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BCHUNK

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: v1.1.1 7 Aug 2001
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NAME

bchunk - CD image format conversion from bin/cue to iso/cdr  

SYNOPSIS

bchunk [-v] [-p] [-w] [-s] <image.bin> <image.cue> <basename>  

DESCRIPTION

bchunk converts a CD image in a ".bin / .cue" format (sometimes ".raw / .cue") to a set of .iso and .cdr tracks.

The bin/cue format is used by some non-Unix cd-writing software, but is not supported on most other cd-writing programs.

image.bin is the raw cd image file. image.cue is the track index file containing track types and offsets. basename is used for the beginning part of the created track files.

The produced .iso track contains an ISO file system, which can be mounted through a loop device on Linux systems, or written on a CD-R using cdrecord. The .cdr tracks are in the native CD audio format. They can be either written on a CD-R using cdrecord -audio, or converted to WAV (or any other sound format for that matter) using sox.  

OPTIONS

-v
Makes binchunker print some more unnecessary messages, which should not be of interest for anyone.
-w
Makes binchunker write audio tracks in WAV format.
-s
Makes binchunker swap byte order in the samples of audio tracks.
-p
makes binchunker go into PSX mode and truncate MODE2/2352 tracks to 2336 bytes at offset 0 instead of normal 2048 bytes at offset 24. (untested, please let me know if this actually works)
 

FILES

image.bin
Raw CD image file
image.cue
TOC (Track index, Table Of Contents) file
*.iso
Tracks in ISO9660 CD filesystem format. Can be either written on a CD-R using cdrecord, or mounted (on Linux platforms at least) through a loop device ('mount track.iso /mnt/cdrom -o loop=/dev/loop0,blocksize=1024').
*.cdr
Audio tracks in native CD audio format. They can be either written on a CD-R using 'cdrecord -audio', or converted to WAV (or any other sound format for that matter) using sox ('sox track.cdr track.wav').
*.wav
Audio tracks in WAV format.
 

SEE ALSO

cdrecord(1), mkisofs(8), sox(1), cdrdao(1)  

AUTHORS

Heikki Hannikainen <hessu@hes.iki.fi>
Bob Marietta <marietrg@SLU.EDU>
Colas Nahaboo <Colas@Nahaboo.com>
Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu>


 

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SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
FILES
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS

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