document discatt.dat format?

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thetoad
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document discatt.dat format?

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Is it possible to document the discatt format?

The reason I ask is that while I like makemkv if I'm making mkv's, if my goal is to make a full disc backup that is playable, I need to use a tool like anydvd (while makemkv works for non java discs, it mostly doesnt for discs with java based protections (ex: all the playlist digging). Main problem: anydvd runs only in windows, and I do my primary ripping in linux (another reason I like makemkv). However, anydvd works fine with iso images that are mounted if it already knows the VUK (and I believe it can use the normal libaacs text db) which I'm guessing is stored within the discatt.dat file and hence can generate the vuk from within linux, but still make a playable full disc backup.

thoughts on documenting the format?
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Re: document discatt.dat format?

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thetoad wrote:
Wed Jun 19, 2019 9:39 pm
Is it possible to document the discatt format?
It is not only documented, but the libdriveio library that creates and parses it is open-source (LGPL license). All of this is part of MakeMKV open-source package for Linux (library obviously can be built anywhere).
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Re: document discatt.dat format?

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ok, need to figure out how to wrap my head around coding up something simple for it then.
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