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- | Xfburn is a simple CD/DVD burning tool based on [[http://www.libburnia-project.org|libburnia | + | * **[[# |
+ | * **[[#Audio CD support details|Audio CD support details]]** | ||
+ | * **[[# | ||
+ | * **[[# | ||
+ | * **[[#Future Plans|Future Plans]]** | ||
+ | * **[[# | ||
+ | * **[[#Latest Release|Latest Release]]** | ||
+ | * **[[#Source Code Repository|Source Code Repository]]** | ||
+ | * **[[# | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Introduction ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Xfburn is a simple CD/DVD/ | ||
- | The current version is **0.6.2**, released on 2020-03-07. This release fixes a number of smaller bugs and uses more modern libraries for improved compatibility with today' | ||
For more detailed information please have a look at the README or the NEWS file. | For more detailed information please have a look at the README or the NEWS file. | ||
- | * [[https:// | + | ---- |
- | * [[https:// | + | |
- | * **[[#Source Code Repository|Source Code Repository]]** | + | <figure " |
- | * **[[# | + | {{: |
+ | {{: | ||
+ | </ | ||
- | \\ | + | ---- |
- | \\ | + | |
- | {{: | + | |
- | ===== Download | + | ===== Functionality |
- | Sources: | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | We recommend to use a packaged version of Xfburn if it is available. Xfburn is packaged for several distributions, | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * Gentoo | + | |
- | * [[https:// | + | |
- | * ArchLinux | + | |
- | * Foresight Linux | + | |
- | And probably many more... | + | |
- | ===== Source code repository ===== | + | Xfburn is still a new program, and does not yet do all common burning related |
- | [[https:// | + | tasks. |
+ | |||
+ | Currently implemented is: | ||
+ | * Create data compositions | ||
+ | * Burn to CD, DVD, or BluRay (BD) | ||
+ | * Create ISO images | ||
+ | * Burn ISO images | ||
+ | * Create and burn audio CDs | ||
+ | * Blank discs | ||
+ | * Format and deformat DVD-RW discs | ||
+ | |||
+ | Xfburn has 3 write modes, which are Auto, TAO (Track-at-Once) and SAO (Session-at-Once). TAO records with the laser stopping after each track is finished and SAO allows the recording over multiple sessions, which will all be read by a computer drive, but CD equipment will only read the first session. At this time there is no multi-session support. ([[https:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | **BurnFree**, | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Stream Recording** disables error management for BD only, which increases | ||
+ | the burning speed. Using it seems to be the best option since discs with | ||
+ | errors tend to fail even when stream recording is disabled. | ||
---- | ---- | ||
- | ===== Reporting Bugs ===== | ||
- | * **[[: | ||
+ | ===== Audio CD support details ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | Included are two transcoders: | ||
+ | wav data, and gst (gstreamer), | ||
+ | gstreamer plugin is present. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== The basic transcoder ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Only CD-quality, uncompressed (PCM) Wave files can be added to an audio | ||
+ | compilation. Use i.e. your favority audio player with a disc writer output | ||
+ | mode / plugin to decompress your existing audio files. If .wav files are added | ||
+ | to the compilation, | ||
+ | right format. Note that this check is not very well tested (in particular it's | ||
+ | not likely to work on big-endian machines like PowerPC). It does not require | ||
+ | any external libraries | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== The gst transcoder ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Based on the gstreamer library, it can decode pretty much any audio content, | ||
+ | as long as you have the appropriate plugins installed. Note that by default | ||
+ | most distributions do _not_ install these plugins. But a simple search for | ||
+ | gstreamer plugins in your package manager should quickly allow you to install | ||
+ | them. | ||
+ | |||
+ | You can at startup switch between the transcoders, | ||
+ | for more information. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[|Back to Top]] | ||
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+ | ===== Required Packages ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * libisofs version 0.6.2 or newer | ||
+ | * libburn version 0.4.2 or newer | ||
+ | * WARNING: libburn 0.4.2 - 0.5.4 are API compatible, but might trigger an error in libburn' | ||
+ | RECOMMENDED is version 0.5.6 or newer, where the bug was fixed. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Optional, but highly recommended ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * gstreamer | ||
