[VCDImager Bugs/Devel] vcdimager on BSD/OS 4.3

[Steven M. Schultz]

Hello -

        Recently I downloaded vcdimager-0.7.9 and ported it to BSD/OS 4.3
        (well, technically 4.3beta3 ;)).  Surprisingly few changes were
        required,  3 .c files and 3 Makefile.am files and the changes are
        minimal.

        Most of the changes to .c files simply augment the "defined(__linux__)" 
        with "defined(__bsdi__)" so that CD/DVD devices can be used with
        the "--cdrom-device" option.

        There is however one change to a .c file that deserves special mention.
        Using 'fseek' and 'fread' to access the ISO portion of a VCD can cause
        "illegal command for track" errors with some devices.  This is because 
        the 'raw' (/dev/rsr0c in BSD speak) device is used and the stdio 
        library functions assign an arbitrarily large (64KB) buffer to do I/O
        with.   Issuing a 64KB read instead of a 2KB read causes problems with
        some devices.  Since 'ioctl' is used to actually read the sectors later
        it seems to be a good idea to use 'lseek' and 'read' instead of stdio
        routines to access the ISO area.

        The Makefile.am changes are a _hack_, the way I did them is known not
        to be correct but I did not know how best to include additional 
        libraries on an OS dependant basis.   I needed to link programs against
        "-ldvd" which is a linux DVD/VCD/CD ioctl emulation library described
        below.

        I have a "libdvd" package (attached below) which emulated the Linux
        DVD/VCD ioctl calls.  The VideoLanClient ('vlc' from www.videolan.org)
        project has incorporated this into their 0.2.83 release so I know it
        works for at least one other program than vcdimager (and xine) ;)

        At any rate with the changes below I've successfully rip'd and created
        a VCD with vcdimager-0.7.9 under BSD/OS 4.3 so I'm submitting the
        changes for your consideration.
        
        I see that 0.7.10 was just announced as I typed this - oh well ;)

        Steven Schultz
        address@hidden

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Description: 0.7.9 diffs

libdvd.tar.bz2
Description: libdvd for BSD/OS