[mythtv-users] Importing Sony 'Arccos' protected dvds

[Marco Nelissen]

>On 10/24/06, Dom H <speedsix.lists at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks. I read somewhere that regular players know where these bad sectors
>> are and can skip them, how does it know this and can mtd use this method?
>>
>> Also, how come I can play the disc fine yet cannot rip it?
>>
>
>Regular players don't know where they are, but when they encounter an error
>they simply skip to the next sector and keep playing.  This is, of course,
>to keep up the flow of the movie, because a slight error on the screen is
>better than a pause in the playback.

I think the way it actually works is that the bad sectors are "in between"
the sectors that are played. In other words, the disc is layed out such
that during normal playback you'll never encounter the bad sectors, you'll
only get them when you try to make a 1:1 ISO copy of the disc.