- CDemu
Infobox Software
name = CDemulatest release version = 1.1.0
latest release date =June 30 ,2008
operating system =Linux
language =Multilingual
genre =Disc image emulator
license = GPL
website = http://cdemu.sourceforge.netAbout
CDemu is a software suite designed to emulate an optical drive+disc (CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs etc.) on the Linux operating system.
CDEmu consists of:
* a kernel module implementing a virtualSCSI host bus adapter,
* libmirage which is a software library for interpreting optical disc images,
* a daemon which emulates the functionality of aSCSI optical drive+disc,
* textmode and GTK clients for controlling the emulator.Optical media emulated by CDemu can be mounted within Linux. Automounting is also allowed.
The files for the current version can be found at [http://cdemu.sourceforge.net/ the project's website] .
History
CDemu was originally designed by a group of friends (Robert Penz and Justus Schwartz) as a patch for
MPlayer that allowed mounting .CUE/.BIN files. After the patch was completed, they realized the simplicity, and wrote a module for the kernel.Originally, CDemu was named Virtual CD, but this name had been previously
trademark ed, and the owners of the trademark requested that they not use the name.As of June, 2007, development on CDemu 0.8 ceased and a rewrite was developed instead. Most of this work was done by Rok Mandeljc. This new version of CDEmu took another approach to the emulation by doing as much as possible in userspace. As of June 2008 it is considered to be mostly stable.
Status
As of version 1.1.0 CDEmu supports the following image formats:
*Nero Burning ROM's .nrg format,
*DiscJuggler 's .cdi format,
*Clone CD's .ccd/.sub/.img,
*CDRWin 's .cue/.bin format,
*ISO-9660 .iso format,
*cdrdao 's .toc format,
*Blindwrite .b6t format,
*Alcohol 120% .mds format,
*Easy CD Creator .cif format,
*Roxio / WinOnCD .c2d format,
*PowerISO .daa format.Most of MMC-3 is supported, which means proper emulation of a
SCSI optical drive.Support for Subchannels,
CD-Text , ISRC and MCNs, ECC/EDC, DPM/RMPS.The developers are working on supporting as many major formats as they can, and they encourage users to submit patches to this end.
ee also
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Daemon Tools
*Alcohol 120%
*Disk image emulator External links
* [http://cdemu.sourceforge.net/ Official website]
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