NEW features of cdrtools-1.11a12: Please have a look at the German open Source Center BerliOS at www.berlios.de BerliOS will continue to support free hosting of cryptography projects even when US laws change and don't allow to host cryptography projects in the USA. Also look at sourcewell.berlios.de, the first Open Source announcement service for free software. ***************** Important news **************************** For the 'Slottable Source Plugin Module' SSPM Features read README.SSPM ***************** Please Test ********************************* NOTE: There are 3000 new lines of code and aprox. 1500 lines of code did change within the last few weeks. Although I thoroughly tested every line of my code, there may be bugs... Please report if you have any problem that is not present with cdrtools-1.11a01. ************** Latest 'stable' alpha: 1.11a01 ****************** All: - fixed fexec.c to make it compile ion QNX - Now the complete libschily is included although it it not needed for cdrtools. There are two reasons for doing this: - Cdrtools is _the_ program that is heavily tested on many different platforms, so I will get reports for compile problems this way. - cdrtools becomes a base docking platform for the SSPM system this way. Now any of the Schily tools may be included and compiled inside the base portability platform 'cdrtools'. Libscg: Rscsi: Cdrecord: *********************************************************************** CD-Text Usage: cdda2wav -D 6,0 -v255 -B # To extract audio information cdrecord dev=6,0 -vv -toc # To extract CD-Text information and then cdrecord dev=6,0 -v -dao textfile=cdtext.dat -useinfo *.wav or cdrecord dev=6,0 -v -raw96r textfile=cdtext.dat -useinfo *.wav If the CD-Text information contains CRC errors, you need to re-read the CD-Text information from the master disk. Writing of CD-Text is supported for all drives that support CD-Text in SAO write mode and for all drives that support to write in RAW/RAW96R mode (use -raw96r in this case). *********************************************************************** Tips for MMC RAW mode writing. This allows to do disk at once recording on Philips drives that do not support SAO. You may write audio tracks in RAW mode. There are some new and most likely transient options: -raw16 Write 2352 Bytes sectors + P+Q Subchannel -raw96r Write 2352 Bytes sectors + P+W Subchannel (R-W in raw mode) -raw96p Write 2352 Bytes sectors + P+W Subchannel (R-W in packed mode) NOTE that the MMC standard does not allow -dummy in RAW mode. There may be drives which allow it but don't bother if it does not work. Indices are fully supported in RAW mode. MCN & ISRC are not yet suported in RAW mode, they are silently discarded. If you find other problems in RAW mode or if you find new bugs introduced in old write modes, please send a bug report. Cdrecord now checks the properties of the writer. If a specific write mode is not supported by the writer, cdrecord warns you and makes a suggestion for a similar alternate write mode. With the curent structure of cdrecord, it is not possible to silently e.g. change the write mode from -dao to -raw96r MMC compliant drives are automatically scanned for supported write modes. This should help to make cdrecord work without manual static configuration. My hope is still to have no need to know all drive properties in advance, so new drives will continue to work as long as they are standard comliant enough for cdrecord. EXAMPLES: cdrecord dev=1,0 -v -raw96r *.wav will write a audio CD in raw mode using (computed) 2448 byte sectors with raw P-W subchannels. This works e.g. with Plextor drives. cdrecord dev=1,0 -v -raw16 *.wav will write a audio CD in raw mode using (computed) 2368 byte sectors with raw P+Q subchannels. This works e.g. with Philips drives. NOTE: The input sector size always is 2352 bytes for audio. IMPORTANT: - if the drive supports RAW/R96R among with other raw write modes, use -raw96r - if the drive does _only_ supports RAW/R16, use -raw16 - ... else if the drive supports RAW/R96P, use -raw96p The packed raw mode (RAW/R96P) is buggy in Plextor drives and the RAW/R16 mode is buggy in TEAC drives. Plextor creates unreadble disks and TEAC hangs the drive. For this reason, it is important to select the raw writing mode accoding to the notes above. ****************************************************************** Cdda2wav: - Changed handling of Table of contents. Now the more informative methods of Read full toc are being used in favor to the old SCSI readtoc command. For Sony methods, the fallback is the old method. The new methods are available on MMC drives and modern drives with Sony command sets. It should enhance access to very weird multi session cds. ************** NOTE: If your drive still has problems to copy such non-CD's, there is a simple hack to allow the disk to be copied on all drives: Use a (black) whiteboard pen (non-permanent) and paint on the space directly outside the visible ring that is in the middle of the non-CD. This is the space where the broken TOC from the second session is located. After doing the copy please return the disk to the dealer and tell the dealer that this is broken goods. This is the only way to stop the big groups to defraud the customers. ************* - Temporary hack to fix a bug in the ISRC code that caused the ISRC string to be shortened by one character. Readcd: Scgcheck: Mkisofs: - Fixed a problem from an uninitialized variable in desktop.c that caused random effects in Apple CD's - better documentation for README.sort/README.hide from James Pearson - Fixed a bug in sort code that caused the compare function to behave symmetric when called c(a,b) vs. c(b,a) - First UDF support via -udf option - thanks to Ben Rudiak-Gould. Note that the UDF support is not what you might indend. It is currently wired to the Joliet tree which is a bad idea. It also does not yet support Symbolic Links, user ID's and similar. TODO: - read Joliet filenames with multi-session if no TRANS.TBL or RR is present. I am looking for a volouteer for this task: Peter Berendi <berendi2@webdesign.hu> announced that he likes to be the volounteer for this task. Unfortunately, I did no hear again from him, but I got a proposal from "Krisztian Gede" <nameless@mail.datanet.hu> who also likes to do the job. Note that this can never 100% correctly as there is no relation between the names on the master filesystem, the ISO-9660 names and the Joliet names. Only the Rock Ridge names are untranslated with respect to the origina files on the master filesystem. - implement Yellow book compliant XA extended dir attributes - add libecc/edc for CDI and similar. - add UDF support CYGWIN NT-4.0 NOTES: To compile on Cygwin32, get Cygwin and install it. For more information read README.win32 The files are located on: ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/alpha ... NOTE: These tar archives are 100% ansi compatible. Solaris 2.x tar and GNU tar may get some minor trouble. WARNING: Do not use 'mc' to extract the tar file! All mc versions before 4.0.14 cannot extract symbolic links correctly. WARNING: Do not use 'winzip' to extract the tar file! Winzip cannot extract symbolic links correctly. Joerg
