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

[Jonas Jermann]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:30:08PM +0200, Tobias Diedrich wrote:
> Robert R. Wal wrote:
> 
> > You're wrong. mplayer does circumvent this protection. Some time ago
> > Arpi was so kind that he explained what actually happens in mpdvdkit
> > that it can read disks from other regions in RPC2 drives.
> 
> Interesting. I did not know that it is possible to circumvent the region
> protection in that way... Well, my drive is patched, so I can't test if
> it works or not :-)

The docs/etc say it works but I tested it on the colleague's RPC2 drive
and it failed (tried all methods, debug msgs activated)!

Could some other ppl please test this?
I'm confused about the dvd authentication (I started to write the 
docs but my questions haven't been answered yet). Unfortunately 
I have almost no time to write them now. For further 
informations please check my previous mail (on this thread) it 
includes VCD/DVD structure doc updates too...

Set DVDCSS_METHOD=title DVDCSS_DEBUG=2...


Regards
    Jonas