[MPlayer-users] Playing a DVD from the Hard Drive

[Luis.F.Correia]

Yeah, right, give them ideas!


-----Original Message-----
From: D Richard Felker III [mailto:dalias at aerifal.cx] 
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 4:22 PM
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Subject: Re: RE: [MPlayer-users] Playing a DVD from the Hard Drive


[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html] On
Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 03:31:00PM -0000, Luis.F.Correia wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read 
> DOCS/bugreports.html] Hum... maybe that's the problem.
> 
> But i have no problem in whatching DVD's with this pc, i'm using a 
> DXR3, so no MPEG decoding occours while playing.

Right. Playing the DVD only reads at about 1meg/sec tops. For ripping you
could easily be going as fast as 15-20 megs/sec. Decrypting 15 megs takes a
lot more time than decrypting 1 meg. :)

BTW why doesn't the MPAA go after DVD drives >1x, since their only purpose
is ripping movies...?

Rich

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