[mythtv-users] Many new dvd's not working

Tom Dexter digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
Sat Nov 20 16:48:40 UTC 2010


On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Eloy Paris <peloy at chapus.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 01:24:31PM +0000, Dom H wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> I can understand why the devs may not focus too much of their efforts
>> on dvd ripping, saying that, the best way to 'rip' a dvd is exactly
>> the same as playing it, i.e using the "standards" (which shouldn't
>> ever change) to skirt around the nastiness.
>
> Couldn't agree more -- I have a 10-year old Panasonic DVD player
> that has not had a problem playing any DVD I've thrown at it. This
> is testament to the fact that if standards are followed then things
> will work forever regardless of how many new DRM and copy protection
> mechanisms are put into new DVDs. Otherwise old DVD players that follow
> standards would have problems playing new DVDs, which would create a
> nightmare for DVD vendors (they'd have to put some special warning on
> the DVD, deal with returns, possibly deal with lawsuits, etc.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eloy Paris.-
>

Wow...I have to whole-heartedly disagree.  I'd argue that what you
describe has nothing what so ever to do with standards. The fact is
that most (but not all) dvd players will ignore corrupted sectors and
the like which is obviously *not* the case (by design) when a computer
tries to read a drive of any sort.  This is just the dumb luck that
the DVD player manufacturers decided to just deal with such situations
as best they can.  I can assure you there's nothing in the DVD
standard that says you can corrupt sectors at will, and that the
player needs to allow for that.  As a matter of fact there have been
Sony DVD players that barf on their own copy protection.

Quite the contrary, many argue that things like Sony ARccOS actually
violate the DVD standard and warrant a class action suit...and I
totally agree.

Tom


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