CDI Burning HOWTO

Revision 1.1

1. Copyright Information

This text is released for free to anyone for any purpose. Feel free to copy, update, 
and redistribute. Please contact the author (poptix@poptix.net) if you update this 
document.

2. Introduction


This document will help you create a CD from a .CDI image under linux, hopefully
leaving you with a working CD in the intended format.


3. Getting Started

	You will need a few things to get started:

	3.1 cdrecord

		Unfortunately the version of cdrecord at the time of the writing of this 
	document will not properly write the audio track of a CDI extracted disk (the 
	minimum length is 302 bytes, while the CDI format is 300) for this
	you will need a patched version located at some of the following locations:

	http://cdirip.freeyellow.com/cdrhack.zip
	http://www.poptix.net/mirror/cdrhack.zip

	Thanks to Peter Ashley for the patch.

	3.2 CDIrip

		CDIrip is "a small tool which will scan and extract the contents of a 
	DiscJuggler (both v2.0 and v3.0 versions) image. These images end with extension 
	.CDI, hence the name." You can find this program in many locations, including
	the following:

	http://cdirip.freeyellow.com/cdirip05a_linux.zip
	http://www.poptix.net/mirror/cdirip05a_linux.zip

	2.3 A CD-R drive, supported by cdrecord (most are)

4. Let's do it!

		I assume at this point that you have the patched cdrecord, and CDIrip on
	your system, and in your $PATH. 

	4.1 Extracting the tracks

		Execute the CDIrip as follows:

			cdirip image.cdi -cdrecord

		'image.cdi' is the name of your .cdi image, after this is completed you
		will be left with two kinds of files, audio tracks, and data tracks:

			taudio01.wav
			tdata02.iso

		in this example, we only have one audio track, and one data track, if you
		have more of either it's okay, they're numbered so you can burn them in
		the correct order.

	4.2 Burning the tracks

		Audio tracks and data tracks require slightly different parameters to
		cdrecord, when burning, make sure that you're providing the right
		parameters for the data being burnt.

		For audio tracks:

			cdrecord dev=0,6,0 speed=8 -v -multi -audio taudio01.wav

		For data tracks:

			cdrecord dev=0,6,0 speed=8 -v -multi -xa1 tdata02.iso

		You should of course change the filename in the examples above to reflect
		the track that you are burning, as well as the burn speed, and device ID.


5. Conclusion

	At this point you should have a CD-R with the tracks in the correct order, if
you find that the CD-R does not work for some reason, make sure that you burnt the tracks
in the correct order, used the patched version of cdrecord, and did not recieve any errors
from cdrecord after burning any tracks.





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