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NAME

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


SYNOPSIS

       bchunk [-v] [-p] [-r] [-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.

       It is advisable to edit the .cue file to either MODE2/2352/2048 or
       MODE2/2352/2324 depending on whether an ISO filesystem or a VCD is
       desired, respectively.  The format itself does not contain this feature
       and in an ambiguous case it can only guess.


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.

       -r        Makes binchunker output MODE2/2352 tracks in raw format, from
                 offset 0 for 2352 bytes. Good for MPEG/VCD.


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>
       Matthew Green <mrg@eterna.com.au>

Heikki Hannikainen            v1.2.0 29 Jun 2004                     BCHUNK(1)

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