question about libdvdcss

[Samuel Hocevar]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001, Ariel Manzur wrote:

> Hi. I saw libdvd css on freshmeat, the description says "[...] transparent
> DVD device access with on the fly CSS decryption [...]".
> Does this mean the package installs a device on /dev to access the DVD? is
> it possible to do that with this library?

   It doesn't create a device, but uses the existing one. Access to the
DVD is done through libdvdcss calls such as dvdcss_open(), dvdcss_read()
which are quite similar to the usual libc commands.

-- 
Sam.