<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Applications</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.63 "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Linux CD-ROM HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Installation" HREF="x289.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Answers to Frequently Asked Questions" HREF="x1186.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The Linux CD-ROM HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x289.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x1186.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1113" >5. Applications</A ></H1 ><P >This section briefly lists a few of the many applications related to CD-ROM that are available under Linux. Check the Linux Software Map for the latest versions and archive sites.</P ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN1116" >5.1. Audio CD Players</A ></H2 ><P >Several programs are available for playing audio CDs, either through a headphone jack or an attached sound card.</P ><P ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT >kscd</DT ><DD ><P >A graphical CD player included as part of the KDE desktop environment.</P ></DD ><DT >gtcd</DT ><DD ><P >A graphical CD player included as part of the GNOME desktop environment.</P ></DD ><DT >Workman</DT ><DD ><P >a graphical player running under X11 and supporting a CD database and many other features</P ></DD ><DT >WorkBone</DT ><DD ><P >an interactive text-mode player</P ></DD ><DT >xcdplayer</DT ><DD ><P >a simple X11 based player</P ></DD ><DT >cdplayer</DT ><DD ><P >a very simple command line based player</P ></DD ><DT >Xmcd</DT ><DD ><P >an X11/Motif based player</P ></DD ><DT >xmitsumi</DT ><DD ><P >another X11 based player for Mitsumi drives</P ></DD ><DT >xplaycd</DT ><DD ><P >another X11 based player, bundled with sound mixer and VU meter programs</P ></DD ><DT >cdtool</DT ><DD ><P >command line tools for playing audio CDs</P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></P ><P >Some of these programs are coded to use a specific device file for the CD-ROM (e.g. <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/dev/cdrom</TT >). You may be able to pass the correct device name as a parameter, or you can create a symbolic link in the <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/dev</TT > directory. If sending the CD output to a sound card, you may wish to use a mixer program to set volume settings or select the CD-ROM input for recording.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN1164" >5.2. PhotoCD</A ></H2 ><P >PhotoCDs use an ISO-9660 file system containing image files in a proprietary format. Not all CD-ROM drives support reading PhotoCDs.</P ><P >The <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >hpcdtoppm</TT > program by Hadmut Danisch converts PhotoCD files to the portable pixmap format. It can be obtained from <A HREF="ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/hpcdtoppm" TARGET="_top" >ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/hpcdtoppm</A > or as part of the PBM (portable bit map) utilities, available on many archive sites (look for "pbm" or "netpbm").</P ><P >The <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >photocd</TT > program by Gerd Knorr (<A HREF="mailto:kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de" TARGET="_top" >kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de</A >) can convert PhotoCD images into Targa or Windows and OS/2 bitmap files.</P ><P >The same author has written the program <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >xpcd</TT >, an X11-based program for handling PhotoCD images. You can select the images with a mouse, preview the image in a small window, and load the image with any of the five possible resolutions. You can also mark a part of the Image and load only the selected part. Look for these packages at <A HREF="ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/linux/Local/misc/" TARGET="_top" >ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/linux/Local/misc/</A >.</P ><P >The ImageMagick image file manipulation program also supports PhotoCD files. It is available from <A HREF="ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/ImageMagick/" TARGET="_top" >ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/ImageMagick/</A >.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN1178" >5.3. Mkisofs</A ></H2 ><P >Eric Youngdale's <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >mkisofs</TT > package allows creating an ISO-9660 file system on a hard disk partition. This can then be used to assist in creating and testing CD-ROM file systems before mastering discs.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN1182" >5.4. ISO-9660 Utilities</A ></H2 ><P >These are some utilities for verifying the format of ISO-9660 formatted discs; you may find them useful for testing suspect CDs. The package can be found at <A HREF="ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/unixfreeware/archive/" TARGET="_top" >ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/unixfreeware/archive/</A >. They were written by Bill Siegmund and Rich Morin.</P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x289.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x1186.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Installation</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Answers to Frequently Asked Questions</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >