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All right: The patch adresses two issues which I found, when I analyzed the input from some DVDs with known subtitle-dropouts: 1. The packet-size at the beginning of the packet, which is used to check, whether we got all fragments, is sometimes one byte too long. It seems to be always padded to an even number, while the actual size can be odd. 2. The original algorythm used to assemble the fragments relies on the timestamps to check, whether a new packet begins. This has proven to be unrelieable on some disks. So instead, I use the timestamp only to check, whether it's been too long (defined as 0,01sec) since the last fragment, which is probably indicating a broken packet, and normaly starting a new packet when the last one has been finished. patch by Christof Buergi <[e-mail]>

libdha - Library of Direct Hardware Access.
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This library was designed for direct hardware access under different
OS and architectures. It's not linux specific only (like harddrake
and other).

This library is based on gfxdump utility from GATOS project.
Full list of supported OS'es see in libdha.h

Note: This library requires ROOT privileges or SUID'ed executable
file (same as XServer).
(Or use newly developed libdha kernel helper. Look at kernelhelper/dhahelper.c)