On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:35:54 +0100 Alexander Roalter <alex at roalter.it> wrote: > * some of the recent Sony DVDs don't use ARccOS at all, so back to dvd:// > * Warner (at least in Germany, but Warner's New Line also in the US) > uses, together with some crappy DVD publishers in Germany, Protect-X, > which uses a corrupted UDF file system, which only a patch to dvdread > was able to amend, The Dark Knight for example also needs dvdnav:// > * newest of all, Paramount uses a hitherto unknown protection, also with > modified UDF and erroneous flagged 'damaged' sectors, which current dvd > can't play, but dvdnav plays so-so (I have already a thread up for that) > > So, currently dvdnav is no complete replacement for dvd at the moment, > and vice versa. Regarding copy protection, at least for me, I always use the excelent DVDFab Free running through Wine. Then I can use mplayer without worrying about copy protection. -- Linux 2.6.31: Man-Eating Seals of Antiquity
