The project comprises of several more or less interdependent parts which together strive to be a usable foundation for application development. These are libraries, language bindings, and middleware binaries which emulate classical (and valuable) Linux tools.
Our scope is currently Linux 2.4 and 2.6 only. For ports to other systems we would need : login on a development machine resp. a live OS on CD or DVD, advise from a system person about the equivalent of Linux sg or FreeBSD CAM, volunteers for testing of realistic use cases.
We do have a workable code base for burning data CDs, though. The burn API is quite comprehensively documented and can be used to build a presentable application. We do have a functional binary which emulates parts of cdrecord in order to prove that usability, and in order to allow you to explore libburn's scope by help of existing cdrecord frontends.
We plan to be a responsive upstream. Bear with us.
To build libburn and its subprojects it should be sufficient to go into its toplevel directory and execute
To make the libraries accessible for running resp. developing applications
Both libraries are written in C language and get built by autotools. Thus we expect them to be useable by a wide range of Linux-implemented languages and development tools.
It's main purpose, nevertheless, is to show you how to use libburn and also to serve the libburn team as reference application. libburner does indeed define the standard way how above three gestures can be implemented and stay upward compatible for a good while.
Usage: test/libburner [--drive <address>|<driveno>|"-"] [--blank_fast|--blank_full] [--audio] [--try_to_simulate] [--stdin_size <bytes>] [<one or="" more="" imagefiles>="">|"-"] Examples A bus scan (needs rw-permissions to see a drive): test/libburner --drive - Burn a file to drive chosen by number: test/libburner --drive 0 my_image_file Burn a file to drive chosen by persistent address: test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc my_image_file Blank a used CD-RW (is combinable with burning in one run): test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc --blank_fast Burn two audio tracks lame --decode -t /path/to/track1.mp3 track1.cd test/dewav /path/to/track2.wav -o track2.cd test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc --audio track1.cd track2.cd Burn a compressed afio archive on-the-fly, pad up to 700 MB: ( cd my_directory ; find . -print | afio -oZ - ) | \ test/libburner --drive /dev/hdc --stdin_size 734003200 - To be read from *not mounted* CD via: afio -tvZ /dev/hdc Program tar would need a clean EOF which our padded CD cannot deliver.