Matthew Jackson
8b8bcff106
Second pass over src/aacs and src/css. No production change; the only
non-test edits are two fixture bytes and one test rename.
Five latent panics on untrusted data, every guard correct and none
tested — so each was free to be deleted:
variant.rs:224 a 0x04 record not a multiple of 5 indexes p_uv[0..4]
off a one-byte tail
variant.rs:269 a 0x0c record shorter than the 0x04 slot count
slices past the cvalue table
stevenson.rs:177 short sector read -> index 138 into a 129-byte slice
stevenson.rs:208 a crib longer than the 1920-byte encrypted region
-> index 2058 into 2048
stevenson.rs:272 a header periodic all the way to offset 0 ->
subtract with overflow
That last one is reachable from ORDINARY DVD data — constant or padding
bytes are periodic. Verified on HEAD: widening the guard to <= 0x80
passes all 64 css tests unmutated.
media_key_variant_from_kp had only a soft-correction test, so every
step past that early return was unexecuted. The new two-slot fixture
puts the covering slot at index 1, so the uvs[1 + 5*idx] and
cvalues[idx*16] strides stop multiplying by zero.
derive.rs:319 + -> - confirmed killable, as the first pass predicted:
p == 0 makes (p-1)..32 underflow. Every prior fixture used a uv whose
lowest set bit was 4, 10 or 11, so trailing_zeros() was never 0.
One fixture bug caught and fixed rather than papered over: a |= mutant
first SURVIVED because mk[14]'s 0x04 bit happened to be set, making OR
and XOR agree. The byte is now clear and an assert_eq! pins it, so the
fixture cannot drift back into agreeing with the mutation it exists to
catch.
walk_mkb_be24_high_byte_is_honored renamed to
walk_mkb_be24_middle_byte_is_honored. Its 0x00_0110 length exercises
the << 8 term only, which is why << 16 -> >> 16 survived it. The name
was the lie; both framings are worth having, and the comment now points
at the genuine high-byte test at 0x01_0004.
derive.rs 146:32 and 154:30 stay untested, now with a proof rather than
a judgement: bit_pos == -1 requires current_v_mask == 0xFFFF_FFFF, and
calc_v_mask can never return that — its loop condition holds at
!v_mask == 0, so it always shifts at least once. Both branches are
reachable only after the walk has gone non-convergent and is heading
for the bounded exit, where the return value is undefined. Termination
is already pinned.
Equivalents proven by observing green, including six more OR/XOR pairs
on provably disjoint bit fields, and the two KEY_CORRECTION_DATA sites
where the constant is the documented all-zero placeholder so x ^ 0 ==
x | 0. Those become killable only if a real per-licensee KCD is wired
in.
A partial confirmation sweep (138 of 415 mutants before the box
saturated) found 135 caught, one timeout that is itself a detection,
and exactly one survivor — the KEY_CORRECTION_DATA equivalent above.
libfreemkv
Rust library for 4K UHD / Blu-ray / DVD optical drives. Drive access, disc scanning, stream labels, AACS decryption, CSS decryption, KEYDB updates, and content reading in one crate. Drive-level unlocking is handled internally; consumers work with disc access and decryption only.
DVDs (CSS) decrypt out of the box. Blu-ray and UHD (AACS) require a keydb.cfg (default ~/.config/freemkv/keydb.cfg) supplying disc-specific volume unique keys; no AACS key material is compiled in.
12+ MB/s sustained read speeds on BD. Drive prep (init()) handles unlocking internally via the freemkv-unlock crate — clients never see it; when no drive unlock applies, the library rips via the host-certificate AACS handshake.
Multi-lingual by design — the library outputs structured data and numeric error codes, never English text. Build any UI or localization on top.
Part of the freemkv project.
Install
Consumed by git tag (not published to crates.io):
[dependencies]
libfreemkv = { git = "https://github.com/freemkv/libfreemkv", tag = "vX.Y.Z" }
Quick Start
use libfreemkv::{Drive, Disc, ScanOptions};
use std::path::Path;
// Open drive — identified via INQUIRY
let mut drive = Drive::open(Path::new("/dev/sg4"))?;
drive.wait_ready()?; // wait for disc
drive.init()?; // unlock + prep (handled internally)
drive.probe_disc()?; // probe disc surface for optimal speeds
// Scan disc — UDF, playlists, streams, AACS (all automatic)
let disc = Disc::scan(&mut drive, &ScanOptions::default())?;
for title in &disc.titles {
println!("{} — {} streams", title.duration_display(), title.streams.len());
}
// Stream pipeline — read PES frames from any source, write to any output
let opts = libfreemkv::InputOptions::default();
let mut input = libfreemkv::input("iso://Disc.iso", &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()?;
Multi-pass recovery rip
Recovery moved OUT of this crate in 1.6.0. The sweep/patch strategy, the
ddrescue mapfile, damage classification and the multipass loop now live in the
freemkv-engine crate as freemkv_engine::recovery::{copy, sweep, patch}.
libfreemkv keeps the layers underneath: the raw single-shot read
(Drive::read) and the SCSI-fact translation (SenseFamily) that the engine's
strategy is built on. The dependency runs engine → libfreemkv, so this crate
cannot call into it; front-ends get recovery from the engine directly. See
docs/rip-recovery.md for what stayed here.
