[MPlayer-users] copy protection

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:35:20AM -0700, Corey Hickey wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Bokor Norbert wrote:
> >[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >Hi!
> >
> >My question is: can mencoder grab copy-protected DVD tracks?
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean here. Do some DVDs have copy protection
> beyond the usual encryption? In any case, I've never seen a DVD that
> mplayer couldn't play, and mencoder can encode from any source mplayer
> can handle.

Actually, there is a rather nasty copy protection scheme used in many
DVDs... I'm halfway being sarcastic about this, but somewhat serious:
Nasty broken telecine. Discs which mix hard and soft telecine at
random, or use very weird telecine patterns which are difficult to
detect. Whether this is intended as a copy protection mechanism is a
question i leave to the conspiracy theorists, but in practice, it
makes it hard as hell to rip a working copy of certain DVDs... See
samurix_detc.avi for a horrible example.

Rich