[MPlayer-users] Re: Problems playing DVDs

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:14:37PM +0800, Louis Tsui wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 06:50:42PM +0100, G?bor L?n?rt wrote:
> > 
> > You can also copy a VOB file to your harddisk. To do it, first play that
> > file then exit. Please remember the 'title key' (from mplayer output).
> > Since disc will remain in unlocked state, you can copy the file onto your
> > hdd. Later, you can play the copied file with:
> > 
> > mplayer -dvdkey 0102030405 my.vob
> > 
> > Where 0102030405 is the title key.
> > 
> 
> Is it possible( in theory) to playback encrypted vob file from a
> smb mounted dvd drive shared by another PC without knowing the
> dvdkey?

No. Because SMB won't transfer authentication requests ioctls and others.
Maybe you can try nbd (Network Block Device) in Linux. Or you can try the
following (but you should run Linux on the other computer too!):

Run mplayer -dvdauth /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd/video_ts/vts_01_1.vob or similar
on the SERVER. Memorize the title key.

Go to the client computer, mount the video_ts directory through eg NFS.
Then issue the following command here:

mplayer -dvdkey 0102030405 /mnt/nfs/vts_01_1.vob

where 0102030405 is the DVD key.


- Gabor