[MPlayer-users] Circuit City DivX

[jeff]

im pretty sure theres some webpages/groups/whatever dedicated to hacking the cds. might want to check there

On 02 Jul 2002 01:38:28 -0400
Bradley Alexander <storm at tux.org> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I have a friend who bought a good number of Circuit City DivX DVDs. The
> way the DivX worked, you could watch them for three days once activated.
> He had a bunch that he did not get to watch before the company went
> under and the 800 activation number went away.
> 
> I was trying to read the vobs, which are not in /video_ts are in a
> directory called /zoom, along with a number of jar files. Any attempts
> to manipulate the files leads to an Input/output error.
> 
> [root at ganges debian]# cp /cdrom/zoom/*vob .
> cp: reading `/cdrom/zoom/bvts00_1.vob': Input/output error
> cp: reading `/cdrom/zoom/bvts00_2.vob': Input/output error
> cp: reading `/cdrom/zoom/bvts00_3.vob': Input/output error
> cp: reading `/cdrom/zoom/bvts00_4.vob': Input/output error
> cp: reading `/cdrom/zoom/bvts00_5.vob': Input/output error
> 
> I also tried using player and mencoder, and got the same I/O error.
> 
> Does anyone know of a way to access these vobs?
> 
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