[MPlayer-users] structure protection

[n0dalus]

On 11/6/05, ilab <ilab at freemail.hu> wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> does someone know the solution for ripping a dvd protected by
> 'structure protection' on linux?
>
> I tried to copy the dvd content to HDD by dvd::rip, vobcopy and tccat
> but they were all blocked at the first problematic IO operation and
> they could not been even killed. I managed to copy the stuff to HDD
> with mplayer -dumpstream, and mplayer can play the result from HD
> without problems (no A/V desync), but when I try to encode it with
> mencoder, it skips frames all the time and the result is A/V desync.
> If I use -mc 0 to prevent syncing I got another kind of desync (well,
> not surprising).
>
> What I havent tried is to use mencoder directly from the dvd device,
> but I prefer to copy to HDD before, for many reasons, and I dont
> really think it would help, anyway. As mplayer can play the stuff
> from HDD without problem, I think the issue is with mencoder.
>
> So, is there a solution?
>
> Thanx,
> ilab
>

I know some people might not consider it a great 'solution', but DVD
Decrypter works very nicely under linux using wine. This should be
able to get around tricky dvd protections.

n0dalus.