Goals and features

libdvdread is a library for simple navigation of DVD (DVDs without menus).

Written in C, cross-platform, it gives low-level access to DVD structures.

It works well in conjunction with libdvdnav (menus) and libdvdcss (cipher).

Where does it come from?

This library is based on a lot of code and expertise from the Ogle project. Ogle was the first DVD player who implemented free DVD navigation. The libdvdread developers wish to express their gratitude to the Ogle people for all the valuable research work they have done.

Initially, the dvdnav code was part of a plugin to the xine media player called xine-dvdnav. Later on, the DVD VM specific code was split from xine-dvdnav and went into the first version of libdvdnav.

Then, it was forked, and forked again on MPlayer repositories. libdvdnav and libdvdread were merged, and then split again.

Where is it now?

Libdvdread is hosted here.

Libdvdnav is hosted here.

You can find more information here

Please report bugs to the developers mailinglist at dvdnav mailing list

License

Libdvdread is completely licensed under GPLv2/v3. You may use it at wish within the bounds of this license. See the file COPYING for a copy of the GPL.

Using libdvdread

A detailed description of DVD structures is available here

All documentation is also accessible here

Deciphering disks

Libdvdread does not do any decryption of the CSS algorithm. This task can be delegated to libdvdcss.

Install libdvdcss from source or from your distribution (libdvd-pkg) to play full DVDs, if your country allows this to work legally.

Note that libdvdnav is useful for interactive DVD menus.

CoC

The VideoLAN Code of Conduct applies to this project.