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Matthew Jackson 3db4106253 Stop documenting the recovery API that 1.6.0 deleted
Disc::sweep, Disc::patch, Disc::copy, SweepOptions and PatchOptions have
zero occurrences in src/ — recovery moved to freemkv-engine — but they were
still documented in 30 places across README.md, TROUBLESHOOTING.md, six
files under docs/, seven src/ doc comments and a Cargo.toml comment.
README.md is the crate's GitHub front page and carried a full multi-pass
code example that cannot compile.

Two of the src/ references were intra-doc LINKS to deleted items
([`disc::Disc::copy`], [`disc::Disc::patch`] in scsi/mod.rs). They produced
no warning on a normal `cargo doc` only because they sit on pub(crate)
items; `--document-private-items` reports both, and they are gone now.

The README example is deleted rather than rewritten against the engine's
API: libfreemkv documenting a downstream crate's API on its own front page
is the drift that produced this, and it cannot even depend on it. The src/
references become plain code spans naming freemkv_engine::recovery::* —
deliberately not links, for the same reason.

docs/rip-recovery.md was 202 lines about relocated code. It now documents
only what this crate owns — Drive::read, SenseFamily, DiscStream's adaptive
batch halving — plus the read-path design constraints, which belong with the
code that enforces them, and points at freemkv-engine/src/recovery/ for the
strategy. api-design.md's module tree is regenerated from the real src/disc/
and src/drive/ layouts instead of hand-patched; it had listed sweep.rs,
patch.rs, mapfile.rs and read_error.rs, none of which exist.

Three stale facts surfaced while rewriting and are corrected: the read
timeouts are 10 s / 60 s, not the documented 1.5 s / 30 s; Drive::reset and
SgIoTransport::reset no longer exist at all, so "no SCSI reset from any read
path" is now stated as the stronger fact it has become; and verify_title,
listed as a progress-emitting operation, was removed entirely.

CHANGELOG.md keeps its references — those are the historical record of the
releases that shipped the API.
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Disc to Rip: End-to-End Flow

How libfreemkv goes from a disc in the drive to decrypted content ready for backup. This is the starting point for understanding the library.

