[MPlayer-users] DVD RPC (fwd)

[DEBERT Jean-Louis]

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Arpi [mailto:arpi at thot.banki.hu]
>  Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 12:38 PM
>  To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
>  Subject: Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: [MPlayer-users] DVD RPC (fwd)
>  
>  
>  [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read 
>  DOCS/bugreports.html]
>  Hi,
>  
>  > >  a myth that the drive itself take care of it. 
>  > 
>  > No it is not. It simply means that there are _two_ checks, one 
>  > in the software player (which dvd-genie, or libdvdcss, 
>  take care of)
>  > and one in the _drive firmware_, which _cannot_ be 
>  bypassed if it is
>  > present in the drive's firmware (the firmware itself does the check
>  > when the software requests "read title key", and will 
>  return an error
>  > if the region codes on the drive and on the DVD media do 
>  not match).
>  
>  yes, this is the trick. libdvdcss does NOT requests the 
>  title key from the
>  drive!!! it crack it without the help of the drive itself!
>  so this check never runs, even fi exists in the drive.
>  my fairly new sony dvd rom has this check in the firmware, 
>  windows needed to
>  set the right region code to work. but libdvdcss didn't!
>  
>  
>  A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
>  
>  --
>  Developer of MPlayer, the Movie Player for Linux - 
>  http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu
>  
>  _______________________________________________
>  RTFM!!!  http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/DOCS
>  Search:  http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch
>  http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
>