[libbluray-devel] Request: Add ISO support

[Robert McNamara]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm kinda confused now.. on the libarchive page
> (http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/) it says:
> "Reads a variety of formats, including tar, pax, cpio, zip, xar, lha, ar,
> cab, mtree, and ISO images."

ISO isn't UDF.  ISO is a disk image.  UDF is a filesystem.  An ISO of
a DVD or Blu-ray would contain a UDF filesystem. An ISO of a CD-ROM
would contain an ISO9660 filesystem.

> Yet there is also a open issue to add
> UDF: http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/detail?id=27 so i'm not
> quite getting what is and isn't supported there.

What is not supported is the UDF filesystem in ISO.

> ... So, there is ISO support in libarchive already which (yet again) leads
> me to ask: is libarchive going to be supported in libbluray?

Which leads us to answer (yet again), that libbluray
shouldn't/wouldn't support libarchive.  The player/ripper/etc.
application would support libarchive (once someone added UDF
filesystem support) and libbluray both, giving it support for Blu-ray
ISOs.

Robert

PS, you probably shouldn't top-post on this or any other list.