diff --git a/cdrskin/cdrskin.1 b/cdrskin/cdrskin.1
index 8d310aa..cc34f23 100644
--- a/cdrskin/cdrskin.1
+++ b/cdrskin/cdrskin.1
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ See section EXAMPLES at the end of this text.
.br
Track recording model
.br
+Write mode selection
+.br
Recordable CD Media
.br
Sequentially Recordable DVD Media
@@ -108,6 +110,16 @@ have been developed for magnetic tapes. Only formats which mark a detectable
end-of-archive in their data are suitable, though. Well tested are
the archivers afio and star. Not suitable seems GNU tar.
.PP
+.B Write mode selection:
+.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.
+.br
+So the mentioning of write modes in the following paragraphs and in the
+examples is not so much a demand that the user shall choose one explicitely,
+but rather an illustration of what to expect with particular media types.
+.PP
.B Recordable CD Media:
.br
CD-R can be initially written only once and eventually extended until they
@@ -454,8 +466,8 @@ then behave strange or even go bad for the next few attempts to burn a CD.
One should use it only if inavoidable.
.TP
.BI \-sao
-Write CD in Session At Once mode, resp. a sequential DVD-R[W] in Disc-at-once
-(DAO) mode.
+Write CD in Session At Once mode, a sequential DVD-R[W] in Disc-at-once
+(DAO) mode, or a DVD+R.
.br
With CD this mode is able to put several audio tracks on media without
producing audible gaps between them.
@@ -463,6 +475,9 @@ producing audible gaps between them.
With DVD-R[W] this mode can only write a single track.
No -multi is allowed with DVD-R[W] -sao.
.br
+-sao is permissible with overwriteable DVD and with DVD+R but actually only
+imposes restrictions without providing known advantages.
+.br
-sao can only be used for tracks of fixely predicted size. This implies that
track arguments which depict stdin or named pipes need to be preceeded by
option tsize= or by option tao_to_sao_tsize=.
@@ -497,8 +512,9 @@ Less guesswork is needed if track sources are in format MS-WAVE in a file with
suffix ".wav".
.TP
.BI \-tao
-Write CD in Track At Once (TAO) mode, resp. sequential DVD-R[W] in Incremental
-Streaming mode. This mode also applies pro-forma to overwriteable DVD media.
+Write CD in Track At Once (TAO) mode, sequential DVD-R[W] in Incremental
+Streaming mode, or DVD+R without traditional -sao restrictions.
+This mode also applies pro-forma to overwriteable DVD media.
.br
Mode -tao can be used with track sources of unpredictable size, like standard
input or named pipes. It is also the only mode that can be used for writing
diff --git a/cdrskin/convert_man_to_html.sh b/cdrskin/convert_man_to_html.sh
index 7702504..942ec06 100755
--- a/cdrskin/convert_man_to_html.sh
+++ b/cdrskin/convert_man_to_html.sh
@@ -43,12 +43,15 @@ then
-e 's/
CDRSKIN<\/h1>/man 1 cdrskin<\/h1>/' \
-e 's///' \
-e 's/Overview of features:<\/b>/\
Overview of features:<\/b>/' \
+ -e 's/General information paragraphs:<\/b>/\
General information paragraphs:<\/b>/' \
-e 's/Track recording model:<\/b>/\
Track recording model:<\/b>/' \
-e 's/In general there are two types of tracks: data and audio./\
In general there are two types of tracks: data and audio./' \
-e 's/While audio tracks just contain a given/\
While audio tracks just contain a given/' \
+ -e 's/Write mode selection:<\/b>/\
Write mode selection:<\/b>/' \
-e 's/Recordable CD Media:<\/b>/\
Recordable CD Media:<\/b>/' \
-e 's/Overwriteable DVD Media:<\/b>/\
Overwriteable DVD Media:<\/b>/' \
-e 's/Sequentially Recordable DVD Media:<\/b>/\
Sequentially Recordable DVD Media:<\/b>/' \
+ -e 's/The write modes for DVD+R/\
The write modes for DVD+R/' \
-e 's/Drive preparation and addressing:<\/b>/\
Drive preparation and addressing:<\/b>/' \
-e 's/If you only got one CD capable drive/\
If you only got one CD capable drive/' \
-e 's/^Alphabetical list of options/\
Alphabetical list of options/' \
@@ -60,7 +63,7 @@ then
chmod u+rw,go+r,go-w "$htmlpage"
echo "Emerged file:"
- ls -l "$htmlpage"
+ ls -lL "$htmlpage"
else
diff --git a/cdrskin/wiki_plain.txt b/cdrskin/wiki_plain.txt
index 1dbd6fa..7a00c77 100644
--- a/cdrskin/wiki_plain.txt
+++ b/cdrskin/wiki_plain.txt
@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ Schilling's cdrtools. cdrskin strives to be a second source for the services
traditionally provided by cdrecord. Currently it does CD-R and CD-RW this way.