+ | * gstreamer pbutils (they usually come with gstreamer as far as I know) | ||
+ | * gstreamer plugins (look for the good, the bad and the ugly plugin pack, most likely you want all of these) | ||
+ | |||
+ | Let the **highly recommended** part be highlighted once more. Of course | ||
+ | gstreamer will not matter if you do not plan on burning audio CDs, but the | ||
+ | other two libraries will come in handy in almost all situations. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Optional, for maintenance ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * libxslt (for creating docs) | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | The author works with both hal and thunar-vfs enabled, so there might be the | ||
+ | occasional bug that breaks compilation without these components. Xfburn should | ||
+ | work without these optional components, but it is not well tested at all. | ||
+ | Should something not compile or work as expected, please report a bug, and it | ||
+ | will get fixed. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[|Back to Top]] | ||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Debugging ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | If xfburn crashes, freezes, or somehow makes no progress for you, then you can | ||
+ | help greatly in debugging the problem. It does require you to build xfburn from | ||
+ | the sources, and to install gdb. If you can handle that, here are the exact | ||
+ | instructions: | ||
+ | |||
+ | 1. Rebuild xfburn with debugging support - grab the sources, and run (you can update | ||
+ | `-j4` to match your core count): | ||
+ | ``` | ||
+ | $ autoconf | ||
+ | $ ./configure && make clean all -j4 | ||
+ | ``` | ||
+ | 2. Enable core dumps, then run xfburn until it hangs, or crashes: | ||
+ | ``` | ||
+ | $ ulimit -c unlimited; xfburn/ | ||
+ | ``` | ||
+ | 3. From another terminal, kill xfburn (only if it hasn't crashed already, of coures) | ||
+ | ``` | ||
+ | $ kill -SEGV `pidof xfburn` | ||
+ | ``` | ||
+ | 4. Get a backtrace from the coredump: | ||
+ | ``` | ||
+ | $ gdb xfburn/ | ||
+ | ``` | ||
+ | (Note that sometimes the core.xxxxxx file is just called core, and that 32270 is | ||
+ | just an arbitrary number which was the process id - yours will be different) | ||
+ | 5. Open up a bug report at our [[: | ||
+ | both the xfburn.output and the xfburn.backtrace files to it. Done! | ||
+ | There is no need to attach the core dump, as it is heavily system dependent. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[|Back to Top]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Future Plans ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Missing functionality that would be nice to have: | ||
+ | * Save and load compositions ([[https:// | ||
+ | * Verification ([[https:// | ||
+ | * Copy discs (needs backend support) ([[https:// | ||
+ | * Automatic checksum creation | ||
+ | * Plugin support | ||
+ | * Multi-session support ([[https:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | There is no, and never will be, a timeline for these. Let us know if you think | ||
+ | something is missing on this list. If you really need something implemented, | ||
+ | feel free to help us out :-). | ||
+ | |||
+ | At present development is in maintenance mode, as the author does not have a | ||
+ | lot of time. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
===== Authors ===== | ===== Authors ===== | ||
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* Rene Kjellerup [rk.katana.steel at gmail.com] | * Rene Kjellerup [rk.katana.steel at gmail.com] | ||
+ | [[|Back to Top]] | ||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Latest Release ===== | ||
+ | {{rss> | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[https:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | We recommend to use a packaged version of Xfburn if it is available. Xfburn is packaged for several distributions, | ||
+ | * [[http:// | ||
+ | * Gentoo | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
+ | * ArchLinux | ||
+ | * Foresight Linux | ||
+ | And probably many more... | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[|Back to Top]] | ||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Source Code Repository ===== | ||
+ | [[https:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | ===== Reporting Bugs ===== | ||
+ | * **[[: | ||
+ | |||
+ | Any comments are welcome! We aim to make xfburn a very easily usable program. | ||
+ | So if you think something could be implemented differently, | ||
+ | up and it will be considered. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
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