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>>> On Friday 02 Apr 2004 2:00 am, li <linuxlingam> said:
li> under the pcqlinux2k4 fedora, i found to my surprise a full-working
li> dvdplayer in software, which is great.
li>
li> just a moment ago, i found the following:
li>
li> /home/LL/.dvdcss/MY_DISC#2004032523190000/
li>
li>
li> okay, so i wonder, what the f**k is this? some sort of DRM (digital
li> rights management) mechanism in place?
li>
li> make that digital restrictions management, in the words of RMS.
li>
li> any clues, guys?
libdvdcss is the library used to access dvds like a block device. You dont
need to worry about the decryption of dvds anymore. libdvdcss doesn't require
the region of your drive to be set. Even with region mismatch, it reads DVDs.
Cool, heh!
Here's what the actual documentation of the library says about your hidden
directory:
<quote>----------------------------------------------------
Some environment variables can be used to change the behaviour of libdvdcss
without having to modify the program which uses it.
DVDCSS_METHOD: sets the authentication and decryption method that libdvdcss
will use to read scrambled discs. Can be one of title, key or disc.
DVDCSS_CACHE: specify a directory in which to store title key values. This
will speed up descrambling of DVDs which are in the cache. The DVDCSS_CACHE
directory is created if it does not exist, and a subdirectory is created
named after the DVD's TITLE OR MANUFACTURING DATE.
If DVDCSS_CACHE is not set or is empty, libdvdcss will use the default value
which is "${HOME}/.dvdcss/"
</quote>---------------------------------------------------------------
I got this from the libdvdcss developer documentation at:
http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss/libdvdcss/doc/html/
BTW, some more information on DVDs.
I use okle, xine, mplayer & totem to play DVDs. They play all DVD's
flawlessly. Only problem i have faced is that okle needs a restart when you
change DVDs. Hopefully that will be rectified soon.
Transcode is another amazing software which provides fantastic tools to rip
dvds. I have dvd::rip installed but there is this amazing perl script called
V2divx which keeps everything very neat and simple. Converting the LOTR-III
DVD (3 hrs 12 min long) to divx using V2divx (using transcode and ffmpeg)
took only _three_and_a_half_hours (on an LFS system with 512MB RAM and 1800+
athlon XP) What I got was a neatly done 700MB divx file which I burned to a
single cd! Now the DrDivx professional software (on windows) would take
around 7 hrs to do the same thing. Dunno why? :-)
regards,
Bhaskar.
P.S. Can anyone tell me what frame rate they get while encoding DVDs in
windows and linux? I get around 62-65 fps under linux.
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