On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 09:23, Steven Farris <[email protected]> wrote: > I had Aero and other basic effects working. I put a commercially *paid for* > DVD into the player, and as usual VirtualBox didn't recognize it.
Short version: You will save a lot of time and frustration with dvd player region codings by installing "AnyDVD" a piece of commercial software (available on a 15 or 30 day trial I believe) , and it will take care of both the RPC code of the drive (to match the drive region with the inserted disk region) and also automagically decrypt content, so you can simply copy the folders from the dvd to your hard drive and play the copied video_ts folder from your hard drive (or pen drive, or dvd-r data disc), just by double clicking on the .vob and or .ifo file(s) with a media player like VLC. Long version: There´s two parts necessary for dvd decryption, first there´s RPC which is the region coding of the drive that reads the optical media. Ten years ago, the trick with 1st-gen DVD-ROM and DVD-RW drives was setting the drive´s firmware to "region 0" (which doesn´t exist by the way) and which acted as a "wildcard" so to speak, accepting discs of all regions. Then a new spec was released, RPC-2 which closed this loophole. (I believe rpc-2 drives can no longer be set to region 0, and while you can manually change the region setting of the drive from the drive´s property settings, that is limited per firmware to a limited number of changes (say 5 to 15 changes in the lifetime of the drive). THEN there´s the issue of decryption and copying the files. Well, as I said in the "short version", installing AnyDVD takes care of both problems. http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html But I guess it should work, even in a vm. FC PS: No, I haven´t tried anydvd on a virtualbox vm because I play my dvds on stand-alone dvd players (hardware) hooked to my TVs. PS2: I wonder if it wouldn´t be better for you to run a Linux dvd player natively? Or there´s some special need for you to do it inside Windows?. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
