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@author Mario Danic, Thomas Schmitt
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@mainpage Libburnia Documentation Index
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@section intro Introduction
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Libburnia is an open-source project for reading, mastering and writing
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optical discs. For now this means CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, DVD-RW.
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DVD-R is untested yet.
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The project comprises of several more or less interdependent parts which
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together strive to be a usable foundation for application development.
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These are libraries, language bindings, and middleware binaries which emulate
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classical (and valuable) Linux tools.
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Our scope is currently Linux 2.4 and 2.6 only. For ports to other systems
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we would need : login on a development machine resp. a live OS on CD or DVD,
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advise from a system person about the equivalent of Linux sg or FreeBSD CAM,
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volunteers for testing of realistic use cases.
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We have a workable code base for burning data and audio CDs. The burn API is
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quite comprehensively documented and can be used to build a presentable
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application.
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We have a functional binary which emulates the core use cases of cdrecord in
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order to prove that usability, and in order to allow you to explore libburn's
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scope by help of existing cdrecord frontends.
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@subsection components The project components (list subject to growth, hopefully):
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- libburn is the library by which preformatted data get onto optical media.
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It uses either /dev/sgN (e.g. on kernel 2.4 with ide-scsi) or
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/dev/hdX (e.g. on kernel 2.6).
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libburn is the foundation of our cdrecord emulation.
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- libisofs is the library to pack up hard disk files and directories into a
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ISO 9660 disk image. This may then be brought to CD via libburn.
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libisofs is to be the foundation of our upcoming mkisofs emulation.
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- cdrskin is a limited cdrecord compatibility wrapper for libburn.
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cdrecord is a powerful GPL'ed burn program included in Joerg
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Schilling's cdrtools. cdrskin strives to be a second source for
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the services traditionally provided by cdrecord.
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cdrskin does not contain any bytes copied from cdrecord's sources.
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Many bytes have been copied from the message output of cdrecord
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runs, though.
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See cdrskin/README for more.
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- "test" is a collection of application gestures and examples given by the
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authors of the library features. The main API example of libburn
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is named test/libburner.c .
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Explore these examples if you look for inspiration.
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We plan to be a responsive upstream. Bear with us.
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@section using Using the libraries
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Our build system is based on autotools.
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User experience tells us that you will need at least autotools version 1.7.
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To build libburn and its subprojects it should be sufficient to go into
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its toplevel directory and execute
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- ./bootstrap (needed if you downloaded from SVN)
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- ./configure
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- make
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To make the libraries accessible for running resp. developing applications
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- make install
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Both libraries are written in C language and get built by autotools.
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Thus we expect them to be useable by a wide range of Linux-implemented
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languages and development tools.
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@section libburner Libburner
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libburner is a minimal demo application for the library libburn
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(see: libburn/libburn.h) as provided on http://libburn.pykix.org .
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It can list the available devices, can blank a CD-RW or DVD-RW and
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can burn to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, DVD-RW.
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It's main purpose, nevertheless, is to show you how to use libburn and also
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to serve the libburnia team as reference application. libburner does indeed
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define the standard way how above three gestures can be implemented and
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stay upward compatible for a good while.
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@subsection libburner-help Libburner --help
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<pre>
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Usage: test/libburner
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[--drive <address>|<driveno>|"-"] [--audio]
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[--blank_fast|--blank_full|--format_overwrite]
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[--try_to_simulate]
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[--multi] [<one or more imagefiles>|"-"]
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Examples
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A bus scan (needs rw-permissions to see a drive):
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test/libburner --drive -
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Burn a file to drive chosen by number, leave appendable:
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test/libburner --drive 0 --multi my_image_file
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Burn a file to drive chosen by persistent address, close:
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test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc my_image_file
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Blank a used CD-RW (is combinable with burning in one run):
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test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc --blank_fast
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Blank a used DVD-RW (is combinable with burning in one run):
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test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc --blank_full
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Format a DVD-RW to avoid need for blanking before re-use:
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test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc --format_overwrite
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Burn two audio tracks (to CD only):
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lame --decode -t /path/to/track1.mp3 track1.cd
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test/dewav /path/to/track2.wav -o track2.cd
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test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc --audio track1.cd track2.cd
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Burn a compressed afio archive on-the-fly:
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( cd my_directory ; find . -print | afio -oZ - ) | \
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test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc -
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To be read from *not mounted* media via: afio -tvZ /dev/hdc
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</pre>
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libburner has two companions, telltoc and dewav, which help to perform some
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peripheral tasks of burning.
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telltoc prints a table of content (sessions, tracks and leadouts), it tells
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about type and state of media, and also is able to provide the necessary
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multi-session information for program mkisofs option -C. Especially helpful
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are its predictions with "Write multi" and "Write modes" where availability
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of "TAO" indicates that tracks of unpredicted length can be written.
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See: test/telltoc --help.
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dewav extracts raw byte-swapped audio data from files of format .wav (MS WAVE)
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or .au (SUN Audio). See example in libburner --help.
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@subsection libburner-source Sourceode of libburner
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Click on blue names of functions, structures, variables, etc in oder to
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get to the according specs of libburn API or libburner sourcecode.
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@include libburner.c
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*/
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