Petter Reinholdtsen

Today I came across an unexpected Ubuntu boot screen. Above the bread shelf on the ICA shop at Storo, the grub menu of Ubuntu with Linux kernel 3.2.0-23 (ie probably version 12.04 LTS) was stuck on a screen normally showing the bread types and prizes:

If it had booted as it was supposed to, I would never had known about this hidden Linux installation. It is interesting what errors can reveal.

The lsdvd project got a new set of developers a few weeks ago, after the original developer decided to step down and pass the project to fresh blood. This project is now maintained by Petter Reinholdtsen and Steve Dibb.

I just wrapped up a new lsdvd release, available in git or from the download page. This is the changelog dated 2014-10-03 for version 0.17.

• Ignore 'phantom' audio, subtitle tracks
• Check for garbage in the program chains, which indicate that a track is non-existant, to work around additional copy protection
• Fix displaying content type for audio tracks, subtitles
• Fix pallete display of first entry
• Fix include orders
• Ignore read errors in titles that would not be displayed anyway
• Fix the chapter count
• Make sure the array size and the array limit used when initialising the palette size is the same.
• Fix array printing.
• Correct subsecond calculations.
• Add sector information to the output format.
• Clean up code to be closer to ANSI C and compile without warnings with more GCC compiler warnings.

This change bring together patches for lsdvd in use in various Linux and Unix distributions, as well as patches submitted to the project the last nine years. Please check it out. :)