> Hi all, > > I've recently purchased the Dark Knight DVD. Upon inserting it into my > Freevo system, Freevo crashed. > > 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 > allows playing the DVD properly. So I have my solution for playing it in > Freevo (adding the -sb 25000000 to all DVD doesn't skip much (you might > miss the FBI Warning, that's all so I don't mind putting that command > for all DVDs). But why does Freevo crash when I insert this DVD? Anybody > else have this problem? > The logs don't seem to show anything of interest. > Running Freevo 1.8.3 on a Gentoo system > Ah, interesting... I did wonder what was wrong with it when I rented this DVD!
I ended up being able to play it using Kaffine on my laptop without any problems, I don't know what the difference is. My biggest problem is more and more DVDs seem to be including this, and I store all my DVDs on a hard disk ripped rather than having to find the physical disk all the time, and so far I cannot copy the ones with this protection. I wonder if it is possible to do a similar skip when copying? I usually use k9copy to remove sub-titles, extra languages and extras, but that simply doesn't work for those sort of DVDs. Perhaps the answer is to do a full copy skipping the first few bytes, then re-master the resulting copy? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