The Pipeline

Insert disc
    │
    ▼
1. Open drive (drive/mod.rs)
    │  INQUIRY → identify drive (DriveId)
    │
    ▼
2. Init drive (drive/mod.rs → unlock seam)
    │  Walk the registered-unlocker registry; first match unlocks the drive
    │  (firmware/vendor handshakes are the unlocker's own business)
    │  No match → drive untouched; host-cert AACS handshake carries the disc
    │  Speed control → probe_disc()
    │
    ▼
3. AACS handshake (aacs/handshake.rs) — optional
    │  Allocate AGID
    │  Exchange certificates + nonces (ECDH)
    │  Derive bus key
    │  Read Volume ID + read_data_key
    │  (fails gracefully if drive doesn't support AACS for this disc)
    │
    ▼
4. Read UDF filesystem (udf.rs)
    │  Sector 256: AVDP → find Volume Descriptor Sequence
    │  VDS: Partition Descriptor (physical start) + Logical Volume (metadata start)
    │  Metadata partition → File Set Descriptor → Root directory
    │  Walk directory tree: BDMV/, AACS/, CERTIFICATE/
    │  → docs/udf.md
    │
    ▼
5. Read AACS files from disc (aacs/mod.rs)
    │  AACS/Unit_Key_RO.inf → SHA1 = disc hash
    │  AACS/Content000.cer → AACS version (1.0 or 2.0), bus encryption flag
    │  MKB via SCSI → for key derivation fallback
    │
    ▼
6. Resolve encryption keys (decrypt.rs → resolve_encryption)
    │  BD AACS:
    │    Path 1: disc hash → KEYDB.cfg → VUK (fast, 99% of discs)
    │    Path 2: KEYDB media key + Volume ID → VUK
    │    Path 3: MKB + processing keys → media key → VUK
    │    Path 4: MKB + device keys → subset-difference tree → VUK
    │    VUK → decrypt unit keys from Unit_Key_RO.inf
    │  DVD CSS:
    │    Table-driven cipher — no KEYDB needed
    │  → docs/aacs.md
    │
    ▼
7. Parse playlists (mpls.rs) — BD/UHD only
    │  BDMV/PLAYLIST/*.mpls → titles with play items
    │  Each play item: clip ID, in/out timestamps
    │  STN table: video, audio, subtitle streams with codec + language
    │  → docs/mpls.md
    │
    ▼
8. Parse clip info (clpi.rs) — BD/UHD only
    │  BDMV/CLIPINF/*.clpi → EP map (timestamp → sector mapping)
    │  Coarse + fine entries → full PTS and SPN
    │  SPN → byte offset → sector extents for reading
    │  → docs/clpi.md
    │
    ▼
9. Parse BD-J labels (labels/) — optional
    │  BDMV/JAR/*.jar → Java class constant pool strings
    │  5 format parsers: Paramount, Criterion, Pixelogic, CTRM, Deluxe
    │  Audio track labels: "English Descriptive Audio", "French 5.1", etc.
    │
    ▼
10. Stream content (mux/disc.rs → DiscStream)
     │  Read sectors → decrypt → TS demux → PES frames
     │  Or: read sectors → decrypt → raw bytes (for ISO output)
     │  Drive::read() is single-shot. DiscStream::fill_extents adapts the
     │  batch size on failure (halve / probe-up). Bad-range retry is layer
     │  1 above this — freemkv_engine::recovery::patch re-runs against the mapfile.
     │
     ▼
  PES frames → output stream (MKV, M2TS, network, etc.)

API Summary

// Open + init drive
let mut drive = Drive::open(Path::new("/dev/sg4"))?;
drive.wait_ready()?;
drive.init()?;
drive.probe_disc()?;

// Scan disc (UDF + playlists + AACS — all automatic)
let disc = Disc::scan(&mut drive, &ScanOptions::default())?;

// Stream pipeline — PES frames from any source to any output.
// input() returns Box<dyn FrameSource>, output() returns Box<dyn FrameSink>;
// direction is type-checked, so calling .write() on an input is a compile error.
let opts = InputOptions::default();
let mut input = libfreemkv::input("disc:///dev/sg4", &opts)?;
let title = input.info().clone();
let mut output = libfreemkv::output("mkv://Movie.mkv", &title)?;
while let Ok(Some(frame)) = input.read() {
    output.write(&frame)?;
}
output.finish()?;

Module Reference

Module Doc Purpose
drive/ drive-access.md Open, identify, init, unlock, single-shot read
scsi/ drive-access.md Platform SCSI transport (Linux, macOS, Windows)
udf.rs udf.md UDF 2.50 filesystem
mpls.rs mpls.md MPLS playlists + STN streams
clpi.rs clpi.md CLPI clip info + EP map
ifo.rs -- DVD IFO parser
aacs/ aacs.md Key resolution + content decrypt + bus handshake
css/ -- DVD CSS cipher
decrypt.rs -- Unified decrypt dispatcher (AACS/CSS/None)
disc/ rip-recovery.md Disc::scan (sweep/patch/mapfile moved to freemkv-engine in 1.6.0)
labels/ -- BD-J stream labels (5 format parsers)
mux/ -- Stream implementations (7 stream types)
pes.rs -- PES frame types + FrameSource / FrameSink traits
sector/ -- SectorSource / SectorSink + DecryptingSectorSource decorator
io/ -- Pipeline<I, R> + Sink trait + WritebackFile
halt.rs -- Halt cancellation token
keydb.rs -- KEYDB download, parse, save
error.rs -- Error codes (E1xxx-E8xxx)
event.rs -- Drive event system