cdrtools
cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs/DVDs with a CDR/CDRW/DVD recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD/DVD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD/DVD writers.
| Tags | Software Distribution Archiving multimedia Sound/Audio CD Audio CD Writing CD Ripping Boot |
|---|---|
| Licenses | CDDL |
| Operating Systems | Windows Windows OS/2 POSIX Mac OS X |
Recent releases
- 06 Jul 2009 15:27
Changes: Support for 64-bit compilation on Mac OS X was added. Some workarounds were added to cdda2wav for Solaris USB driver bugs. The mkisofs manual now prints correctly with GNU troff. Isoinfo now allows automated processing of the output even if the time stamps on the medium contain illegal months.
- 21 May 2009 18:40
Changes: This release adds a workaround against Linux distributions that cause incorrect autoconf results for fexecl() and similar functions. It fixes some small bugs that prevented compilation on BeOS. Cdrecord now suppresses errors when a drive does not support the SCSI command read format capacities. Mkisofs now correctly handles the errctl=WARN feature.
- 30 Apr 2009 08:30
Changes: A workaround for a firmware bug with DVD+R media in the HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22NP20 1.02 drive was added. cddawav now supports "host" byte order with -output-endianess. Some copyright messages that no longer apply were removed. -D_GNU_SOURCE was added to the standard include flags for Linux in order to un-hide needed extensions. A new autoconf test that checks for the differences between the original iconv() implementation from Sun and the deviating POSIX standard was added.
- 09 Mar 2009 18:22
Changes: Support for Syllable OS was added. Support for Haiku (BeOS clone) was added. Cdda2wav now correctly behaves with -no-infofile and md5sums. Mkisofs now correctly handles symlink target names with Rock Ridge.
- 02 Feb 2009 14:20
Changes: The ATARI ST (FreeMiNT) support is now complete. Do not install by overwriting /etc/default/cdrecord in case an earlier file exists. Cdda2wav now correctly deals with longer CD-Text information. Cdda2wav now correctly works in 64 bit mode.
- All comments
Recent commentsv2.01.01a61. Still "alpha". :(
Re: still crap on linux
Correct: there is no official support for deprecated
addressing methods, because there is no need for it and because the official addressing method is more user friendly.
The method implemented by libscg has the clear advantage to support SATA drives out of the box.
Other software that uses different addressing
methods has a higher failure rate after the usual
Linux interface changes.
still crap on linux
still no support for /dev accessing
jorg is still being paid by sun
still a pain in the ass
Re: CDRTools under windows - enumerate system DVD drives
Good tip, thanks!
Re: CDRTools under windows - enumerate system DVD drives
> However is
> there anyway to get the stupid Windows
> drive letter for the optical drives (D:.
> E:, etc.)? Maybe from the SCSI bus
> address?
What about Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Disk Management? There you can change drive letter.