On 3 Dec 2006, at 13:28, Mick wrote:
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I thought that K3B and a double layer blank DVD+R is all I need to
burn an iso
image of the DVD. After two expensive coasters (see other recent
topic) I
came to the conclusion that the combination of
K3B/Phillips-DVD8421/Imation-DVD+R DL will just not work....
I've never used K3B myself, but its site is not clear whether it
handles the DeCSS part of the DVD rip.
CSS is the system used to region-restrict DVDs, and AFAICT it works
by encrypting the files on the disk against a key stored in a special
part of the DVD's header. This "header" part of the DVD is not
writable by normal DVD-burners (I have heard that "authoring" DVD-
burners which support it cost several thousand pounds), so a
"bitwise" copy of a DVD cannot be decrypted (because the key is
missing).
As I understand it, in order to copy DVD movies one must first make a
copy of the DVD's files - with the region-encoding removed - onto
hard-disk, then burn this as a new DVD "compilation". The result is
an R0 disk which should play fine in any standard player.
Stroller.
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