What It Does
- Drive access — open, identify, internal unlock + prep, speed control, eject
- 12+ MB/s reads — auto-detects kernel transfer limits, sustained full speed
- Disc scanning — UDF 2.50 filesystem, MPLS playlists, CLPI clip info
- Stream labels — 5 BD-J format parsers (Paramount, Criterion, Pixelogic, CTRM, Deluxe)
- AACS decryption — transparent key resolution and content decrypt (1.0 + 2.0 bus decryption)
- KEYDB updates — download, verify, save from any HTTP URL (zero deps, raw TCP)
- Content reading — adaptive batch reads with automatic decryption
- Stream I/O — unified stream pipeline for reading and writing any format
Streams
| Stream | Input | Output | Transport |
|---|---|---|---|
| DiscStream | Yes | -- | Optical drive via SCSI |
| IsoStream | Yes | -- | Blu-ray ISO image file (read via stream pipeline; written by freemkv_engine::recovery) |
| MkvStream | Yes | Yes | Matroska container |
| M2tsStream | Yes | Yes | BD transport stream with FMKV metadata header |
| NetworkStream | Yes (listen) | Yes (connect) | TCP with FMKV metadata header |
| StdioStream | Yes (stdin) | Yes (stdout) | Raw byte pipe |
| NullStream | -- | Yes | Discard sink (byte counter for benchmarks) |
Streams implement a single unified pes::Stream trait (re-exported as PesStream) exposing read() and write() on one type. input() / output() resolve URL strings to PES stream instances. All URLs use the scheme://path format — bare paths are rejected.
Keys
DVDs (CSS) decrypt out of the box, with no external key file needed.
Blu-rays and UHD (AACS) require a keydb.cfg at ~/.config/freemkv/keydb.cfg (or passed via ScanOptions). No AACS key material is compiled into the binary.
Architecture
Drive — open, identify, init, single-shot read
├── ScsiTransport — SG_IO (Linux), IOKit (macOS), SPTI (Windows)
└── unlock_bridge — private seam to the freemkv-unlock crate
(firmware / AACS cert / CSS bus-auth unlockers)
Disc — scan titles, streams, AACS/CSS state
├── UDF reader — Blu-ray UDF 2.50 with metadata partitions
├── MPLS parser — playlists → titles + clips + streams
├── CLPI parser — clip info → EP map → sector extents
├── IFO parser — DVD title sets, PGC chains, cell addresses
├── Labels — 5 BD-J format parsers (detect + parse)
├── AACS — key resolution + content decryption
├── CSS — DVD CSS (bus auth → player-key disc crack → known-plaintext title-key attack)
└── KEYDB — download + verify + save
Streams — unified PES pipeline
├── PesStream — pes::Stream: one trait, read()/write() PES frames
├── DiscStream — sectors → decrypt → TS demux → PES
├── IsoStream — ISO file → decrypt → TS demux → PES
├── MkvStream — MKV mux/demux
├── M2tsStream — BD transport stream
├── NetworkStream — TCP with FMKV metadata header
├── StdioStream — stdin/stdout pipe
└── NullStream — discard sink
See docs/ for detailed technical documentation on each module.
Error Codes
All errors are structured with numeric codes. No user-facing English text — applications format their own messages.
| Range | Category |
|---|---|
| E1xxx | Device errors (not found, permission) |
| E2xxx | Profile errors (unsupported drive) |
| E3xxx | Unlock errors (failed, signature) |
| E4xxx | SCSI errors (command failed, timeout) |
| E5xxx | I/O errors |
| E6xxx | Disc format errors |
| E7xxx | AACS errors |
| E8xxx | KEYDB update errors |
| E9xxx | Stream / mux errors (URL, PES, ISO, pipeline, demux) |
Platform Support
| Platform | Status | Backend |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Supported | SG_IO ioctl |
| macOS | Supported | IOKit SCSITask |
| Windows | Supported | SPTI |
Contributing
Run freemkv info disc:// --share with the freemkv CLI to capture your drive's identity for contribution. Drive-unlock profiles are maintained in the freemkv-unlock repository.
License
MIT