Benjamin Lawetz wrote:
> 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.

If you want you can try the attached patch and rebuild libdvdread.
Should work with the dark knight.

Duncan

> 
> 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
> 

--- dvdread/ifo_read.c.orig	2006-01-22 13:19:19.000000000 +0100
+++ dvdread/ifo_read.c	2009-02-25 18:36:45.000000000 +0100
@@ -1880,6 +1880,7 @@
   
   B2N_16(pgci_ut->nr_of_lus);
   B2N_32(pgci_ut->last_byte);
+  pgci_ut->nr_of_lus %= 100;
   
   CHECK_ZERO(pgci_ut->zero_1);
   CHECK_VALUE(pgci_ut->nr_of_lus != 0);
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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

Reply via email to