[plug] DVD "encrypted"

[Gavin Chester]

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 09:50 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 00:48 +0800, Kev wrote:
> > Richard Meyer wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I need a bit of advice. I am running OpenSUSE 10.1, and have SMART
> > > installed to do all the hard work for me.
> > > 
> > > I have got Xine working with "libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1" and it works perfectly
> > > for every DVD I've tried - EXCEPT for "The meaning of Life" - it tells
> > > me that is encrypted.

I just realised that my lengthy previous reply applied to burning, but
the same outcome I described applies to playing, which is more
appropriate to your original post, Richard :-)  In the playing stakes,
I've tried kaffeine (which is a xine frontend, anyway) xine, mplayer
(both with and without gui) and vlc.  I find the last is the most
'flexible' and solid with handling different quality of media and
encryption, but even that spits the dummy on certain discs.  I find
disney and bbc discs the most harsh on my system. 

> > > 
> > > Any ideas what is going on? Is there a different encryption algorithm on
> > > different DVDs?
> > > 
> > > Any help gratefully acknowledged.
> > 
> > I don't know what's going on with your program, but I'm sure that if you 
> > install dvdauthor and k9copy It'll read, play, rip and write any 
> > encrypted DVD you have.  (Well at least it does for me.)
> 
> No, not in my experience :-( I have the same system as Richard
> (including smart) and have anything and everything installed that is to
> do with dvd and encryption.  
> 
> I mostly use k9copy, with rare fallback to dvd:rip (still trying to work
> out all the options on that one!), Xdvdshrink, and vobcopy. I find that
> 95% of discs are no problem, but about 5% just refuse to be "backed-up".
> I don't see the log message that Richard reports - my system just balks
> on certain discs and either segfaults the app. or hangs while spending
> forever and forever trying to read it with no head way made.
> 
> This answer overlaps into previous threads where I asked: 1/ how to kill
> a process that refused to die; 2/ what was the best dvd ripping app. to
> be considering; and, 3/ how to upgrade dvd firmware in linux.  In the
> case of 1/ it sadly turns out that when the hardware is tied up and
> waiting on signals from an app, then you can't kill that process by any
> means other than rebooting (that answer gleaned by googling and help
> from this list).  In the case of 2/ I settled for k9copy, like Richard.
> Finally, in the case of 3/ there seems no easy/possible way for every
> type of drive to be flashed in linux :-(  
> 
> Gavin.  
> 
> 
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