[MPlayer-advusers] new copy protection: can't even play the original dvd

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 05 August 2007 at 00:18, lynx.abraxas at freenet.de wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> 
> I  just  tried  to  play an original dvd of "Wer früher stirbt ist länger tod"
> wich seems to have some new copy protection. It is sometimes called DVD-Movie-
> PROTECT from X-Protect. http://www.heise.de/ct/Redaktion/ghi/retch/ed/dvd.html
> (sorry, I just found it in German)
> Is there anyway I can get this to play? The main movie is  in  4  but  mplayer
> says:
> 
> mplayer dvd://4
> MPlayer dev-SVN-r23662-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 7)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
> 
> Playing dvd://4.
> There are 26 titles on this DVD.
> There are 16 chapters in this DVD title.
> There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
> libdvdread: Invalid title IFO (VTS_03_0.IFO).
> Cannot open the IFO file for DVD title 3.
> No stream found to handle url dvd://4
> 
> 
> Exiting... (End of file)
> 
> I have already updated libdvdcss and libdvdread. Anything else I could try?

Try mplayer dvdnav://4 (assuming you have dvdnav support compiled in).

Does any other software player play it? Does any hardware player play it?

Regards,
R.

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