Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:03:37 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: making MP3s to fill my new HDD [LIB]
At 12:00 AM 17/03/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 07:53:16 >From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: making MP3s to fill my new HDD [LIB] > >>Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 06:13:05 +0000 >>From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: making MP3s to fill my new HDD [LIB] >> >>(Caution: Absolutely no Libretto content here... ) > >>>There will ALWAYS be a way of copying the audio. After all, if you wanted >>>to push it to the extreme, you could always play the CD in a half-decent CD >>>player, plug the digital out (or analogue out if they've protected digital >>>signals) into another device or a computer then just record. No way they >>>can stop that ... < > >You will always be able to read a digital data stream...after all, if you can't >decode it, you can't play it, so what's the point. Thats why I mentioned the analogue out bit as well. > However, the sp-dif domestic format includes a copy inhibit bit which recording >equipment is *supposed* to respect. I suppose the US govt will require that >unstreaming chips *must* obey, but it won't make any difference - professional >systems always ignore the copy bit. There will always be people figuring out how to 'patch' consumer equipment to ignore this stuff ... look at all the PlayStation mods. >>Heh... yeah... that was the very first thing I thought when I read that >>article... No stoppin' tappin' into that digital stream with a fancy lure! >> >>>schemes like the Anti-VCR stuff on DVDs won't fix that for instance because >>>there is no intelligence in the recorder that can be 'fooled' that can't be >>>'turned off'.< >> >>I had a fairly knowledgeable friend who works with videocassettes tell me >>that some new (in the past many years) VCRs (don't know about DVD players) >>ARE in fact made with copy protection that is written into SOME >>videocassettes ... and so keep them from being copied. Know anything >>about this Raymond? > >Again, there are various mechanisms to upset video recorders. The simplest is to put >a varying height pulse in the frame blanking pulse - on record, most domestic vcrs do >an automatic gain control based on the height of the sync pulse in blanking - so the >brightness of the rest of the frame is incorrect. Doesn't stop it being recorded, but >makes it unwatchable. Of course, a video signal processor will chop that straight out >again... ... as would transcoding onto a computer. And of course in the case of DVDs if you rip straight from a PC DVD drive then its a non-issue. - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net | | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
