ATAPI dvdreader always fails on a particular DVD movie title

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:19:37 -0600, Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org> wrote:

> 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
> libdvdcss.
>
> In a nut shell, in many places it's illegal to use 'nonauthorized' tools  
> (like
> libdvdcss) to decrypt DVDs for any purpose (including playback).  On top  
> of
> that, the underlying tool used by nearly everything that reads movie  
> DVDs on
> FreeBSD (libdvdcss) is unmaintained by anyone upstream, as time goes on  
> more
> and more dvds are released that it either can't decrypt or are able to  
> choke
> it.

It's why I am still keeping WinXP in USB flash drive (2gb) for I can use  
AnyDVD and other nice tools for rip DVD movie. Rip DVD movie in  
Linux/FreeBSD suck and don't work for me.

Cheers,
Mezz


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