Device::Cdio 2.3

Device::Cdio is a Perl module for CD Input and Control library.

SYNOPSIS

This encapsulates CD-ROM reading and control. Applications wishing to be oblivious of the OS- and device-dependent properties of a CD-ROM can use this library.

use Device::Cdio;
use Device::Cdio::Device;

@cd_drives = Device::Cdio::get_devices($perlcdio::DRIVER_DEVICE);
@cd_drives = Device::Cdio::get_devices_with_cap($perlcdio::FS_AUDIO, 0);
foreach my $drive (@cd_drives) {
print "Drive $driven";
}
foreach my $driver_name (sort keys(%Device::Cdio::drivers)) {
print "Driver $driver_name is installed.n"
if Device::Cdio::have_driver($driver_name) and
$driver_name !~ m{device|Unknown};
}

This is an Perl Object-Oriented interface to the GNU CD Input and Control library, libcdio, written in C. The library encapsulates CD-ROM reading and control. Perl programs wishing to be oblivious of the OS- and device-dependent properties of a CD-ROM can use this library.

The encapsulation is done in two parts. The lower-level Perl interface is called perlcdio and is generated by SWIG.
The more object-oriented package Device::Cdio and uses perlcdio. Actually, there are no objects in Device::Cdio, but there are in its sub packages Device::Cdio::Device and Device::Cdio::Tracks.

Although perlcdio is perfectly usable on its own, it is expected that Cdio is what most people will use. As perlcdio more closely models the C interface libcdio, it is conceivable (if unlikely) that die-hard libcdio C users who are very familiar with that interface could prefer that.