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hubersn Software closed from 2009-03-06 until 2009-03-22

hubersn Software will be closed for the next two weeks. No orders will be dispatched, no email support can be given.

Watch out for the next big update release coming in time for the Wakefield Show.

First Blu-Ray Disc successfully written on RISC OS!

I am happy to report the first milestone on my way to implement Blu-Ray support on RISC OS. I have just (2008-04-14, 01:58h) finished formatting and writing the very first BD-RE (Blu-Ray Rewritable Medium) with an extended version of CDVDBurn using an IYONIX pc and an LG GGW-H20L drive. And what is probably most important, the CDVDBurn Extractor was able to read the data back without failure.

The code needs a bit tidying up, but seems to work fine so far - it is similar to DVD-RAM writing, but especially the error correction options are much more numerous and I have not decided yet which parameters should be user-adjustable and which not. I also have no experience with BD-R yet and also not with the double layer variants (50 GB). Having experience with more than one device wouldn't be a bad idea, too...

Blu-Ray support in development

I have started implementing support for Blu-Ray writing. Looks good so far (using BD-RE, the rewritable variant of Blu-Ray media). The writer I am using is the LG GGW-H20L. "But it is Serial ATA", I hear you say. That's correct, I am using a LogiLink IDE-to-SATA adapter to connect it to the IYONIX pc motherboard.

FYI: technically, Blu-Ray BD-RE is very similar to DVD-RAM. It supports fully drive-and-media-controlled error mapping and verify-on-write. It also does not suffer from write quality degradation if a certain writing speed cannot be sustained (very important for RISC OS, and the reason why DVD-R writing is still not available).

Fixing RISC OS Open's CDFSSoftATAPI

I am currently looking at fixing the CDFSSoftATAPI softloadable CDFS driver that is part of RISC OS Open's already released parts of RISC OS. This driver (as used in RISC OS 3.6/3.7/3.8/4.0x/5.xx) has some well-known shortcomings that makes it unsuitable to successfully drive e.g. the LG DVD writers when trying to read DVDs.

I have already identifed the critical parts that make it fail for the LG drives, but since I am not very fluent at ARM assembler, fixing it will take a while. Stay tuned!

This fixing is a stop-gap measure because my full-blown universal supports-every-drive-under-the-sun driver takes a bit longer to finish. I intend to release the fixing work as "free for everyone", and the completely new driver under a "donate if you like it" scheme.

hubersn Software closed from 2008-03-02 until 2008-03-17

hubersn Software will be closed for the next two weeks. No orders will be dispatched, no email support can be given.

A short history of CD(VD)Burn

To sum up the 10 years of CD(VD)Burn history, I have written a few words for your enjoyment. Look here.

Happy Birthday, CD(VD)Burn!

CDBurn first saw the (public) light of day on October 31st, 1997 - it was Acorn World 1997, and Warm Silence Software started selling CDBurn to the "masses" (if something like that ever existed in RISC OS land).

When I started developing the first prototype in June 1997, I couldn't imagine creating a product that would last more than 10 years. What began as a few hundred lines of BBC BASIC code to write data and audio tracks to a SCSI Philips CDD2000 is now a CD/DVD authoring solution supporting many (sometimes completely) different SCSI and IDE drives and running on everything from a RISC OS 3 A310 to an IYONIX pc.

Thanks to all customers, testers, friends and the whole RISC OS community who helped to make it happen.

New beta available soon...hopefully...

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hubersn Software at the GAG meeting/A.U.T.O. 2007-09-29

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hubersn Software will be visiting the forthcoming GAG meeting/A.U.T.O. - meet me there!

hubersn Software closed from 2007-03-10 until 2007-03-26

hubersn Software will be closed for the next two weeks. No orders will be dispatched, no email support can be given.

A new beta version was given to beta testers today - this contains the recently-hinted-at CD/DVD Extractor in a rudimentary version.

New Public Beta with DVD-RAM support available

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I have added V2.02b to the downloadable upgrades section. This fixes one very annoying bug (multisession writing) and adds DVD-RAM support if you are lucky enough to have a suitable drive.

Bouncing addresses on the mailing list

I have set various email addresses subscribed to the CDVDBurn mailing list on freelists.org to "Vacation" status because they regularly were not contactable. If you have not received mail from the CDVDBurn mailing list in the last few days, please check your subscription status.

GAG Meeting/A.U.T.O. and the next three weeks

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I will be at the forthcoming GAG meeting/A.U.T.O. - meet me there to discuss hubersn Software's plans for the future, other RISC OS topics or in fact anything you'd like to discuss at all.

During the next three weeks, I will finally have a chance to consolidate all the on-and-off work I did on CDVDBurn and other tools in the past 15 months. This will hopefully result in a (free) CDVDBurn update, information about currently compatible DVD writers and the second hubersn Software product. Stay tuned!

hubersn Software closed from 2005-09-24 until 2005-10-09

To get some holiday this year, hubersn Software will be closed for the next two weeks. No orders will be dispatched, no email support can be given.

hubersn Software at the RISC OS Expo/Big Ben Show 2005

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CDVDBurn released

Wakefield 2005 saw the release of CDVDBurn, the successor to CDBurn. It is capable of writing Data DVDs on various media types (currently DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW - to be expanded).

Read everything about CDVDBurn in the News.

Introduction

Welcome to hubersn Software, home of the RISC OS CD writing software packages CDBurn and CDBurn Lite and of course the brand new CD/DVD writing package CDVDBurn.

Please use the image map at the top of the page to navigate, or the quick links on the left hand side.

It is always a good idea to check the Latest News. The best idea however is to just buy your CDVDBurn licence!

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