NEW features of cdrtools-2.01a14:

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 *********************************

NOTICE: for supporting the CW-7501 and for supporting SAO/DAO with the
	Sony CDU-920, Sony CDU-924, Sony CDU-948, the driver interface has
	been modified.  This change did affect more than 3000 lines of code.
	The new driver interface again is more simple and more extendable than
	the old one, but the change may affect -dummy and -multi writing for
	any other drive. Please test if the change did not introduce new bugs.

	Also the change on the packet writing structures may affect packet writing.

	The changes for the DVD+ drive/media recognition may affect drive or
	media type recognition for any other drive.

	The changes for DVD+RW & DVD+R media support may cause cdrecod to fail 
	in other circumstances.

	With cdrecord-2.01a13, the track parsing has been completely rearranged
	in order to support new features in the future. This causes a high risk
	for bugs.

	Please test.

All:

Libparanoia (Ported by Jörg Schilling, originated by Monty xiphmont@mit.edu):

Libedc (Optimized by Jörg Schilling, originated by Heiko Eißfeldt heiko@hexco.de):

Libscg:

-	Fixed a problem with possible garbage in the SCSI error string.
	Thanks to Stefano Di Paola <stefano.dipaola1@tin.it> for reporting.

Rscsi:

Cdrecord:

-	New option -abort allows you to send a write abort sequence to a drive.
	This may help if other software did leave the drive in an unusable
	condition.

-	New 'xio' module allows to open a file virtually more than once to
	support CDRWIN CUE sheets in cdrecord.

-	Run Plextor Speedinfo SCSI command in silent mode as old Plextor drives
	do not support this command.

-	Workaround for a Plextor (Premium only???) firmware bug that may result
	in a B0 pointer A5:A5:A5 instead of FF:FF:FF.

	This made it impossible to blank a freshly written CD-RW witout reloading
	the media. Now cdrecord does not check the disk size anymore if the number
	of trakcs to be written is 0.

-	First CDRWIN CUE sheet support.

	Cdrecord currently supports what is in the CUE sheet cescription in
	the CDRWIN documentation (with a few exceptions). Note that the
	examples in the rest of the CDRWIN man page are mostly illegal 
	if you compare them against the CDRWIN CUE sheet syntax documentation.

	These exceptions are currently in effect:

	-	Only one FILE Line per CUE sheet file (This is compliant to the
		CUE shet format documentation although the examples show CUE
		files with more than one FILE line). NOTE that the CUE syntax has
		been ill defined so that it would not make sense to e.g. use
		more than one FILE line for audio CDs.

	-	The AIFF File type is not implemented (because I have no documentation
		for this audio file format).

	-	The MP3 File type is not yet implemented.

	-	The CDG data type keyword will not yet work

	-	The CDI data type keyword will not yet work

	-	Only a sector size of 2048 will work with MODE1

	-	Sectors with sector size 2336 will not yet work

	-	POSTGAP will not yet work.

	Note that the CDRWIN CUE documentation is bad and it is unclear how
	formless (non XA) MODE 2 sectors should be made.
	
	CDI is not a sector/track property but a disk property.

	The File type BINARY vs. MOTOROLA is unclear.

	To use the cue sheet feature call:

		cdrecord dev=.... -v -dao cuefile=xx.cue

	The main reason for implementing CUE sheet support was to allow to
	write VCD/SVCD with cdrecord. It has currently tested with the
	test SVCD from ftp://ftp.vcdimager.org/pub/vcdimager/examples/test_svcd/

	Cdrecord should allow to write audio type CUE sheet based CDs also.


Cdda2wav (By Heiko Eißfeldt heiko@hexco.de):


Readcd:

Scgcheck:

Mkisofs (By Jörg Schilling and James Pearson j.pearson@ge.ucl.ac.uk):

-	Fixed a bug in the Rock Ridge symlink handling with Continuation records
	triggered by '/../' filename components.
	Thanks to jmmikkel@bbn.com (Joanne M Mikkelson)
	for the fix.


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 <berendi2@webdesign.hu> 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" <nameless@mail.datanet.hu>
		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.

	-	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.

Joerg
