Re:Reading your DVDs the RAW way (2007)
by userbinator on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:49AM
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IMHO open software/firmware would already be far more useful, because then you could read discs at a far lower level which greatly aids in data recovery situations; something like the optical disc version of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KryoFlux , in other words.
The hardware in a drive is very high precision but otherwise quite "mundane", as the article shows.
Micah (Scanlime) did some work on a Bluray player. Brace yourself - this is a real tour the force of reverse engineering: http://vimeo.com/110257380 https://hackaday.com/2014/10/30/reverse-engineering-a-blu-ra...
There is another "independent" firmware for a bluray players, pirate one for Xbox 360 ones :) somewhat hard to get your hands on the source.
Reading it reminded me (at least to the best of my knowledge at this point in time!) that THERE ARE NO OPEN HARDWARE CD/DVD PLAYERS.
I think some person or people should attempt a completely open hardware CD and/or DVD and/or Blu-Ray player...
I'd be happy with just a completely open hardware CD player...