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libudfread

brew install libudfread v1.2.0 LGPL-2.1-or-later

C library for reading Universal Disk Format (UDF) filesystems from optical and removable media.

Why you might care

Essential dependency for DVD/Blu-ray playback and disc image processing. Provides UDF parsing needed by VLC and other media applications to read optical media that uses this standard filesystem. Low-level library primarily used by other software rather than directly from the shell.

Categories

library file-utility

Alternatives

libdvdread libbluray
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Build dependencies

meson ninja

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