On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:45:50AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Not sure about the version number, but what you're talking about are the > > DVD specific ioctl's. DVDs have worked under linux as expensive > > CD-drives for as long as they existed. > > This support you're talking about enables to do stuff like decyphering > > the DVD content on DVD movies and the likes, and are not needed to read > > an audio CD. > > I can rip the video off my dvd drive with my completely unpatched > 2.2.17 kernel. I had to patch previous 2.2 kernels, but I don't > remember the version numbers. You can assume 2.2.12 needed patching > ... maybe even 2.2.15. Decrypting the encrypted dvds is a whole > other story. >
Bastien was talking about deciphering (as in grok, not as in the opposite of enciphering or encrypting) the filesystem on DVDs. I think he's saying you could always read the raw data from them, but you couldn't mount them or do anything other than get the data without the stuff that went into 2.2.17. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
