NEW features of cdrtools-1.11a35:
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
that itself is implemented as Open Source project.
***************** Important news ****************************
For the 'Slottable Source Plugin Module' SSPM Features read README.SSPM
***************** Please Test *********************************
There will soon be a new final release for cdrtools. Please do not send
new patches for new features before the final is out. Please note that
the DVD-Video patch was a big modification (it took a week for only cleanly
integrating the patch) so please test!
********** IMPORTANT:
In order to prepare a new major release, I now declare a feature freeze.
Only important Bug Fixes will be applied to the source until the next major
release has been published.
Since 1.11a35 all outstanding issues for cdrtools have been fixed if fixing
the bugs does not have the potential of introducing new bugs in unrelated parts.
After 1.11a35 only major bugs will be fixed
**********
All:
Libparanoia:
Libscg:
Rscsi:
Cdrecord:
- Added a note to Heiko Ei�feldt's libedc when printing RAW encoding speed
- Limit gracetime to 999 seconds and make output correct even for
times > 9 seconds.
- Corrected a bug in the MMC driver that caused cdrecord to use the
wrong place for current speed when doing MMC/MMC-3 dependant stuff
- cdrecord -prcap will now use the same format for MMC & MMC-3 drives
rsulting in a better readability.
- Don't print write time statistics if writing did not yet start
- Try to handle drives that don't support to write at speed 1 but
will fail if you try to call cdrecord speed=1 ...
- New option -immed tells cdrecord to set the SCSI "IMMED" flag in certain
commands.
This option is not needed if your PC has been configured correctly.
However, ATAPI drives usually cannnot do disconnect/reconnect.
As a result, the PC may hang with long lasting commands if the CD-writer
has been connected to the same IDE cable as the harddisk. A correct
solution would be to set up a correct cabling but there seem to be
notebooks around that have been set up the wrong way by the manufacturer.
As it is impossible to fix this problem in notebooks, -immed has been
added. Use this option with care and do not expect cdrecord to work
correctly if it has been called with -immed.
- -force will not completely removeany speed restrictions for writing in RAW
mode. Instead, only the speed that a single CPU allows will be permitted
by cdrecord. This still has a high potential for a buffer underrun.
By default cdrecord still is limited to half the encoding speed that
a single CPU allows. Even this may result in a buffer underrun on Linux
as Linux does not use DMA for IDE when the sector size is != 2048 bytes
which is true in RAW write mode.
- If the environment variable "CDR_FORCERAWSPEED" is set, this will have
the same results for RAW speed as using -force. However, -force has more
general effects and should be avoided.
/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
New driveropts= option "tattoofile=". Use together with -checkrive
to write an image of the right size to disk.
DiskT@2 hints:
In order to have "DISKTATTOO" listed in the "Driver flags",
the disk currently inserted must be usable for the DiskT@2 feature.
This means that there needs to be enough space on it.
You need an B&W image with 3744 pixels per line
Best start with a 3744 x 320 pixel image.
The correct size may be retrieved with
cdrecord driveropts=tattooinfo -checkdrive
To get RAW image data:
- Take 'xv' and save the image in PBM/PGM/PPM (raw) mode
- use a binary aware (must support unlimited linelength)
editor such as 'ved' and remove the header lines.
These lines look like:
P5
# CREATOR: XV Version 3.10a Rev: 12/29/94 (PNG patch 1.2)
# CREATOR: XV Version 3.10a Rev: 12/29/94 (PNG patch 1.2)
3744 144
255
Now you sould have (in case of the file above) a file that
has exactly 539136 Bytes.
- Note that the tattoo image must be left to right flipped
(a mirror image).
>From a hint from "E. Robert Bogusta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Take an image, and do:
djpeg myface.jpg | ppmtopgm | pnmflip -lr |
pnmscale -xsi 3744 -ysi 320 | sed '1,/255/d' >myface.tattoo
So:
djpeg extracts ppm from a jpeg. Use your favorite other way of getting
this far is you wish.
ppmtopgm changes color to greyscale
pnmflip -lr flips left to right, the small image is faster
pnmscale makes it 3644x320 regardless of starting size. This may make it
look really odd on the CD if it doesn't start off the right size. More on
this after I try it.
sed strips from the first line to the line containing 255, which is the
last header line.
Note that it would be better to use the actual height of the applicable mage instead
of the maximum value of 320 and it wouild be even more correct to create an
image that has the right width/height ratio for the target on CD in order
get an undistorted view of the mage n CD.
/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
For CD-text Autoring support read README.cdtext
CD-text TODO:
- Check whether the *.inf files are all from the same CD
and clear some CD-text fields that are only valid if
they relate to one CD only.
- Add some more fields (mainly a deficiency of cdda2wav)
- Support multi language text
- Support character coding other than ISO-8859-1
******************************************************************
NOTE: Read README.cdtext
NOTE: Read README.raw
******************************************************************
Cdda2wav (By Heiko Ei�feldt [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
o changed option 'speed-select' to 'speed' for better interoperability
Readcd:
Scgcheck:
Mkisofs (By J�rg Schilling and James Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
- A patch from James that make mkisofs able to create a HFS volume < 4 GB.
- Support for MS code page 1250 (Slavic/Central Europe) added.
Thanks to Petr Balas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
who also likes to do the job.
Note that this can never be 100% correct as there is no relation
between the names on the master (UNIX) filesystem, the ISO-9660
names and the Joliet names. Only the Rock Ridge names are
untranslated with respect to the original files on the
master (UNIX) filesystem.
- implement Yellow book compliant XA extended dir attributes
- add libecc/edc for CDI and similar.
This may not be needed if we ise VCDimager and recent
cdrecord versions.
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.berlios.de/pub/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.
J�rg
EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) J�rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) chars I am J"org Schilling
URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix
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