Burgner README
The Burgner project aims to be a complete free burning suite, totally rewritten from scratch: it does not include any code from cdrtools (cdrecord and mkisofs) nor cdrdao, and is not a front-end for these tools.
It is fully object-oriented (it uses glib's GObject), entirely written in C, and released under the GNU GPL license (libraries and tools).
- Features
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- can generate ISO9660 images, with the RockRidge and ElTorito extensions (these extensions are obviously optional), directories relocating (infinite directory level with RockRidge), with various optimizations (inodes caching, optimal file system's items arranging, etc.).
- can burn CD-DA and CD-ROM tracks.
- can burn CD-EXTRA ! (CD that contains audio and data, but that seems to be "audio-only" CDs in CD players (no first void track). See below.
- fully asynchronous and event-oriented API, to be easily used by a GTK+/GNOME application.
It depends on:
- glib-2.0 >= 2.0;
- gobject-2.0 >= 2.0 (included in the glib package);
- gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.0.
It is (for now) divided in 5 parts:
- libburgnerutils: a library containing a few utility routines
and objects, needed by the other parts of Burgner.
- libburgnerscsi: a library to manipulate Scsi-like devices, like SCSI devices, and IDE ones. To work for each system, it uses "plugins" which do low-level I/O. For now, the last linux scsi driver and the linux CDROM driver (instable) are supported, but plugins for others drivers, may be written easily.
- libburgnermmc: a more a less high level library, based on the libburgnerscsi, to manipulate CD burners.
- libburgnerisofs: a library to generate ISO9660 file-systems.
- burgner-mkisofs and burgner-cdrecord: little command-line
tools to generate ISO9660 file systems and burn them. See
burgner-cdrecord --help and burgner-mkisofs --help for more
informations.
- Usage
- to generate a ISO9660 image, type:
$ burgner-mkisofs [options] files... e.g. : $ burgner-mkisofs -r --cache-inodes --with-optimize --output image.iso --eltorito-media-image /path/to/boot_image --eltorito-bootable ~/Documents/*
- to burn it, type:
$ burgner-cdrecord -d file://linux-scsi-3/path/to/device --data <track> --eject --speed <speed> -v e.g. : $ burgner-cdrecord -d file://linux-scsi-3/dev/sg0 --data image.iso --eject --speed 48 -v
- to burn an audio CD, type:
$ burgner-cdrecord -d file://linux-scsi-3/path/to/device --audio wav_file_1.wav --audio wav_file_2.wav ... --audio wav_file_n.wav --eject --speed <speed> -v e.g. : $ burgner-cdrecord -d file://linux-scsi-3/dev/sg0 --audio track01.wav --audio track02.wav --eject --speed 48 -v
Temporary solutions:
- to blank a disc, type:
$ burgner-scsi-test -d file://linux-scsi-3/path/to/device --blank <blank_type> e.g. : $ burgner-scsi-test -d file://linux-scsi-3/dev/sg0 --blank minimal Note: this only send a 'BLANK' command to the drive, so the disc must be inserted, and this may not work immediatly (you may have to run the command a second time for the blanking to begin).
- to list available devices, type:
$ burgner-scsi-test --list-all-devices
- to burn a CD-EXTRA, burn your audio tracks first, allowing a
next session:
$ burgner-cdrecord -d file://linux-scsi-3/dev/?? --audio track01.wav --audio track02.wav --eject --speed 48 --session allow_next -v
+ then get the Next Writable Address (NWA):
$ burgner-scsi-test -d file://linux-scsi-3/dev/??
--get-nwa
This will give you a number (the NWA) alone in a line.
+ generate your data image, giving burgner-mkisofs the NWA with
the --first-sector-lba option:
$ burgner-mkisofs [ your options ... ]
--first-sector-address [NWA]
+ That's all!
Future: Unfortunately, I won't have enough time to maintain Burgner from the beginning of September. So I am looking for new maintainers/coders for Burgner, and will try to make Burgner a GNU project. Nevertheless I will be able to answer new maintainers' questions.
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Burgner homepage: http://burgner.tuxfamily.org E-Mail: burgner AT tuxfamily DOT org