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libburnia.pykix.org
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libburnia-project.org
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This all is under GPL.
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(See GPL reference, our clarification and commitment at the end of this text)
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libburnia.pykix.org
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libburnia-project.org
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By Mario Danic <mario.danic@gmail.com> and Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net>
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Copyright (C) 2006 Mario Danic, Thomas Schmitt
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Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Mario Danic, Thomas Schmitt
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Still containing parts of
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Libburn. By Derek Foreman <derek@signalmarketing.com> and
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Ben Jansens <xor@orodu.net>
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Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Derek Foreman and Ben Jansens
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These parts are to be replaced by own code of above libburnia.pykix.org
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copyright holders and then libburnia.pykix.org is to be their sole copyright.
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These parts are to be replaced by own code of above libburnia-project.org
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copyright holders and then libburnia-project.org is to be their sole copyright.
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This is done to achieve the right to issue the clarification and the
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commitment as written at the end of this text.
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The rights and merits of the Libburn-copyright holders Derek Foreman and
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Ben Jansens will be duely respected.
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This libburnia.pykix.org toplevel README (C) 2006 Thomas Schmitt
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This libburnia-project.org toplevel README (C) 2006-2007 Thomas Schmitt
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Build and Installation
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@ -27,16 +27,16 @@ This libburnia.pykix.org toplevel README (C) 2006 Thomas Schmitt
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Our build system is based on autotools. For preparing the build of a SVN
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snapshot you will need autotools of at least version 1.7.
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Check out from SVN by
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svn co http://libburnia-svn.pykix.org/libburn/trunk libburn_pykix
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go into directory libburn_pykix and apply autotools by
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svn co http://svn.libburnia-project.org/libburn/trunk libburn
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go into directory libburn and apply autotools by
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./bootstrap
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Alternatively you may unpack a release tarball for which you do not need
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autotools installed.
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To build a libburnia.pykix.org subproject it should be sufficient to go
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into its toplevel directory (here: "libburn_pykix") and execute
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./configure
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To build a libburnia-project.org subproject it should be sufficient to go
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into its toplevel directory (here: "libburn") and execute
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./configure --prefix=/usr
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make
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To make the libraries accessible for running resp. developing applications
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The other half of the project, libisofs, is hosted in the libburnia SVN, too:
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svn co http://libburnia-svn.pykix.org/libisofs/trunk libisofs_pykix
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svn co http://svn.libburnia-project.org/libisofs/trunk libisofs
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See README file there.
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Overview of libburnia.pykix.org
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Overview of libburnia-project.org
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libburnia.pykix.org is an open-source software project for reading, mastering
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and writing optical discs. For now this means only CD-R and CD-RW.
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libburnia-project.org is an open-source software project for reading, mastering
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and writing optical discs.
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For now this means only CD media and all single layer DVD media except DVD+R.
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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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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 do have a workable code base for burning data CDs, though. 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 do have a functional binary which emulates parts of cdrecord in order to
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We have a workable code base for burning CD and most single layer DVD.
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The burn API is quite comprehensively documented and can be used to build a
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presentable application.
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We have a functional binary which emulates parts of cdrecord in order to
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prove that usability, and in order to allow you to explore libburnia's scope
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by help of existing cdrecord frontends.
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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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libburn is the foundation of our cdrecord emulation. Its code is
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independent of cdrecord. Its DVD capabilities are learned from
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studying the code of dvd+rw-tools and MMC-5 specs. No code but only
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the pure SCSI knowledge has been taken from dvd+rw-tools, though.
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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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ISO 9660 disk image. This may then be brought to media 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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the services traditionally provided by cdrecord. Additionally it
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provides libburn's DVD capabilities, where only -sao is compatible
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with 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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See cdrskin/README and man cdrskin/cdrskin.1 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 for libburn
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It has meanwhile moved to use vanilla libburn.pykix.org , though.
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Version 0.1.4 constitutes the first release of this kind.
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- In Juli 2006 our team mate Mario Danic announced a revival of libburn
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- In July 2006 our team mate Mario Danic announced a revival of libburn
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which by about nearly everybody else was perceived as unfriendly fork.
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Derek Foreman four days later posted a message which expressed his
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discontent.
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libburn, is now called libburnia. For the origin of this name, see
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liburnians .
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- 16th January 2007 release of libburn-0.3.0 and cdrskin-0.3.0 . Now the scope
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is widened to a first class of DVD media: overwriteable single layer types
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DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, DVD-RW. This is not a cdrecord emulation but rather inspired
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by dvd+rw-tools' "poor man" writing facility for this class of media.
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Taking a bow towards Andy Polyakov.
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- 11th February 2007 version 0.3.2 covers sequential DVD-RW and DVD-R with
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multi-session and with DAO.
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- 12th March 2007 version 0.3.4 supports DVD+R and thus covers all single layer
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DVD media. Code for double layer DVD+/-R is implemented but awaits a tester
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yet.
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- 23th April 2007 version 0.3.6 follows the unanimous opinion of Linux kernel
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people that one should not use /dev/sg on kernel 2.6.
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- 31st July 2007 version 0.3.8 marks the first anniversary of libburn revival.
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We look back on improved stability, a substantially extended list of media
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and write modes, and better protection against typical user mishaps.
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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the Free Software Foundation. To be exact: version 2 of that License.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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