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This version includes some revision of the passing of genisomage parameters to the media burn function while maintaining compatibility with previous versions. Some checks of the validity of the parameters passed are performed and currently invalid options are ignored.

Some minor bug fixes and documentation updates are also included.

This version includes some revision of the passing of genisomage parameters to the media burn function while maintaining compatibility with previous versions. Some checks of the validity of the parameters passed are performed and currently invalid options are ignored.

Some minor bug fixes and documentation updates are also included.

v3.06 is minor update to v3.05 which contained some UI enhancements. Somehow v3.05 was never released, probably as I side effect to some personal issues which suspended work on the code.

Linux::DataDVD is a perl module that is a wrapper for dvd+rw+tool, growisofs, mkisofs, mount and umount commands. Targeted at the management of file based data rather than multimedia.

This version fixes a few minor bugs and adds the ability to define a UI object for user interaction. This should allow the module to be used with GUI or custom interfaces.

This release include some changes to control of dialog burning process and a couple of minor bugfixes.

The ability to report on all DVD devices detected has been included.

Linux::DataDVD is a Perl wrapper module for dvd+rw-tools, growisofs, mkisofs for the writing of data to DVDs. Designed to allow the development of Perl scripts to perform DVD or ISO management tasks.

The Linux::DataDVD 3.01 Beta release is now available at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/datadvd

The calling convention for the main DVD burning function has been changed to allow the selection of source and target locations. The patch for 2.01 has also been incorporated.

This should simply encapsulate most of the steps usually required to create, copy or burn an ISO image for use within a Perl script.

The 02.01 revision has been released

These include...

Media type detection improvements.
Use of isovfy to verify ISO images and filesystems.
Fix of some file ISO related bugs

A release that incorporates support for changes for later versions of wodim. The module has been also extended for more intelligent handling of multiple drives and loop mounting of ISO files.

Added a couple of minor changes, and revised tests. See CHANGES for details

The 01.00 of this module has been released. This module is a wrapper for Linux CD/DVD writing tools and is intended to supply Perl developers a mechanism to prepare, manage and write files to iso9660 based DVDs or images.

The module has the capability to check and validate both the contents of the iso image and the copy burnt to disk. As a mechanism for mounting, unmounted CD/DVDs as required.