Some bragging about DVD+RW

cdrskin/README

@@ -146,22 +146,17 @@ It is not checked for the necessary degree of hacker safety.
 Get an overview of cdrecord style addresses of available devices
     cdrskin -scanbus 
     cdrskin dev=ATA -scanbus 
+    cdrskin --devices
 
-Note: Adresses reported with dev=ATA are to be used with prefix "ATA:". You may
+Adresses reported with dev=ATA need prefix "ATA:". Address examples:
-      well use device file addresses as reported with --devices. Examples:
+    dev=0,1,0  dev=ATA:1,0,0  dev=/dev/sg1  dev=/dev/hdc
-        dev=0,1,0   dev=/dev/sg1  dev=ATA:1,0,0   dev=/dev/hdc
+See also "Drive Addressing" below.
-      See also "Drive Addressing".
-Note: Address numbers have changed since cdrskin-0.2.2 in order to become
-      compatible with cdrecord numbers. To get the old number scheme, use
-      option  --old_pseudo_scsi_adr . See also "Pseudo-SCSI Adresses".
-      Sorry for any inconvenience.
-
 
 Obtain some info about the drive
     cdrskin dev=0,1,0 -checkdrive 
 
 Obtain some info about the drive and the inserted media
-    cdrskin dev=0,1,0 -atip 
+    cdrskin dev=0,1,0 -atip -v
 
 Thoroughly blank a CD-RW
     cdrskin -v dev=0,1,0 blank=all -eject 
@@ -169,11 +164,11 @@ Thoroughly blank a CD-RW
 Blank CD-RW sufficiently for making it ready for overwrite
     cdrskin -v dev=0,1,0 blank=fast -eject 
 
-Burn image file  my_image.iso  to CD
+Burn image file  my_image.iso  to CD or DVD+RW
-    cdrskin -v dev=0,1,0 speed=12 fs=8m -sao driveropts=burnfree padsize=300k \
+    cdrskin -v dev=0,1,0 speed=12 fs=8m driveropts=burnfree padsize=300k \
             -eject  my_image.iso 
 
-Burn a compressed afio archive to CD on-the-fly
+Burn a compressed afio archive to CD or DVD+RW on-the-fly
     find . | afio -oZ - | cdrskin -v dev=0,1,0 fs=32m speed=8 -tao \
                                   driveropts=burnfree padsize=300k - 
 
@@ -217,6 +212,8 @@ Many cdrecord options are still unsupported, though.
 
 If you have use cases for them, please report your wishes and expectations.
 
+DVD support is still immature and restricted to DVD+RW for now. 
+
 
 
                            Inspiration and Standard
@@ -373,6 +370,16 @@ I myself am not into audio. So libburn-hackers@pykix.org might be the
 best address for suggestions, requests and bug reports.
 
 
+                                     DVD+RW
+
+DVD+RW media get treated as blank media regardless wether they hold data
+or not. Options -audio and -multi are not allowed. Only one track is allowed.
+-toc does not return information about the media content.
+Speed is counted in DVD units (i.e. 1x = 1,385,000 bytes/second). Currently
+there is no difference between -sao and -tao. If ever, then -tao will be the
+mode which preserves the current behavior.
+
+
                         Special compilation variations
 
 You may get a (super fat) statically linked binary by :

cdrskin/cdrskin.1

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 .\" .sp <n>    insert n+1 empty lines
 .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7)
 .SH NAME
-cdrskin \- burns preformatted data to CD-R or CD-RW via libburn.
+cdrskin \- burns preformatted data to CD-R, CD-RW or DVD+RW via libburn.
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B cdrskin
 .RI [ options | track_source_addresses ]
@@ -35,16 +35,18 @@ You do not need to be superuser for its daily usage.
 .br
 Blanking of CD-RW.
 .br
-Burning of data or audio tracks to CD.
+Burning of data or audio tracks to CD,
 .br
-Either in versatile Track at Once mode (TAO)
+either in versatile Track at Once mode (TAO)
 .br
 or in Session at Once mode for seamless tracks.
 .br
-Multi session (follow-up sessions in TAO only).
+Multi session on CD (follow-up sessions in TAO only).
 .br
 Bus scan, burnfree, speed options, retrieving media info, padding, fifo.
 .br
+Burning of a single data track to DVD+RW.
+.br
 See section EXAMPLES at the end of this text.
 .PP
 .B Track recording model:
@@ -100,6 +102,16 @@ round of overwriting. Blanking damages the previous content but does not
 make it completely unreadable. It is no effective privacy precaution.
 Multiple cycles of blanking and overwriting with random numbers might be.
 .PP
+.B Recordable DVD Media:
+.br
+Currently only type DVD+RW can be burned via cdrskin.
+DVD+RW media get treated as blank media regardless wether they hold data
+or not. Options -audio and -multi are not allowed. Only one track is allowed.
+-toc does not return information about the media content.
+Speed is counted in DVD units (i.e. 1x = 1,385,000 bytes/second). Currently
+there is no difference between -sao and -tao. If ever, then -tao will be the
+mode which preserves the current behavior.
+.PP
 .B Drive preparation and addressing:
 .br
 The drives, either CD burners or DVD burners, are accessed via addresses which
@@ -559,13 +571,13 @@ cdrskin dev=/dev/hdc padsize=300k -multi -tao 3.afio
 .br
 cdrskin dev=/dev/hdc padsize=300k -tao 4.afio
 .SS
-.B Get the multi-session info for option -C of program mkisofs:
+.B Get CD multi-session info for option -C of program mkisofs:
 .br
 c_values=$(cdrskin dev=/dev/sr0 -msinfo 2>/dev/null)
 .br
 mkisofs ... -C "$c_values" ...
 .SS
-.B Write audio tracks:
+.B Write audio tracks to CD:
 .br
 cdrskin -v dev=ATA:1,0,0 speed=48 \\
 .br

