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See README.libcdio for installation instructions.
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The libcdio package contains a library for CD-ROM and CD image
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access. Applications wishing to be oblivious of the OS- and
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device-dependent properties of a CD-ROM or of the specific details of
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various CD-image formats may benefit from using this library.
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A library for working with ISO-9660 filesystems libiso9660 is
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included. A generic interface for issuing MMC (multimedia commands) is
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also part of the libcdio library.
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Also included is a library for working with ISO-9660 filesystems as is
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also the CD-DA error/jitter correction library from cdparanoia
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(http://www.xiph.org/paranoia).
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Some support for disk image types like CDRWin's BIN/CUE format,
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cdrdao's TOC format, and Nero's NRG format are available. Therefore,
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applications that use this library also have the ability to read disc
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images as though they were CD's.
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The library is written in C, however there are OO C++, Perl, Python
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and Ruby wrappers to interface to the library. However C++ is the only
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one that is bundled with this package, and the interfaces provide only
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a subset of the full features of the library.
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Also included in the libcdio package are a number of utility programs:
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* cd-info - displays CD information: number of tracks, CD-format and
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if possible basic information about the format. If libcddb
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(http://libcddb.sourceforge.net) is available, the cd-info
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program will display CDDB matches on CD-DA discs. And if a
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new enough version of libvcdinfo is available (from the
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vcdimager project), then cd-info shows basic VCD information.
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* cd-read - performs low-level block reading of a CD or CD image,
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* iso-info - displays ISO-9660 information from an ISO-9660 image,
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* iso-read - extracting files from an ISO-9660 image, a version of the
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CD-DA extraction tool cdparanoia which corrects for
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CD-ROM jitter, and a simple curses-based CD player,
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cdda-player using the analog CD-ROM output.
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* cd-paranoia - port of cdparanoia (CD-DA jitter and error correction)
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using libcdio back-end CD-reading.
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At present, there is no support for writing CD's, nor is there any
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support for reading or writing DVDs. For some of these, there are
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other libraries (e.g. libdi, libscg, or libdvdread) may be helpful.
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Some of the projects using libcdio are the Video CD authoring and
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ripping tools VCDImager (http://vcdimager.org), a navigation-capable
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Video CD plugin and CD-DA plugins for the media players xine
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(http://xinehq.de), videolan's vlc (http://videolan.org), media
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players mplayerxp (http://mplayerxp.sourceforge.net/) and gmerlin
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(http://gmerlin.sourceforge.net), kiso, a KDE GUI for creating,
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extracting and editing ISO-9600 images (http://kiso.sourceforge.net),
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and a Samba vfs module that allows exporting a CD without mounting it
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(http://ontologistics.net/OpenSource/Samba/index.php).
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$Id: README,v 1.13 2006/03/28 14:48:44 rocky Exp $
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