Re^4: [Mplayer-dev-eng] more on IFO

[Felix Buenemann]

On Monday, 20. August 2001 19:55, Juergen Keil wrote:
> > o The CSS auth part determines the device to be used for CSS
> > authentication by
> >
> > >   scanning the /etc/mnttab, given a pathname for a mounted DVD. 
> > > Problem is
>
> that
>
> > >   this gives us a block device on solaris, but the CSS code needs the
>
> character
>
> > >   device for sending the CSS auth commands/ioctls.
> >
> > this one is very interesting & strange.
> > afaik it does not requires DVD to be mounted.
> > so it won't be in mnttab.
>
> As far as I understand it...
>
> ...libdvdread supports both direct device access (when you pass it a block
> device or a regular file - character device is missing here, too) or
> regular file accesses (when you pass it a directory which should be the
> mountpoint of a mounted DVD-ROM disk).  See dvdread/dvd_reader.c, function
> DVDOpen().
>
> > or is it a solaris-spec stuff?
>
> No.  Should work on Linux, too.
>
> I'm not sitting in front of a linux box now, but the following should work:
>
> 	mount /media/dvd
> 	.../libdvdread-0.8.0/src/title_info /media/dvd
yes, but it doesn't do decss then and also discovers less titles here than 
when usind dvd device.
-- 
Best Regards,
	Atmos

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	- Gabucino

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