[libdvdcss-devel] [PATCH] more aggressive dvdcss_test

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de
Thu Nov 3 08:25:29 CET 2011


On 3 Nov 2011, at 00:33, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 04:46:49PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>> attached patch makes dvdcss_test more agressive by making it only
>> set b_scrambled to 0 if it is _absolutely_ certain the disc is
>> not encrypted (the per-title checks will detect unscrambled titles
>> just fine anyway), never unsetting b_ioctls (which I tested on a disc image
>> with b_ioctls always forced to 1, it still works just fine).
> 
> This was never discussed or applied.  Reimar committed a slightly different
> version to MPlayer in the meantime.
> 
> Reimar, can you comment on the changes you did and why?

I don't think it fully fixes the issues, but dvdcss sometimes randomly (possibly on read errors) decides a disk is unencrypted, stores that in the cache and playback is permanently broken.
This was an attempt to fix it, but I have some doubts it really achieves the purpose.


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