I hope that if I give you some candy, I will get some test results...


NEW features of cdrtools-1.11a04:

***************** Please Test *********************************

NOTE:   There are 3000 new lines of code and aprox. 1500 lines of code did change
        within the last few weeks.

        Although I thoroughly tested every line of my code, there may be bugs...

        Please report if you have any problem that is not present with 
cdrtools-1.11a01.

************** Latest 'stable' alpha: 1.11a01 ******************

All:

Libscg:

Rscsi:

Cdrecord:

-       add a forgotten if (xdebug) in drv_mmc.c.
        This caused a superfluous write mode debug message to be printed

-       do installation of exit handlers (to reset SCSI state) earlier

-       Cdrecord now does not exit with 0 anymore when interrupted with ^C
        during the waittime before starting to write.

-       First CD-Text support (can only copy CD-Text information from master
        disk)

        Usage:

        cdda2wav -D 6,0 -v255 -B        # To extract audio information
        cdrecord dev=6,0 -vv -toc       # To extract CD-Text information

        and then

        cdrecord dev=6,0 -v -dao textfile=cdtext.dat -useinfo *.wav
        or
        cdrecord dev=6,0 -v -raw96r textfile=cdtext.dat -useinfo *.wav

        If the CD-Text information contains CRC errors, you need to
        re-read the CD-Text information from the master disk.

        Writing of CD-Text is supported for all drives that support
        CD-Text in SAO write mode and for all drives that support
        to write in RAW/RAW96R mode (use -raw96r in this case).


***********************************************************************
        Tips for MMC RAW mode writing.

        This allows to do disk at once recording on Philips drives that
        do not support SAO.

        You may write audio tracks in RAW mode. There are some new
        and most likely transient options:

        -raw16          Write 2352 Bytes sectors + P+Q Subchannel

        -raw96r         Write 2352 Bytes sectors + P+W Subchannel (R-W in raw mode)

        -raw96p         Write 2352 Bytes sectors + P+W Subchannel (R-W in packed mode)

        Indices are fully supported in RAW mode.

        MCN & ISRC are not yet suported in RAW mode, they are silently discarded.

        If you find other problems in RAW mode or if you find
        new bugs introduced in old write modes, please send a bug report.

        Cdrecord now checks the properties of the writer. If a specific write
        mode is not supported by the writer, cdrecord warns you and makes
        a suggestion for a similar alternate write mode.

        With the curent structure of cdrecord, it is not possible to silently
        e.g. change the write mode from -dao to -raw96r

        MMC compliant drives are automatically scanned for supported write modes.
        This should help to make cdrecord work without manual static configuration.
        My hope is still to have no need to know all drive properties in 
        advance, so new drives will continue to work as long as they
        are standard comliant enough for cdrecord.

EXAMPLES:

        cdrecord dev=1,0 -v -raw96r *.wav

        will write a audio CD in raw mode using (computed) 2448 byte sectors 
        with raw P-W subchannels. This works e.g. with Plextor drives.


        cdrecord dev=1,0 -v -raw16 *.wav

        will write a audio CD in raw mode using (computed) 2368 byte sectors 
        with raw P+Q subchannels. This works e.g. with Philips drives.


        NOTE: The input sector size always is 2352 bytes for audio.

IMPORTANT:

        -       if the drive supports RAW/R96R among with other raw write modes,
                use -raw96r

        -       if the drive does _only_ supports RAW/R16, use -raw16

        -       ... else if the drive supports RAW/R96P, use -raw96p

                The packed raw mode (RAW/R96P) is buggy in Plextor drives and
                the RAW/R16 mode is buggy in TEAC drives. Plextor creates
                unreadble disks and TEAC hangs the drive.

                For this reason, it is important to select the raw writing
                mode accoding to the notes above.

******************************************************************
        

Cdda2wav:

Readcd:

-       Handle signals and other aborts by restoring old drive state

-       Set PF bit with mode select.

-       New option -quiet to suppress primary SCSI error messages
        in read CD error handling
        This are the messages that are printed before entering the
        retry mode.

-       Secondary SCSI error messages are now suppressed by default,
        they may be turned on again with -verbose 
        This are the messages that are printed in -noerror
        retry mode.

Scgcheck:

Mkisofs:

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 100% correctly as there is no relation
                between the names on the master filesystem, the ISO-9660 names
                and the Joliet names. Only the Rock Ridge names are untranslated
                with respect to the origina files on the master filesystem.

        -       implement Yellow book compliant XA extended dir attributes

        -       add libecc/edc for CDI and similar.

        -       add UDF support

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.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/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.

Jörg

 EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
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