libdvdread provides a simple foundation for reading DVD video disks. It provides the functionality that is required to access many DVDs. It parses IFO files, reads NAV-blocks, and performs CSS authentication and descrambling.
| Tags | multimedia Video Conversion Filesystems |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX BSD FreeBSD Linux Solaris Mac OS X BSD/OS NetBSD OpenBSD |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases


Release Notes: A bug that triggered a segfault if DVDClose was called more than once (when using several DVDOpen calls) was fixed.


Release Notes: The new DVDFileStat() function was added. A prefix is no longer added to the DVD device name on FreeBSD and Dragonfly. Some minor bugfixes and documentation were added.


Release Notes: This release includes better error handling, memory leak fixes, bugfixes, and some support for multi-threaded apps.


Release Notes: This release adds the functions DVDDiscID, DVDUDFVolumeInfo, and DVDISOVolumeInfo, types, read, and print functions for VTS_TMAPT (Time map table), and Multichannel Extension. PLT_MAIT (Parental Management) info has been corrected. This release can be compiled with Sun's Forte C compiler. All asserts have been removed. Various other fixes have been made.


Release Notes: Support for MacOS X / Darwin has been added. It has been ported to use libdvdcss2 (version 1.2.0 or later is needed) and can now decrypt files on a normal file system. This version is more tolerant of incorrectly mastered DVDs and includes build robustness fixes.