Playing DVD drive

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 19 May 2006, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> On Monday 15 May 2006 11:30, David Bandel wrote:
> > >
> > >  That won't work unless the DVD is not encrypted. ;)
> >
> > That's what libdvdcss2 is for, unscrambling "encrypted" (they're not
> > encrypted) DVDs.  CSS is content scrambling system.  Any zone can be
> > unscrambled.  If it were really encrypted, you'd need a key of some
> <well-founded rant snipped>
>
> I've found both ways true.  Sometimes dd works great.  Others it seems to
> barf.  What I've started doing is to open the DVD in xine or mplayer, watch a
> few seconds of the movie, close it, and then do my ripping...  I believe I
> found that suggestion on this list a long time ago.  I've seldom had issues
> since.

I think that came from me, as its my patented method  ;)


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