NEW features of cdrtools-2.01a11:

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.

	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:

-	Extensions to libscg related include files to support DVD+RW formating

Rscsi:

Cdrecord:

-	Grace time handling restructured. The grate time waiting is now done 
	even before the forced blanking and it is made sure that the waiting
	is done only once.

-	Several changes in the open source part are visible as a result of the
	new DVD+RW / DVD+R support.

-	cdrecord-ProDVD now includes first DVD+RW and DVD+R support.
	Check ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ 
	on thursday 24.4.2002 for the first binaries

-	Do not try to lower the possible number of open files in raise_fdlim()
	anymore.

-	Check return code of driver's init function.

-	Better error messages from main write loop.

-	Write a hint that a user may have used a "preformatted" CD-RW if 
	read_next_writable_address fails for the "invisible" track
	and tell him to run cdrecord blank=....

-	Fixed a bug that caused cdrecord to prevent a 3rd session on a
	multi session disk. This bug was introduced with the driver
	restructuring a few releases before.

-	Better driver text strings for the driver IDs in the CD MMC drivers.

-	Move Plextor PowerRec speed info completely to the statistics _past_
	the recording activities.

-	Allow more nonstandard Cue sheets to be accepted by the Sony CDU-924
	and CDU-948.

-	Implement MMC-3 DVD+ Drive/Media recognition to avoid that cdrecord starts
	to treat a DVD+ as a CD-R because the DVD+ drive identifies as CD-R/RW + DVD-ROM
	with "no DVD media installed" from a MMC-2 viewpoint.

-	Added a note to the cdrecord man page how to use mkisofs
	to allow cdrecord to knoe about track sizes in SAO or RAW mode.

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


Readcd:

Scgcheck:

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

-	Create XA "CD-XA001" signature in PVD with -XA or -xa

	In the first phase of the implementation you need to specify -R in
	addition to -XA or -xa or no XA signatures will be written.

-	Removed a debug statement that has been introduced to implement
	support for filees >= 2GB.


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.

	-	implement Yellow book compliant XA extended dir attributes

	-	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
