[plug] Linux and DVD Audio/AC3

Mike Holland myk.list at westnet.com.au
Thu Aug 18 15:48:49 WST 2005


Bad news.
I wrongly assumed that DVD-audio used CSS.
It actually uses a thing called CPPM, and cannot be played on Linux.

There are now windoze players. See "DVD-Audio's CPPM Circumvented":
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/06/1740206

I was playing with the AC3 audio from HD-TV, which mercifully is not 
encrypted. yet.




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