Libburnia is a project that develops a collection of

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and command-line tools for burning CDs,

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s and

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media.

Project overview

Libburnia is the name of a project to develop various pieces of disk recording software. * libisofs is the library to create or modify

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disk images. * libburn is the underlying programming library. It is used by xorriso, cdrskin and 3rd party disk recording applications can also use this library directly. * libisoburn is an add-on to libburn and libisofs which coordinates both and also allows to grow ISO 9660 filesystem images on multi-session and overwriteable media. * xorriso is a CLI application that creates, loads, manipulates and writes ISO 9660 filesystem images with Rock Ridge extensions. This package is part of the

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. * cdrskin is the

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application of libburnia. It is CLI-only and its syntax is mostly identical to

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to act as a drop-in replacement for existing front-ends.cdrskin README file
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GNU xorriso

Xorriso stands for

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, Rock Ridge

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and is the main command-line tool included with libburnia. It allows both generation and (to some extent) update of image files as well as burning images to the disk.

xorriso copies file objects from POSIX compliant filesystems into Rock Ridge enhanced ISO 9660 filesystems and allows session-wise manipulation of such filesystems. It can load the management information of existing ISO images and it writes the session results to optical media or to filesystem objects. Vice versa xorriso is able to copy file objects out of ISO 9660 filesystems.

It provides a command-line interface for single operations as well as GNU Readline and

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-based interfaces.

Uses

* The underlying ''libburn'' library is used directly as sole recording back-end for Xfce’s graphical ''Xfburn'' application which is included in the default installation of

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since version 10.10. * GNOME's default disk recording application, Brasero, can use ''libburn'' directly without relying on ''cdrecord'' compatibility of ''cdrskin''. * ''FlBurn'' is a FLTK application that uses ''libburn'' directly. * cdrskin is similar to

and

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, and can be used in place of the aforementioned tool in GUI front-ends such as '' K3b''.

History

The first public release (libburn-0.2.2) was in September 2006. The current stable version is 1.5.4, which was released on January 30, 2021.

Features

* Blanking/formatting of CD-RW DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, BD * Burning of data or audio tracks to CD, either in versatile Track-at-Once mode (TAO) or in Session-at-Once mode for seamless tracks. * Multi-session on CD (follow-up sessions in TAO only) or on DVD-R (in Incremental mode) or on DVD+R. * Single session on DVD-RW or DVD-R (Disk-at-once) or on over-writable DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, BD-RE. * Bus scan, burn-free, speed options, retrieving media info, padding, fifo. * Works with SATA DVD drives. * Write access to disk images. * Use UNIX device path (/dev/hdX) on Linux * You do not need to be superuser for its daily usage.

References

External links

Official website

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