I haven't tried it in Xine yet (actually I haven't tried to play it on my settop player either). I'll give both a try tonight.
I'll check on the libdvdread threads see if there's any update on this. Thanks everyone. -- Benjamin On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > 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
