[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS cd-dvd.html,1.46,1.47

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 04:36:55PM +0100, Jonas Jermann CVS wrote:
> -<P>Useful if you want to play encoded VOBs from hard disk. Compile and
> +<P>Useful if you want to play encoded VOBs from <B>hard disk</B>. Compile and
>    install <B>libcss</B> 0.0.1 (not newer) for this (If MPlayer fails to
> -  detect it, use the <CODE>-csslib /path/to/libcss.so</CODE> option).</P>
> +  detect it, use the <CODE>-csslib /path/to/libcss.so</CODE> option). You need
> +  to be root or use a suid root binary to use it.</P>

or the suid fibmap_mplayer program while mplayer can be started as user :)

> +<P>The whole old-style DVD support with libcss needs therefore a mounted DVD
> +filesystem and a raw sector-based access to the device. Unfortunately you must
> +be root (under Linux) to get the sector address of a file. You got two choices:</P>
> +
> +<UL>
> +  <LI>Force the user to be root or use a suid root mplayer binary like
> +    fibmap_mplayer which does the dvd access for the old-style DVD playback
> +    over libcss.</LI>


A little confusing. fibmap_mplayer is NOT a suid root MPLAYER binary, it's
a LITTLE wrapper program called by mplayer (source is fibmap_mplayer.c,
below 1K in its size).

- Gábor (larta'H)