Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:19:37 -0600 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ATAPI dvdreader always fails on a particular DVD movie title Message-ID: <200801191619.43588.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <f31d9dda6c3a1cc584600d14f34edbf7@gmail.com> References: <1200679902.4790ebdee1975@webmail.rawbw.com> <47921F6E.8020806@FreeBSD.org> <f31d9dda6c3a1cc584600d14f34edbf7@gmail.com>
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--nextPart2622756.vU4FMI6zeq Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 19 January 2008 12:30:06 pm Joshua Isom wrote: > On Jan 19, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > > Yuri wrote: > >> I tried to make a backup copy of one DVD that I own and 'dvdbackup' > >> always fails at a particular point. > > > > Would the dvds in question happen to be Sony movies? If so a web > > search might be useful to you. > > > > Doug > > Not only that, but do you actually see a DVD logo? Disney movies use > Disney DVD which is incompatible with the DVD specification. > Sony isn't the only maker of DVDs that has goo in them that will confuse=20 libdvdcss. =20 In a nut shell, in many places it's illegal to use 'nonauthorized' tools (l= ike=20 libdvdcss) to decrypt DVDs for any purpose (including playback). On top of= =20 that, the underlying tool used by nearly everything that reads movie DVDs o= n=20 =46reeBSD (libdvdcss) is unmaintained by anyone upstream, as time goes on m= ore=20 and more dvds are released that it either can't decrypt or are able to chok= e=20 it. =2D-=20 Thanks, Josh Paetzel (wearing libdvdcss port maintainer hat) PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB --nextPart2622756.vU4FMI6zeq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHknd/JvkB8SevrssRAoAjAJ4+8mFEfRYgcU/PJnGGTwoEM+V+XwCglD9X ByatHn9VfYzMYisSlLtCtho= =HXoX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2622756.vU4FMI6zeq--
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