[MPlayer-users] copy protection

[Damion de Soto]

D Richard Felker III wrote:

> Actually, there is a rather nasty copy protection scheme used in many
> DVDs... I'm halfway being sarcastic about this, but somewhat serious:
> Nasty broken telecine. Discs which mix hard and soft telecine at
> random, or use very weird telecine patterns which are difficult to
> detect. 

I see heaps of problems relating to telecine, and see various warnings etc on some of 
my DVDs that use it.
Can someone explain exactly what hard/soft telecine is and why mplayer plays it fine, 
but you can't rip/encode it. (or have i got that wrong too?)
Or point me to a website, i've googled a bit, but the most detailed description I 
found was 'telecine - converting film to video'

thanks

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