[MPlayer-users] Re: how does mplayer circumvent region protected (RPC-2) DVD drives?

[Robert R. Wal]

On 02.10.20 Arpi pressed the following keys:

> i don't really understand your 'unlocks the hidden sectors'... what are the
> 'hidden sectors' ?

On several DVD-s I've found that you cannot read some sectors (usually
at the beginning of the files) until the player does auth stuff with
this DVD (Linux+mplayer and/or Windows+Creative PC-DVD). You just get
errors while copying VOB-s. After playing several seconds of movie
with the player and pressing pause you can copy the VOB-s to disk
without any error. Hence the ``hidden sectors''.

Robert

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