Welcome to libburnia project
News
* Sun Jan 04 2009 A new version 0.6.0 of libburn /cdrskin is ready on releases page. It allows to format BD-R media, to write to formatted ones and to unformatted ones.
* Tue Dec 09 2008 Our project received a donation from Thomas Weber. It will be used to buy test hardware for libburn.
* Tue Dec 02 2008 libisoburn is released as version 0.3.0. xorriso now is ready for exotic character sets, for legacy FreeBSD systems which expect an outdated Rock Ridge signature, and for producing ISO images with MBR which boot from hard disk or USB stick. Three minor bugs were fixed.
* Wed Nov 26 2008 Version 0.6.12 of libisofs can produce a ISOLINUX isohybrid MBR on the fly and allows to produce ISO images which resemble old mkisofs images. Visit releases page for more information.
ABOUT
libburnia is a project for reading, mastering and writing optical discs. Currently it is comprised of libraries named libisofs, libburn, libisoburn, a cdrecord emulator named cdrskin, and an integrated multi-session tool named xorriso. The software runs on Linux and FreeBSD.
LICENCE
The source code for the libburnia project is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
SOURCE CODE
The current release tarballs are available at Releases Page.
The project lives in part in a subversion repository hosted on http://svn.libburnia-project.org and in part in a bzr repository hosted at launchpad. You can check-out the latest versions using:
svn co http://svn.libburnia-project.org/libburn/trunk libburn bzr branch lp:libisofs svn co http://svn.libburnia-project.org/libisoburn/trunk libisoburn
For building the libraries and binaries you will need autotools of at least version 1.7.
CONTRIBUTION
We welcome any sorts of contribution. If you would like to contribute to libburnia project development, please consider to post patches for discussion to our ticket system. You are encouraged to read our development guide before contributing/submiting patches. Please use your e-mail address when using ticket system unless you have a trac account.
MAILING LISTS
We run mailing lists for various purposes.
libburn-hackers - Our primary list for general development discussion. Feel free to ask for support here.
libburn-cutters - A list for people who use cd burning/mastering software which use libburn. For general cd burning discussion go here. Feel free to post ideas for discussion here too.
libburn-announcements - Low-traffic announcement list. Read-only list. Subscribe if you're a packager/maintainer.
libburn-tickets All the ticket (aka bug) activity is forwarded here. Read-only list. Primarly meant for developers.
IRC
Libburnia developers can be reached on #libburn channel on Freenode.
DOCUMENTATION
API Documentation - Libburn - C API - introduction
API Documentation - Libisofs - C API - introduction
API Documentation - Libisoburn - C API - introduction
README (from SVN) - toplevel README
DONATIONS
Any donations made to the libburnia project would greatly assist its progress by helping us to acquire drives and media. If you would like to donate, please mail us: mario [at] libburnia-project [dot] org, Cc: scdbackup [at] gmx [dot] net.
DEVELOPERS
Mario Đanić - mario [at] libburnia-project [dot] org - Founder & developer
Vreixo Formoso Lopes - metalpain2002 [at] yahoo [dot] - developer
Thomas Schmitt - scdbackup [at] gmx [dot] net - developer
