posts/media rantbloghttp://blog.spang.cc/posts/media_rant/blogikiwiki2009-07-30T15:49:45Zcomment 1http://blog.spang.cc/posts/media_rant/comment_1/Anonymous2009-07-30T15:49:45Z2007-12-02T18:24:46Z
<p>What did the fine print say?</p>
<p>And have you reported this as a bug on the media players in question?</p>
comment 2http://blog.spang.cc/posts/media_rant/comment_2/Olaf van der Spek2009-07-30T15:49:45Z2007-12-03T04:25:42Z
Given that the players crash, there's obviously a bug (or more) in the players. Why are you blaming the media?
comment 3http://blog.spang.cc/posts/media_rant/comment_3/Brad2009-07-30T15:49:45Z2007-12-03T10:30:38Z
<p>The bug in the players is that they assume the content conforms to the DVD spec. The ARccOS 'protection system' plays the usual games with zero length tracks and other bogus header data. (Yes, the players should be sanity checking the input rather than crashing.)</p>
<p>For ARccOS protected DVDs (ie. Sony/Columbia) this should work to rip the file. Drop the '--sout' argument to simply view the movie.</p>
<p>% vlc dvd:/dev/dvd@1 --sout "#standard{access=file,mux=ps,dst=./foo.ps}"</p>
comment 4http://blog.spang.cc/posts/media_rant/comment_4/TK2009-07-30T15:49:45Z2007-12-03T13:45:46Z
Also you should check that libdvdcss2 is version 1.2.9 or higher.
comment 5http://blog.spang.cc/posts/media_rant/comment_5/blix2009-07-30T15:49:45Z2007-12-03T16:30:05Z
I might call them "Damn Warner Bros".
comment 6http://blog.spang.cc/posts/media_rant/comment_6/Christine2009-07-30T15:49:45Z2007-12-04T00:17:32Z
<p>Yeah, I checked and I have libdvdcss2 1.2.9. I guess I'll see about trying that vlc trick -- I didn't try it in vlc because the machine I was trying to play it on runs lenny and vlc isn't currently in lenny.</p>
<p>Anyhow, thanks for the tips.</p>