Libburnia

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Libburnia is a project that develops a collection of libraries and command-line tools for burning CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray media.

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Project overview

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

GNU 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.

xorriso copies file objects from POSIX compliant filesystems into Rock Ridge enhanced ISO 9660 filesystems and allows session-wise manipulation of such filesystems. It can load the management information of existing ISO images and it writes the session results to optical media or to filesystem objects. Vice versa xorriso is able to copy file objects out of ISO 9660 filesystems. [2]

It provides a command-line interface for single operations as well as GNU Readline and Dialog-based interfaces.

Uses

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Image of the Brasero burning application

History

The first public release (libburn-0.2.2) was in September 2006.

The current stable version is 1.5.4, which was released on January 30, 2021.

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References

  1. cdrskin README file
  2. "GNU xorriso - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation".
  3. Xfburn website Archived 2012-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Xubuntu 10.10 release information Archived 2011-06-03 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Brasero website
  6. FlBurn website
  7. "K3b - Community Help Wiki".
  8. "Ubuntu Manpage: Cdrskin - burns preformatted data to CD, DVD, and BD via libburn". Archived from the original on 2016-02-20. Retrieved 2015-11-25.