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xfburn
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Version 0.3.91, 2008-11-03

http://www.xfce.org/projects/xfburn/

An easy to use burning software for the xfce desktop environment (but of
course will work with others). It uses libburn and libisofs as a backend, in
difference to most other GUI programs at the moment. Visit
http://www.libburnia-project.org/ for more information about these libraries.

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Functionality
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xfburn is still a new program, and does not yet do all common burning related
tasks.

Currently implemented is:
 * Create data compositions
  - Burn to CD or DVD
  - Create ISO images
 * Burn ISO images
 * Blank discs
 * Format and deformat DVD-RW discs
 * Audio CD support

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Audio CD support details
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Included are two transcoders: basic, which just passes through uncompressed
wav data, and gst (gstreamer), which can decode any audio file for which a
gstreamer plugin is present.

The basic transcoder:
Only CD-quality, uncompressed (PCM) Wave files can be added to an audio
compilation. Use i.e.  your favority audio player with a disc writer output
mode / plugin to decompress your existing audio files. If .wav files are added
to the compilation, their headers get checked to make sure they are of the
right format. Note that this check is not very well tested (in particular it's
not likely to work on big-endian machines like PowerPC). It does not require
any external libraries

The gst transcoder:
Based on the gstreamer library, it can decode pretty much any audio content,
as long as you have the appropriate plugins installed. Note that by default
most distributions do _not_ install these plugins. But a simple search for
gstreamer plugins in your package manager should quickly allow you to install
them.

You can at startup switch between the transcoders, see the command line help
for more information.

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Requirements
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 * libisofs version 0.6.2 or newer
 * libburn version 0.4.2 or newer

Optional, but highly recommended
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 * hal        (required for notification of disc eject / insert and
               also for automatic disc unmounting)
 * thunar-vfs (required for some drag and drop code, icons and automatic disc 
               unmounting)
 * gstreamer  (0.10+, required for burning audio CDs from compressed music
               files)

The author works with both hal and thunar-vfs enabled, so there might be the
occasional bug that breaks compilation without these components. Xfburn should
work without these optional components, but it is not well tested at all.
Should something not compile or work as expected, please report a bug, and it
will get fixed.

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Future Plans
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Missing functionality that we plan to add:
 * Save and load compositions
 * Verification
 * Copy discs (needs backend support)
 * Automatic checksum creation
 * Blu-ray support
 * Plugin support

There is no, and never will be, a timeline for these. Let us know if you think
something is missing on this list. If you really need something implemented,
feel free to help us out :-).

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Bugs & Feedback
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Any comments are welcome! We aim to make xfburn a very easily usable program.
So if you think something could be implemented differently, feel free to speak
up and it will be considered. Please send all feedbacks to xfburn@xfce.org, or
use the xfce mailing lists. Bugs are best placed in the xfce bugtracker at
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/

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License
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This program is released under the GNU GPL version 2 or newer. See COPYING for
the full text of the license.
