[MPlayer-users] Some stupid protection scheme

[Steffen Barszus]

On Wednesday 27 November 2002 14:47, Vittorio Ballestra wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello, I've tried to make a backup copy of my "The Lord of the Rings" DVD
> (italian version)  using mencoder but at movie time 1:36:07 mencoder gives
> a CRC error and it fails to rippit. Trying to play it the movie begins to
> loop around that point.
> I've tried of another DVD that a gave me a friend of mine and I had the
> same result in same exact point.
> Also if I try to watch it on my dear PS2 I encounter the same problem (the
> movie begins to loop over 10 frames before that point).
> After investigating on some PS2 forums I found that this is actually a very
> stupid copy protection schema. This makes me anger and I'm try to
> understand how to play this DVD with mplayer but I was wondering : has
> anyone already solved this problem ?

This seems to be the layer-change, as it is at the middle of the movie, maybe 
the PS2/your DVD-drive have problems with that ?

I did a perfect rip of it w/o probs

Greets

Steffen