[DVDnav-discuss] patched libdvdread in dvdnav

[Alexander Roalter]

Nico Sabbi wrote:
> On Sunday 25 May 2008 18:15:48 Alexander Roalter wrote:
>> Nico Sabbi wrote:
>>> Alexander Roalter wrote:
>>>> On the page I mentioned before I found another patch, claiming
>>>> to be 'nicer', which works in slightly different way. I didn't
>>>> test it on the problem DVDs yet (but will tonight), but at least
>>>> normal DVD play is still possible. I've created a suitable patch
>>>> for libdvdnav's dvdread (as before). This is merely looking into
>>>> which one works better, no final solution yet (unfortunately).
>>> did you test this second patch on your broken dvds?
>>> Does it work well as much as the first version?
>> Indeed, it does. It works with all normal DVDs, then with the Sony
>> ARccOS protected (which unfortunately requires dvdnav instead of
>> dvd), and also with the one DVD my brother owns which implements
>> Protect-X copy protection and also one DVD i got from the rental
>> store
> 
> good. It's much cleaner and smaller.
> So basically there are simply references to locations beyond the
> size of the title? Are they so stupid?

It appears so. It seems, all these 'producers' of these copy protection 
mechanisms have to do is dream up some nonsense which is easily 
circumvented and sell it for a pile of money to the Studios... The same 
studios who think applying these copy protection will help sell them one 
unit more...

Something beside: the current version (r1041) still has the problems 
with a) the language not being recognized anymore and b) the aspect 
ratio not being recognized. I reverted back to r997 for everyday use, 
you mentioned something along the lines of some changes in the 
structures needed in either mplayer or dvdnav.


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cheers,
Alex