NEW features of cdrtools-1.11a37:
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:
- Allow to create Make Dependencies with HP-UX bundled C-compiler
- Allow to create Make Dependencies with AIX C-compiler
Warning: this creates foo.u files in the directory where the
Makefile is located
- Fixed the shell script that is used to create the dependency files
with the SCO C-compiler
- Fixed an sed script that is used to enhance the dependency files.
This script was only able to handle 'foo.o:' but not 'foo.o :'
- Several other small fixes with the autoconf system.
- Make strerror() caller in libschily POSIX compliant and follow
the strange semantics.
Libparanoia:
- Fixed a problem with alloca() that prevented compilation on AIX
Libedc:
- Changed to allow compilation on K&R compilers too
- Speed up by approx. 60-70%
Encoding speed is now:
- 20-30x on a P-233
- 100-140x on a Athlon 1000
Note that the encoding speed is content dependant.
Also note that due to a kernel design bug, Linux does not
enable DMA for ATAPI drives if the sector size is != 2048 (as
with RAW sector size 2448). This results in a high system load
and may cause a buffer underrun even before the estimated maximum
speed of the edc library has been reached.
Libscg:
- Support for recently defined new SCSI target types found in SCSI
standard.
Rscsi:
Cdrecord:
- Fixed man page to correctly call SAO mode SAO and not DAO.
- Move libedc speed printing into sector.c and let it print
more fine grained results.
- Encoding speed is contend dependant. Initalize test buffer
before doing a libedc speed test to make the result independant
from grabage on the stack.
/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
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 Eißfeldt [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
- Implement a temporary compatibility bug for the -v option.
Readcd:
- added new option -overhead to meter SCSI command execution overhead.
Scgcheck:
Mkisofs (By Jörg Schilling and James Pearson [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.
Jörg
EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg 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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