Overwriteable media DVD-RAM, DVD+RW and DVD-RW are handled differently than
with cdrecord-ProDVD in order to offer TAO-like single track recording.
-Sequential DVD-R[W] are handled like CD-R[W] with TAO and multi-session.
-Additionally cdrskin offers cdrecord-ProDVD-like mode DAO with DVD-R[W].
+Sequential DVD-R[W] and DVD+R are handled like CD-R[W] with TAO and
+multi-session. Additionally cdrskin offers cdrecord-ProDVD-like mode DAO
+with DVD-R[W].
cdrskin does not contain any bytes copied from cdrecord's sources.
Many bytes have been copied from the message output of cdrecord
@@ -22,13 +23,9 @@ About libburn API for burning CD: http://libburnia-api.pykix.org
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-Appending sessions to an unclosed CD or DVD-R[W] is restricted to write mode
-TAO. (Users who have a burner which succeeds with a follow-up session on CD via
-cdrecord -sao : please contact us.)
-
-For DVD types other than DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD-R and for appending
-sessions to ISO filesystems on DVD other than DVD-RW, DVD-R see the advise
-to use dvd+rw-tools at the end of this text.
+For dual layer DVD types and for appending sessions to ISO filesystems on
+DVD other than DVD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R see the advise to use dvd+rw-tools at
+the end of this text.
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@@ -86,10 +83,9 @@ has to offer both, r- and w-permission.
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The DVD capabilities of cdrskin differ from those of cdrecord-ProDVD. cdrskin
-lacks of support for DVD+R and for dual layer DVD media. On the other hand it
-offers TAO-like multi-session with DVD-R[W] and TAO-like single session with
-overwriteable DVD media. It also offers DAO on DVD-R[W] which is probably the
-same as the traditional cdrecord-ProDVD write mode.
+offers TAO-like multi-session with DVD-R[W], DVD+R and TAO-like single session
+with overwriteable DVD media. It also offers DAO on DVD-R[W] which is probably
+the same as the traditional cdrecord-ProDVD write mode.
Non-cdrecord blank mode blank=format_overwrite brings a DVD-RW
disc from its initial profile "Sequential Recording" into profile state
@@ -209,10 +205,10 @@ for an illustrated example with K3b 0.10 .
DVD advise:
-For burning of DVD media other than DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD-R, the cdrskin
-project currently advises to use Andy Polyakov's dvd+rw-tools which despite
-their historic name burn for me on above burner: DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, DVD+R,
-DVD-RW, DVD-R and are also capable of dual layer and even BD discs.
+For burning of DVD media other than DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD-R,
+the cdrskin project currently advises to use Andy Polyakov's dvd+rw-tools
+which despite their historic name are capable of all the media above
+and also do dual layer and even BD discs.
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/tools
@@ -228,9 +224,10 @@ So for growable ISO filesystems on DVD-RAM or DVD+RW growisofs is the only
choice, currently.
-cdrskin can offer DVD multi-session only with sequential DVD-R[W]. Associated
-options blank=, -multi, -msinfo and -toc are available in this case. Thus
-sequential DVD-RW behave much like large CD-RW with possibly more than 99
+cdrskin can offer DVD multi-session only with sequential DVD-R[W] and with
+DVD+R.
+Associated options blank=, -multi, -msinfo and -toc are available in this case.
+Thus sequential DVD-RW behave much like large CD-RW with possibly more than 99
tracks.
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