[ANN] vlc 0.2.81

Samuel Hocevar sam at zoy.org
Mon Jul 30 14:16:33 CEST 2001


On Mon, Jul 30, 2001, Christophe Massiot wrote:

> > Raw device documentation claims that you have to speak with a raw
> > device using full-sector addressing, so maybe this is the problem?
>
> I have no idea what it means. Can't we just lseek() ?

   You need to lseek() at sector-bound addresses, and libdvdcss does
this.

   As you stated, the problem might come from the authentication ioctls,
maybe they should be done on the real device instead of the raw device,
which would require some changes in the dvdcss_open() call.

-- 
Sam.




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