alt Hacker News> The original reason behind the DVD scrambling system "needing" to be cracked was the lack of software DVD players for the Linux operating system.
Also, this is a false history, and more of an ex-post-facto justification.
The original DeCSS was a VisualBasic program written by some W1nd0z h8X0r teenager. Not for any greater cause, just because they could.
Internet says nothing about that; and using VB for DeCSS it's as 'serious' as quickly hacking Perl or TCL (for its day) in order to complete a simple prototype.
If any I can just see C++ code which is pretty much portable because you can decouple I/O with ease, altough under Unix you would need to use ioctl's to command the DVD drive in a low level way.
https://github.com/cthpw103/decss
But for just decoding a dumped ISO Perl would be more than enough, from parsing UDF headers to unscramble the media.
It would last hours instead of 15 minutes under my Athlon 2000 but if would work the same.