[MPlayer-users] Won't play two DVDs in the Apu series

[Rashkae]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 12:32:23PM +0200, markus reichelt wrote:
> * Rashkae <rashkae at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
> 
> > Several Sony DVD's are protected with Sony's Arccoss copy
> > protection (deliberately inserted bad sectors.).  Mplayer cannot
> > play these.  (Although, some people have had some success with the
> > dvdnav plugin).  Use either Xine or VLC to watch the dvd.  VLC can
> > even rip it for you, so you can make your own standard compliant
> > DVD to watch :)
> 
> here's a list of DVDs to avoid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARccOS

thanks for that, great resource.

Hmm, but it seems to not apply to the discs that spawned this thread, so, I appologize for the wild goose chase.