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@ -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

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cdrskin/convert_man_to_html.sh
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@ -43,12 +43,15 @@ then
-e 's/<h1 align=center>CDRSKIN<\/h1>/<h1 align=center>man 1 cdrskin<\/h1>/' \
-e 's/<body>/<body BGCOLOR="#F5DEB3" TEXT=#000000 LINK=#0000A0 VLINK=#800000>/' \
-e 's/<b>Overview of features:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>Overview of features:<\/b>/' \
-e 's/<b>General information paragraphs:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>General information paragraphs:<\/b>/' \
-e 's/<b>Track recording model:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>Track recording model:<\/b>/' \
-e 's/In general there are two types of tracks: data and audio./\&nbsp;<BR>In general there are two types of tracks: data and audio./' \
-e 's/While audio tracks just contain a given/\&nbsp;<BR>While audio tracks just contain a given/' \
-e 's/<b>Write mode selection:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>Write mode selection:<\/b>/' \
-e 's/<b>Recordable CD Media:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>Recordable CD Media:<\/b>/' \
-e 's/<b>Overwriteable DVD Media:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>Overwriteable DVD Media:<\/b>/' \
-e 's/<b>Sequentially Recordable DVD Media:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>Sequentially Recordable DVD Media:<\/b>/' \
-e 's/The write modes for DVD+R/\&nbsp;<BR>The write modes for DVD+R/' \
-e 's/<b>Drive preparation and addressing:<\/b>/\&nbsp;<BR><b>Drive preparation and addressing:<\/b>/' \
-e 's/If you only got one CD capable drive/\&nbsp;<BR>If you only got one CD capable drive/' \
-e 's/^Alphabetical list of options/\&nbsp;<BR>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

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@ -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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