libburnia

libburnia

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Developer(s)	Mario Đanić, Vreixo Formoso Lopes, Thomas Schmitt
Stable release	1.4.2
Written in	C, Unix Shell
Operating system	FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, Solaris
Type	Optical disc operations
License	GPL
Website	libburnia-project.org

libburnia is a free software library and collection of command-line interface (CLI) for burning CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray media.

Libburnia overview

Libburnia is the name of a project to develop various pieces of disk recording software.

• libburn is the underlying programming library. It is used by xorriso, cdrskin and 3rd party disk recording applications can also use this library directly.
• libisofs is the library to create or modify ISO 9660 disk images.
• 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.
• cdrskin is the end-user application of libburnia. It is CLI-only and its syntax is mostly identical to cdrecord to act as a drop-in replacement for existing front-ends.

Xorriso

Xorriso stands for X/Open, Rock Ridge ISO 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.

It provides a command-line interface for single operations as well as GNU Readline and Dialog-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 Xubuntu 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 cdrecord and wodim, and can be used in place of the aforementioned tool in GUI front-ends such as K3b.

History

The first public release of libburnia, libburn-0.2.2, was in September 2006. The current version is 1.4.2, which was released in November 2015.

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[W] (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.

See also

• cdrkit
• cdrtools
• dvd+rw-tools

External links

• Official website
• Man page