RFS: ecm -- prepares CD image files so they compress better
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ecm"
* Package name : ecm
Version : 1.00
Upstream Author : Neill Corlett <neill@neillcorlet.com>
* URL : http://www.neillcorlett.com/ecm/
* License : GPL2+
Programming Lang: C
Description : prepares CD image files so they compress better
The ECM format allows you to reduce the size of a typical CD image
file (BIN, CDI, NRG, CCD, or any other format that uses raw sectors).
It works by eliminating the Error Correction/Detection Codes
(ECC/EDC) from each sector whenever possible. The encoder
automatically adjusts to different sector types and automatically
skips any headers it encounters.
Since the data skipped is nearly impossible to compress with
traditionnal tools, the resulting ECM file will compress far better
than the raw CD image
There's a description of how it works at
http://www.neillcorlett.com/ecm/how.html, it's really neat especially if
you like lossless compression techniques (the author has another neat
GPL compression-related program using FFTW for functionality I also
haven't found elsewhere - see http://www.neillcorlett.com/informer/ but
sadly the author has turned to .Net).
It builds this binary package: ecm
The latest entry in the Debian changelog is:
ecm (1.00-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Initial release (Closes: bug#531079).
* Repacked .zip to .tar.gz tarball, removed Windows binaries from
archive (ecm.exe, unecm.exe)
The package is lintian clean (tested with unstable lintian), no
warnings. It's been accepted in Ubuntu 9.04, and I've worked on it a bit
more for inclusion in Debian.
The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL:
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/ecm
- dget line:
dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/ecm/ecm_1.00-1.dsc
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