dvdread | Read deCSSed DVD image

dvdread is a C library. dvdread has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

the dvdread utility allows you to create decssed image of protected dvd. what you do with the resulting image is your own business, not sony's or some other guy's one. if you attempt to read scrambled dvd directly with cp/dd/readom, you'll get i/o error (read of scrambled sector without authentication) on all scrambled sectors and any workarounds like dd_rescue will just produce damaged mpeg. dvdread depends on libdvdcss (and libdvdread (libraries. to build dvdread on debian gnu/linux system you need to install libdvdread-dev package from main repository and libdvdcss-dev one from www.deb-multimedia.org. example usage: ./dvdread /dev/sr0 >akira_decss.iso mplayer -dvd-device akira_decss.iso dvdnav://menu. dvdread looks for dvd region restriction mask inside the video_ts.ifo and video_ts.bup files and resets it to 0xc0 if it's not zero and doesn't equal to 0xc0 already. this means that the produced decssed image file can be written onto dvd-r/rw media and the resulting disc should be playable in any region. dvdread prints progress and error messages to stderr and dumps decssed stream to stdout. if you want to debug, run it with dvdcss_verbose envvar, e.g.: dvdcss_verbose=2 ./dvdread /dev/sr0 >/x/y/z. sector 2009702: libdvdcss debug: getting title key at block 2009702