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>5. Applications</A
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>This section briefly lists a few of the many applications
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related to CD-ROM that are available under Linux. Check the Linux
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Software Map for the latest versions and archive sites.</P
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>5.1. Audio CD Players</A
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>Several programs are available for playing audio CDs,
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either through a headphone jack or an attached sound card.</P
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>kscd</DT
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>A graphical CD player included as part of the KDE desktop environment.</P
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>gtcd</DT
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>A graphical CD player included as part of the GNOME desktop environment.</P
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>Workman</DT
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>a graphical player running under X11 and supporting
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a CD database and many other features</P
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>WorkBone</DT
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>an interactive text-mode player</P
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>xcdplayer</DT
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>a simple X11 based player</P
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>cdplayer</DT
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>a very simple command line based player</P
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>Xmcd</DT
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>an X11/Motif based player</P
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>xmitsumi</DT
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>another X11 based player for Mitsumi drives</P
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>xplaycd</DT
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>another X11 based player, bundled with sound mixer
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and VU meter programs</P
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>cdtool</DT
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><DD
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>command line tools for playing audio CDs</P
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>Some of these programs are coded to use a specific device file for the
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CD-ROM (e.g. <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/dev/cdrom</TT
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>). You may be able to pass the correct
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device name as a parameter, or you can create a symbolic link in the
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<TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/dev</TT
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> directory. If sending the CD output to a sound card, you
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may wish to use a mixer program to set volume settings or select the
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CD-ROM input for recording.</P
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>5.2. PhotoCD</A
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>PhotoCDs use an ISO-9660 file system containing image files
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in a proprietary format. Not all CD-ROM drives support reading
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PhotoCDs.</P
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>The <TT
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>hpcdtoppm</TT
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> program by Hadmut Danisch converts PhotoCD
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files to the portable pixmap format. It can be obtained from
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HREF="ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/hpcdtoppm"
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>ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/hpcdtoppm</A
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or as part of the PBM (portable bit map) utilities, available on many
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archive sites (look for "pbm" or "netpbm").</P
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>The <TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>photocd</TT
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> program by Gerd Knorr
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(<A
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>kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de</A
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can convert PhotoCD images into Targa or Windows and OS/2 bitmap
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files.</P
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>The same author has written the program <TT
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>xpcd</TT
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>, an X11-based
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program for handling PhotoCD images. You can select the images with a
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mouse, preview the image in a small window, and load the image with
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any of the five possible resolutions. You can also mark a part of the
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Image and load only the selected part. Look for these packages at
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<A
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HREF="ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/linux/Local/misc/"
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>ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/linux/Local/misc/</A
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>The ImageMagick image file manipulation program also supports PhotoCD
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files. It is available from
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HREF="ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/ImageMagick/"
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>ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/ImageMagick/</A
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>5.3. Mkisofs</A
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>Eric Youngdale's <TT
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>mkisofs</TT
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> package allows creating an ISO-9660
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file system on a hard disk partition. This can then be used to assist
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in creating and testing CD-ROM file systems before mastering discs.</P
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>5.4. ISO-9660 Utilities</A
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>These are some utilities for verifying the format of ISO-9660
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formatted discs; you may find them useful for testing suspect CDs. The
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package can be found at
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<A
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>ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/unixfreeware/archive/</A
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>. They were
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written by Bill Siegmund and Rich Morin.</P
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