使用 Homebrew 安装 libcdio

项目链接

• 主页
• 仓库

命令和别名

• cd-drive
• cd-info
• cd-read
• iso-info
• iso-read
• mmc-tool

项目历史

The GNU manual gives libcdio an unusually explicit origin story. Rocky Bernstein describes becoming interested in Video CDs through VCDImager, extracting reusable VCD and CD-reading pieces with Herbert Valerio Riedel's encouragement, and naming the CD reading/control library libcdio to avoid confusion with CD-I.

The same manual frames the project as an answer to the portability mess in early-2000s media players. Around 2002, applications such as xine, MPlayer, VLC, and XMMS carried platform-specific CD access code. libcdio set out to isolate that OS and device variability behind one library, then grew ISO-9660 support, MMC command support, and cdparanoia integration.

采用历史

libcdio became a plumbing package for multimedia stacks rather than an end-user application. Its command-line tools such as cd-info, cd-read, iso-info, iso-read, cd-drive, and mmc-tool made it useful to packagers and diagnostics, while libraries such as libiso9660 let other programs consume disc images and physical discs through the same dependency.

The project is packaged broadly across Unix-like distributions and Homebrew. That adoption reflects a narrow but durable need: software still needs to inspect optical media, parse ISO images, read CD-DA, or issue low-level drive commands even as optical drives became less common.

使用方式

Users usually encounter libcdio indirectly through media players, ripping tools, image-inspection commands, or build dependencies. Developers use it to avoid writing separate drive-access code for Linux, BSD, macOS, Windows-style layers, and image formats.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

libcdio is package-nerd catnip because it sits at the junction of hardware, file formats, ancient media-player portability, GNU packaging, and command-line diagnostics. It also explains recurring dependency chains such as libcdio, libcdio-paranoia, libcddb, vcdimager, and ISO-9660 tooling in old-school multimedia formulas.

时间线

• 2002: libcdio's manual describes the portability problem in free software CD/media players around this period.
• 2003-11-22: GNU FTP archive lists libcdio 0.64.
• 2008-2010: GNU manual copyright range shows continued documentation work by Rocky Bernstein and Herbert Valerio Riedel.
• 2012-2014: GNU manual copyright range records later documentation maintenance.
• 2025: GNU manual copyright line records renewed documentation updates.

Related projects

• Related projects include VCDImager, libvcdinfo, libiso9660, libcdio-paranoia, cdparanoia, libcddb, libburn, xine, MPlayer, VLC, and other applications that historically needed portable CD or CD-image access.

来源

• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/libcdio
• https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libcdio/
• https://github.com/libcdio/libcdio
• https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/libcdio
• https://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio/libcdio.html