning in one run):
   test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc --blank_fast
-Burn two audio tracks
+Blank a used DVD-RW (is combinable with burning in one run):
+  test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc --blank_full
+Format a DVD-RW to avoid need for blanking before re-use:
+  test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc --format_overwrite
+Burn two audio tracks (to CD only):
   lame --decode -t /path/to/track1.mp3 track1.cd
   test/dewav /path/to/track2.wav -o track2.cd
   test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc --audio track1.cd track2.cd
 Burn a compressed afio archive on-the-fly:
   ( cd my_directory ; find . -print | afio -oZ - ) | \
   test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc -
-To be read from *not mounted* CD via: afio -tvZ /dev/hdc
+To be read from *not mounted* media via: afio -tvZ /dev/hdc
-Program tar would need a clean EOF which our padded CD cannot deliver.
 </pre>
 libburner has two companions, telltoc and dewav, which help to perform some
 peripheral tasks of burning.
 
 telltoc prints a table of content (sessions, tracks and leadouts), it tells
-about type and state of CD media, and also is able to provide the necessary
+about type and state of media, and also is able to provide the necessary
-multi-session information for program mkisofs option -C. 
+multi-session information for program mkisofs option -C. Especially helpful
+are its predictions with "Write multi" and "Write modes" where availability
+of "TAO" indicates that tracks of unpredicted length can be written.
 See: test/telltoc --help.
 
 dewav extracts raw byte-swapped audio data from files of format .wav (MS WAVE)

libburn/trunk/test/libburner.c

@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@
   
   libburner is a minimal demo application for the library libburn as provided
   on  http://libburnia.pykix.org . It can list the available devices, can
-  blank a CD-RW, can format a DVD-RW, and can burn to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+RW,
+  blank a CD-RW or DVD-RW, can format a DVD-RW, and can burn to CD-R, CD-RW,
-  DVD-RAM or DVD-RW.
+  DVD+RW, DVD-RAM or DVD-RW. Not tested: DVD-R. Not supported yet: DVD+R [DL].
+
   It's main purpose, nevertheless, is to show you how to use libburn and also
   to serve the libburnia team as reference application. libburner.c does indeed
   define the standard way how above three gestures can be implemented and
@@ -593,9 +594,11 @@ int libburner_setup(int argc, char **argv)
         printf("  %s --drive /dev/hdc my_image_file\n", argv[0]);
         printf("Blank a used CD-RW (is combinable with burning in one run):\n");
         printf("  %s --drive /dev/hdc --blank_fast\n",argv[0]);
-        printf("Format a DVD-RW once before first use with libburner:\n");
+        printf("Blank a used DVD-RW (is combinable with burning in one run):\n");
+        printf("  %s --drive /dev/hdc --blank_full\n",argv[0]);
+        printf("Format a DVD-RW to avoid need for blanking before re-use:\n");
         printf("  %s --drive /dev/hdc --format_overwrite\n", argv[0]);
-        printf("Burn two audio tracks:\n");
+        printf("Burn two audio tracks (to CD only):\n");
         printf("  lame --decode -t /path/to/track1.mp3 track1.cd\n");
         printf("  test/dewav /path/to/track2.wav -o track2.cd\n");
         printf("  %s --drive /dev/hdc --audio track1.cd track2.cd\n", argv[0]);