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The libcdio package contains a library which encapsulates CD-ROM
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reading and control. Applications wishing to be oblivious of the OS-
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and device-dependent properties of a CD-ROM can use this 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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Projects using libcdio are the Video CD authoring and ripping tools
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VCDImager (http://vcdimager.org), a navigation-capable Video CD plugin
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and CD-DA plugins for the media players xine (http://xinehq.de),
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videolan's vlc (http://videolan.org), media players mplayerxp
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(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
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it (http://ontologistics.net/OpenSource/Samba/index.php).
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Also included in the libcdio package is a utility program cd-info which
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displays CD information: number of tracks, CD-format and if possible
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basic information about the format. If libcddb
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(http://libcddb.sourceforge.net) is available, the cd-info program
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will display CDDB matches on CD-DA discs. And if a new enough version
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of libvcdinfo is available (from the vcdimager project), then cd-info
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shows basic VCD information.
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Other utility programs in the libcdio package are cd-read, for
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performing low-level block reading of a CD or CD image, iso-info for
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displaying ISO-9660 information from an ISO-9660 image, iso-read for
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extracting files from an ISO-9660 image, a version of the CD-DA
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extraction tool cdparanoia which corrects for CD-ROM jitter, and a
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simple curses-based CD player, cdda-player using the analog CD-ROM
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output.
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At present, there is no support for writing CD's, reading UDF format;
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nor is there any support for reading or writing DVDs. For some of
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these, there are other libraries (e.g. libdi, libscg, or libdvdread)
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may be helpful.
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I'm not theoretically opposed to putting support such as UDF into
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libcdio. (Any volunteers?) However at present there are already many
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gaps in this library so narrowing its scope in order to focus on these
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things I think is a good idea.
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$Id: README,v 1.9 2005/07/10 14:13:03 rocky Exp $
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