00001 /** 00002 @author Mario Danic, Thomas Schmitt 00003 00004 @mainpage Libburn Documentation Index 00005 00006 @section intro Introduction 00007 00008 Libburn is an open-source library for reading, mastering and writing 00009 optical discs. For now this means only CD-R and CD-RW. 00010 00011 The project comprises of several more or less interdependent parts which 00012 together strive to be a usable foundation for application development. 00013 These are libraries, language bindings, and middleware binaries which emulate 00014 classical (and valuable) Linux tools. 00015 00016 Our scope is currently Linux 2.4 and 2.6 only. For ports to other systems 00017 we would need : login on a development machine resp. a live OS on CD or DVD, 00018 advise from a system person about the equivalent of Linux sg or FreeBSD CAM, 00019 volunteers for testing of realistic use cases. 00020 00021 We do have a workable code base for burning data CDs, though. The burn API is 00022 quite comprehensively documented and can be used to build a presentable 00023 application. 00024 We do have a functional binary which emulates parts of cdrecord in order to 00025 prove that usability, and in order to allow you to explore libburn's scope 00026 by help of existing cdrecord frontends. 00027 00028 @subsection components The project components (list subject to growth, hopefully): 00029 00030 - libburn is the library by which preformatted data get onto optical media. 00031 It uses either /dev/sgN (e.g. on kernel 2.4 with ide-scsi) or 00032 /dev/hdX (e.g. on kernel 2.6). 00033 libburn is the foundation of our cdrecord emulation. 00034 00035 - libisofs is the library to pack up hard disk files and directories into a 00036 ISO 9660 disk image. This may then be brought to CD via libburn. 00037 libisofs is to be the foundation of our upcoming mkisofs emulation. 00038 00039 - cdrskin is a limited cdrecord compatibility wrapper for libburn. 00040 cdrecord is a powerful GPL'ed burn program included in Joerg 00041 Schilling's cdrtools. cdrskin strives to be a second source for 00042 the services traditionally provided by cdrecord. 00043 cdrskin does not contain any bytes copied from cdrecord's sources. 00044 Many bytes have been copied from the message output of cdrecord 00045 runs, though. 00046 See cdrskin/README for more. 00047 00048 - "test" is a collection of application gestures and examples given by the 00049 authors of the library features. The main API example of libburn 00050 is named test/libburner.c . 00051 Explore these examples if you look for inspiration. 00052 00053 We plan to be a responsive upstream. Bear with us. 00054 00055 00056 @section using Using the libraries 00057 00058 Our build system is based on autotools. 00059 User experience tells us that you will need at least autotools version 1.7. 00060 00061 To build libburn and its subprojects it should be sufficient to go into 00062 its toplevel directory and execute 00063 00064 - ./bootstrap (needed if you downloaded from SVN) 00065 00066 - ./configure 00067 00068 - make 00069 00070 To make the libraries accessible for running resp. developing applications 00071 00072 - make install 00073 00074 Both libraries are written in C language and get built by autotools. 00075 Thus we expect them to be useable by a wide range of Linux-implemented 00076 languages and development tools. 00077 00078 00079 @section libburner Libburner 00080 00081 libburner is a minimal demo application for the library libburn 00082 (see: libburn/libburn.h) as provided on http://libburn.pykix.org . 00083 It can list the available devices, can blank a CD-RW and 00084 can burn to CD-R or CD-RW. 00085 00086 It's main purpose, nevertheless, is to show you how to use libburn and also 00087 to serve the libburn team as reference application. libburner does indeed 00088 define the standard way how above three gestures can be implemented and 00089 stay upward compatible for a good while. 00090 00091 @subsection libburner-help Libburner --help 00092 <pre> 00093 Usage: test/libburner 00094 [--drive <address>|<driveno>|"-"] 00095 [--blank_fast|--blank_full] [--audio] 00096 [--try_to_simulate] [--stdin_size <bytes>] 00097 [<one or more imagefiles>|"-"] 00098 Examples 00099 A bus scan (needs rw-permissions to see a drive): 00100 test/libburner --drive - 00101 Burn a file to drive chosen by number: 00102 test/libburner --drive 0 my_image_file 00103 Burn a file to drive chosen by persistent address: 00104 test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc my_image_file 00105 Blank a used CD-RW (is combinable with burning in one run): 00106 test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc --blank_fast 00107 Burn two audio tracks 00108 lame --decode -t /path/to/track1.mp3 track1.cd 00109 test/dewav /path/to/track2.wav -o track2.cd 00110 test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc --audio track1.cd track2.cd 00111 Burn a compressed afio archive on-the-fly, pad up to 700 MB: 00112 ( cd my_directory ; find . -print | afio -oZ - ) | \ 00113 test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc --stdin_size 734003200 - 00114 To be read from *not mounted* CD via: afio -tvZ /dev/hdc 00115 Program tar would need a clean EOF which our padded CD cannot deliver. 00116 </pre> 00117 00118 @subsection libburner-source Sourceode of libburner 00119 00120 Click on blue names of functions, structures, variables, etc in oder to 00121 get to the according specs of libburn API or libburner sourcecode. 00122 00123 */
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