[MPlayer-users] Dealing with Copy Protection

[Alexander Roalter]

EC wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the same copy protection (20th century Fox?), but I was having similar problems with one of the episodes (just 1) on disk 2 (season 1) of 24.  It was a few months ago and I don't recall the exact error, but I got kernel messages about vob cell problems and it froze up my cdrom and mplayer processes for a few minutes.  None of the episodes on this disk could be read with mencoder, but -dumpstream worked fine on all but the problem title.
> 
> I finally got it copied over by using wine+dvd decryptor (good windows dvd ripper), but it took long enough to get all that figured out.
> 
> It was from netflix, but if you are actually interested in a more in-depth look, I could rent it again.
> 
> //Eli
I don't know if Fox uses copy protection (since I came at it only with 
Sony/Columbia Discs and two or three smaller german companies), but I 
got problems earlier with my starship troopers DVD and Mulholland Drive, 
where a replacement with a new disc solved the problem, and I think this 
problem was caused by badly produced DVDs. But since I noticed a 
complete different Cell structure on the copy protected Discs, a badly 
produced DVD is highly unlikely.

cheers,
Alex