[MPlayer-advusers] new copy protection: can't even play the original dvd

[Compn]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:11:59 +0200, lynx.abraxas at freenet.de scribed:

>On 05/08/07 19:13:32, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>> 
>> Try mplayer dvdnav://4 (assuming you have dvdnav support compiled
>> in).
>> 
>> Does any other software player play it? Does any hardware player
>> play it?
>
>Tested  with  xine  now. No luck. It doesn't play anything of the DVD
>not even the titels that mplayer can show. I don't have a hardware
>player  but  I  was told  most  of  them  don't have problems with it.
>It seems only closed source software player can play these DVDs. They
>seem to have some way to correct the broken  file structur or to
>ignore it. I don't understand though why there are hardware players
>that can cope with them.

the hardware players follow the ifo files for titles/tracks 
the software players mostly follow the .vob files on the disc...

dvd:// does the latter, dvdnav:// does the former ?
at least i think

you tried mplayer dvd://1-20 and dvdnav://1-20? (yes '1-20'. dont do
dvd://1 dvd://2 do dvd://1-20...) 

-compn