Re: playing dvds from the network

Hi,

On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 12:32, H}kan Hjort wrote:
> > 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.


yes, sure. so far they said nothing about it and i don't know if they
will want to merge the patch (even if 100% portable). maybe network
transparency is beyond what they want for a dvd library, maybe not...

anyway it seems a useful feature and linux users may want to try it. so
i'd like to make it as hassle free as possible...

> Which versions of libdvdcss does this work for?

the patch is for libdvdcss 1.2.6, but since the api looks quite stable
it should also apply on earlier versions.
 
> 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 ?


the dvdcss_open will simply fail like it would due other problems. it
should be fine since libdvdread check for error results.

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

ok, thanks!


regards,

Miguel