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removing last pitiful traces of old-style DVD support, with no remorse, but utter cruelty

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In case of DVD decoding problems, try disabling supermount, or any other such
facilities.
</para></note>

<formalpara>
<title>Old-style DVD support - OPTIONAL</title>
<para>
Useful if you want to play encoded VOBs from <emphasis role="bold">hard disk</emphasis>.
Compile and install <emphasis role="bold">libcss</emphasis> 0.0.1 (not newer) for this
(If <application>MPlayer</application> fails to detect it, use the
<option>-csslib /path/to/libcss.so</option> option). To use it, you need to be root,
use a suid root <application>MPlayer</application> binary or let
<application>MPlayer</application> call the suid-root fibmap_mplayer wrapper program.
</para>
</formalpara>

<formalpara>
<title>DVD structure</title>
<para>
DVD disks have 2048 bytes per sector with ECC/CRC. They usually have an UDF
filesystem on a single track, containing various files (small .IFO and .BUK
files and big (1GB) .VOB files). They are real files and can be copied/played

addressing of sectors of the disc to implement DVD navigation or decrypt the
content.
</para>

<para>
The whole old-style DVD support with <systemitem>libcss</systemitem> therefore
needs a mounted DVD filesystem and raw sector-based access to the device.
Unfortunately you must (under Linux) be root to get the sector address of a
file. You have the following choices:

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Be root or use a suid-root <application>MPlayer</application> binary.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>
Let <application>MPlayer</application> call the suid-root fibmap_mplayer
wrapper program to access the DVD (used in the old-style DVD playback over
<systemitem>libcss</systemitem>).
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>
Don't use the kernel's filesystem driver at all and reimplement it in
userspace. <systemitem>libdvdread</systemitem> 0.9.x and <systemitem>libmpdvdkit</systemitem>
do this (new-style DVD support). The kernel UDF filesystem driver is not
needed as they already have their own builtin UDF filesystem driver.
Also the DVD does not have to be mounted as only the raw sector-based
access is used.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>

<para>
Sometimes <filename>/dev/dvd</filename> cannot be read by users, so the
<systemitem>libdvdread</systemitem> authors implemented an emulation layer

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In case of DVD decoding problems, try disabling supermount, or any other such
facilities.
</para></note>

<formalpara>
<title>DVD structure</title>
<para>
DVD disks have 2048 bytes per sector with ECC/CRC. They usually have an UDF
filesystem on a single track, containing various files (small .IFO and .BUK
files and big (1GB) .VOB files). They are real files and can be copied/played

addressing of sectors of the disc to implement DVD navigation or decrypt the
content.
</para>

<para>
DVD support needs raw sector-based access to the device. Unfortunately you must
(under Linux) be root to get the sector address of a file. That's why we don't
use the kernel's filesystem driver at all, instead we reimplement it in
userspace. <systemitem>libdvdread</systemitem> 0.9.x and
<systemitem>libmpdvdkit</systemitem> do this. The kernel UDF filesystem driver
is not needed as they already have their own builtin UDF filesystem driver.
Also the DVD does not have to be mounted as only the raw sector-based access is
used.
</para>

<para>
Sometimes <filename>/dev/dvd</filename> cannot be read by users, so the
<systemitem>libdvdread</systemitem> authors implemented an emulation layer