On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 22:37 -0500, Benjamin Lawetz wrote: > Trying to play it in mplayer, the movie never starts. After googling a > bit, I found out these DVDs are protected by some stupid safety. An easy > workaround for mplayer is adding -sb 2500000 to the mplayer (seek > 2,500,000 bytes into the DVD) skips over the copy protection code and
I've run into this scheme in the past as well. IIRC, it's not "copy protection code," but intentionally damaged sectors that are not referenced. So settop players don't end up attempting to read these sectors, but less intelligent players (or full block copies) will get caught up in the bad region. I'm curious, does it play with Xine? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
