Mercurial > mplayer.hg
changeset 20426:192efe61abaa
Remove confusing and probably wrong paragraph about libdvdcss.
| author | diego |
|---|---|
| date | Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:08:28 +0000 |
| parents | f59726d0761e |
| children | cca07f6ff5b6 |
| files | DOCS/xml/en/cd-dvd.xml |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/DOCS/xml/en/cd-dvd.xml Wed Oct 25 11:55:06 2006 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/cd-dvd.xml Wed Oct 25 12:08:28 2006 +0000 @@ -181,68 +181,11 @@ <para> DVD decryption is done by <systemitem>libdvdcss</systemitem>. The method can be specified through the <envar>DVDCSS_METHOD</envar> environment -variable, which can be set to key, disk or title. +variable, see the manual page for details. </para> </formalpara> <para> -If nothing is specified it tries the following methods (default: key, -title request): -</para> - -<orderedlist> -<listitem><para> -<emphasis role="bold">bus key</emphasis>: This key is negotiated during -authentication (a long mix of ioctls and various key exchanges, crypto -stuff) and is used to encrypt the title and disk keys before sending them -over the unprotected bus (to prevent eavesdropping). The bus key is needed -to get and predecrypt the crypted disk key. -</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para> -<emphasis role="bold">cached key</emphasis>: <application>MPlayer</application> -looks for already cracked title keys which are stored in the -<filename class="directory">~/.dvdcss</filename> directory (fast). -</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para> -<emphasis role="bold">key</emphasis>: If no cached key is available, -<application>MPlayer</application> tries to decrypt the disk key with a set -of included player keys. -</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para> -<emphasis role="bold">disk</emphasis>: If the key method fails -(e.g. no included player keys), <application>MPlayer</application> -will crack the disk key using a brute force algorithm. This process -is CPU intensive and requires 64 MB of memory (16M 32Bit entries hash -table) to store temporary data. This method should always work (slow). -</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para> -<emphasis role="bold">title request</emphasis>: With the disk key -<application>MPlayer</application> requests the crypted title keys, -which are inside <emphasis>hidden sectors</emphasis> using <systemitem>ioctl()</systemitem>. -The region protection of RPC-2 drives is performed in this step and may fail on such drives. -If it succeeds, the title keys will be decrypted with the bus and disk key. -</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para> -<emphasis role="bold">title</emphasis>: This method is used if the title -request failed and does not rely on any key exchange with the DVD drive. -It uses a crypto attack to guess the title key directly (by finding a -repeating pattern in the decrypted VOB content and guessing that the -plain text corresponding to the first encrypted bytes is a continuation -of that pattern). The method is also known as "known plaintext attack" -or "DeCSSPlus". In rare cases this may fail because there is not -enough encrypted data on the disk to perform a statistical attack or because -the key changes in the middle of a title. This method is the only way to -decrypt a DVD stored on a hard disk or a DVD with the wrong region on an -RPC2 drive (slow). -</para></listitem> -</orderedlist> - -<para> RPC-1 DVD drives only protect region settings through software. RPC-2 drives have a hardware protection that allows 5 changes only. It might be needed/recommended to upgrade the firmware to RPC-1 if you have a RPC-2 DVD