[DVDnav-discuss] I/O Callbacks

[Nico Sabbi]

On Wednesday 11 June 2008 13:08:22 Andreas Öman wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've been thinking about adding the ability for dvdnav/dvdread
> applications to provide replacement callbacks for open() / close()
> / read() / seek(), in order to support reading of DVDs from
> "virtualized filesystems" or similar things. (UPnP servers, etc).
>
> It should be rather straightforward I think.
>
> This brings up two questions:
>
> a) Is this something other here are interested in? API opinions?

please, explain what you need: an abstraction layer that
permit you to access a dvd navigation across a remote
file-system? such as dvdnav over smb:// or ftp:// ?
It could be useful to have

>
> b) It needs to be done for libdvdcss as well which is not
> maintained here. Is it actively maintained? I think it's hosted at
> videolan.org. Does anyone here know how to get in contact with the
> maintainers?
>

it's never been updated very frequently, as far as I can tell