cdrom: what changed
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Title: cdrom
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| 1 | + | The cdrom package contains some routines to read the table of contents (TOC) of a CD-ROM. From this TOC a DISC ID can be computed which can be used to query a CDDB server such as the one on freecddb.org. This unit is compatible with Linux (only tested on x86) and Windows (only tested on 32-bit) | |
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| 3 | + | The package consists of 2 main units, and some auxiliary units: | |
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| 5 | + | - **cdrom**: this unit contains the routines to determine which CD-ROM devices exist on the system, and to read the TOC of a cdrom in one of the devices. | |
| 6 | + | - **discid**: this unit calculates a DISC ID based on the TOC of a CD-ROM. This disc ID can be used to send a query to a cddb database server. A routine exists which returns the exact query string for the CDDB server. | |
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| 8 | + | Other than these units, there exist some auxiliary units: | |
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| 10 | + | - **lincd** a unit which contains essentially the translation of the linux kernel cdrom interface (linux/cdrom.h header file). | |
| 11 | + | - **major** a unit containing the definitions of the major device numbers on linux. | |
| 12 | + | - **wincd** a unit containing windows routines to enumerate cd-rom drives and read the TOC of a CDROM. It supports SPTI, IOCTL and ASPI interface calls to accomplish this task. | |
| 13 | + | - **wnaspi32** the win32 interface to ASPI (SCSI programming interface for Windows) | |
| 14 | + | - **scsidefs** some constant and type definitions for the SCSI layer on Windows. | |
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| 16 | + | There are also 2 test programs to demonstrate the capabilities of these units: | |
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| 18 | + | - **showcds**: demonstrates the cdrom unit, shows the available CD-ROM disc drives on the system. | |
| 19 | + | - **getdiscid**: demonstrates the cdrom and discid unit by calculating the disc ID from a cdrom in a disc drive. | |
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| 21 | + | Go back to [[Package List|Packages List]] | |
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| 24 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "cdrom", as it stood on 2013-12-27 after a change by BigChimp, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* | |
| 25 | + | Category: Devices | |
| 26 | + | Category: FPC | |
| 27 | + | Category: Packages |