DVD navigation

Samuel Hocevar sam at zoy.org
Tue Aug 14 19:33:20 CEST 2001


On Mon, Aug 13, 2001, Gildas Bazin wrote:

> So, I'm wondering now, what's all the ioctl stuff about in libdvdcss ?

   It's required by drive authentication. The DVD drive won't let you
read data on a scrambled DVD if you don't authenticate first.

-- 
Sam.




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