Re: playing dvds from the network

Fri Mar 21 2003, Miguel Freitas wrote:
> hi folks,
> 
> i wrote a patch to be able to play dvds across the network (from a
> remote dvdrom unit) by modifying libdvdcss:
> 
> http://www.via.ecp.fr/via/ml/libdvdcss-devel/200303/msg00027.html
> 
That patch doesn't look to be portable enough... but I guess that's 
upto the VLC people.

> in case you are wondering why i didn't used nbd, it's just because the
> user space solution is better:
> 
> - better control of driver locking
> - more reliable (no kernel hanging due network problems)
> - nbd doesn't support remote ioctls (enbd do, but requires patching)
> 
> however i still had to made a small change at libdvdread to avoid
> failing due unexistent device. perhaps you might want to include the
> small patch i'm attaching?
> 
Which versions of libdvdcss does this work for?

I see that you were appropriately conservative in the patch and check
for ':'. What effect does this patch have on error messages when you
either don't have a 'new enough' libdvdcss or the remote device
fails/refuses connection/does not exist ?

I really don't see any problem, that stat call is only there to improve
error messages so..

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Håkan Hjort