cdrskin/cdrskin.c

@@ -1970,7 +1970,7 @@ set_dev:;
 
      printf("\n");
      printf("Usage: %s [options|source_addresses]\n", argv[0]);
-     printf("Burns preformatted data to CD-R or CD-RW via libburn.\n");
+     printf("Burns preformatted data to CD-R, CD-RW or DVD+RW via libburn.\n");
      printf("For the cdrecord compatible options which control the work of\n");
      printf(
       "blanking and burning see output of option -help rather than --help.\n");
@@ -2908,7 +2908,7 @@ int Cdrskin_abort_handler(struct CdrskiN *skin, int signum, int flag)
  if(skin->grabbed_drive!=NULL)
    drive_status= burn_drive_get_status(skin->grabbed_drive,&p);
  if(drive_status!=BURN_DRIVE_IDLE) {
-   fprintf(stderr,"cdrskin: ABORT : Abort processing depends on CD speed and buffer size\n");
+   fprintf(stderr,"cdrskin: ABORT : Abort processing depends on speed and buffer size\n");
    fprintf(stderr,"cdrskin: ABORT : Usually it is done with 4x speed after about a MINUTE\n");
    fprintf(stderr,"cdrskin: URGE  : But wait at least the normal burning time before any kill -9\n");
  }
@@ -2974,7 +2974,7 @@ int Cdrskin_abort_handler(struct CdrskiN *skin, int signum, int flag)
                "cdrskin: ABORT : Will wait for current operation to end\n");
      }
      if(drive_status!=BURN_DRIVE_IDLE) {
-       fprintf(stderr,"cdrskin: ABORT : Abort processing depends on CD speed and buffer size\n");
+       fprintf(stderr,"cdrskin: ABORT : Abort processing depends on speed and buffer size\n");
        fprintf(stderr,"cdrskin: ABORT : Usually it is done with 4x speed after about a MINUTE\n");
        fprintf(stderr,"cdrskin: URGE  : But wait at least the normal burning time before any kill -9\n");
      }
@@ -3754,7 +3754,7 @@ int Cdrskin_atip(struct CdrskiN *skin, int flag)
      printf("Current: CD-R\n");
  }
  if(strstr(profile_name,"DVD")==profile_name) {
-   printf("book type:       %s (emulated)\n", profile_name);
+   printf("book type:       %s (emulated booktype)\n", profile_name);
  } else {
    printf("ATIP info from disk:\n");
    if(burn_disc_erasable(drive)) {

cdrskin/cdrskin_eng.html

@@ -229,6 +229,7 @@ Enhancements towards previous stable version cdrskin-0.2.4:
 <LI>Improved recognition of unsuitable media types</LI>
 <LI>Ban of chmod u+s is replaced by a loud warning</LI>
 <LI>Detailed man page (already backported to cdrskin-0.2.6.pl02)</LI>
+<LI>Burning to DVD+RW as non-multi, non-appending, single-track session</LI>
 </UL>
 </DD>
 <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

cdrskin/cdrskin_timestamp.h

@@ -1 +1 @@
-#define Cdrskin_timestamP "2006.12.21.205702"
+#define Cdrskin_timestamP "2006.12.21.214641"

doc/comments

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 
 Libburnia is an open-source project for reading, mastering and writing
 optical discs. For now this means only CD-R and CD-RW.
+Support for DVD+RW is emerging.
+
 
 The project comprises of several more or less interdependent parts which
 together strive to be a usable foundation for application development.
@@ -82,6 +84,7 @@ 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
 can burn to CD-R or CD-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