There were two major problems:
1. The legal issue of breaking DVD copy protection. There are no 100% legal DVD players on Linux that I know of. There is no public DVD-API on MacOS. I don't know about Windows.
I've thought about this. I see two options: either the user can rip the DVD's to their hard drive themselves using whichever program they have, or the disc can download DeCSS from the repository and install it automatically (it wouldn't be stored on the disc anywhere). After the patches are applied, they can either have it burn automatically, or just have the ISO (or the other options I mentioned, Divx, etc). So the Mac user wouldn't need DVD access if they ripped the discs beforehand, and then burned from the generated ISO.
2. For realtime playback, the computer and DVD-playing subsystem has to be fast enough to decode two streams in realtime. If you circumvent DVD copy protection, do you still get hardware acceleration? Does hardware acceleration support multiple streams and cutting in the middle of a GOP?
1. The legal issue of breaking DVD copy protection. There are no 100% legal DVD players on Linux that I know of. There is no public DVD-API on MacOS. I don't know about Windows.
I've thought about this. I see two options: either the user can rip the DVD's to their hard drive themselves using whichever program they have, or the disc can download DeCSS from the repository and install it automatically (it wouldn't be stored on the disc anywhere). After the patches are applied, they can either have it burn automatically, or just have the ISO (or the other options I mentioned, Divx, etc). So the Mac user wouldn't need DVD access if they ripped the discs beforehand, and then burned from the generated ISO.
2. For realtime playback, the computer and DVD-playing subsystem has to be fast enough to decode two streams in realtime. If you circumvent DVD copy protection, do you still get hardware acceleration? Does hardware acceleration support multiple streams and cutting in the middle of a GOP?
My system doesn't aim at realtime results, rather choice in edits and high quality results. The patches would be applied and output (and will probably take some time), then afterward you could burn the ISO, convert it to a computer format, etc. So you'd have a copy of your personal edit, generated by the tool. The disc would be running in a text console, so playback wouldn't be possible anyway (well I guess there's always SVGAlib). Playback isn't one of my goals for this project... that is handled better by other apps or hardware players.