lgb@lgb.hu said:

dvdcss = dvdcss_open( ppsz_argv[1], DVDCSS_INIT_QUIET ); dvdcss_seek( dvdcss, i_sector ); As you can see with libdvdcss you MUST know the starting sector of the object as well...

why? the lib has no concept of the .VOB file "object", because it just views the video stream as a linear stream of sectors. I believe that's the point of libdvdcss...you don't have to worry about the authentication, you just seek by sector and it handles all the decrypting. of course, i don't know what i'm talking about. i need to go read some code and keep my mouth shut. :)

The API is block oriented and there is NO option for opening a FILE. So without an IFO parser we must use FIBMAP with libdvdcss too

yes, but i think there is enough GPL IFO parsing code in both videolan and ogle to do that. I'm just speculating here, i haven't had time to go over the code. But i know that videolan works great for playing dvds, without mounting the dvd and without being root.

... ANd I've got the bad feeling that I cannot controll authentication and descrambling freely enough with libdvdcss compared to use libcss.

i doubt it. videolan has better seeking capabilites for dvd than mplayer. the only reason i don't use videolan for dvd watching is that it's not as fast as mplayer and it likes to crash. jason _______________________________________________ Mplayer-dev-eng mailing list Mplayer-dev-eng@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng