[MPlayer-users] Re: WinDVD releases support for dvd-audio

[Eric Lammerts]

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Christian Lambert wrote:
> WinDVD releases support for dvd-audio

No, they didn't. If you read the article carefully, you'll notice that
it only supports the 24bit/96kHz audio track of DVD _movies_:

: Hardly any of the DVD movies currently available offer 24-bit/96-kHz
: audio streams, and WinDVD Platinum lacks playback support for the
: relatively common DVD-Audio discs that do.

I don't think they will allow any software players this time, because
they make it much easier to hack the new encryption scheme they use
for DVD-Audio.

BTW, when they were about to launch the DVD-Audio format back in 1999,
they planned to use CSS. But just before the launch, CSS was hacked
and so they replaced it with something else. Bad timing of the
DeCSS people... :-)

Eric