Hello there. First time I post to this list. I am having problems decrypting DVDs. It may be a hardware bug, but I actually suspect more of a software bug. Allow me to describe the symptoms.
About two months ago, I could happily play any DVD that I put into my drive, using Marillat's libdvdcss2 package. Also around that time, I may have bumped my laptop's DVD drive or something to that effect, since I started to notice skipping during DVD playback, although DVDs would still play. Also during one full-upgrade on that occasion (I track lenny, with an occasional non-critical sid package here and there), I rebooted the lappy, and now DVDs won't play, although they did just before the reboot. So I'm not sure if the full-upgrade or if physical damage to my DVD drive is the problem. I tested hardware errors by using dd to copy the entirety of one uncrackable DVD. I got no I/O errors when doing so, but maybe I should test that again. I just remembered that I also fooled around with regionset, which said that my DVD player probably had no region, but I told it to attempt to set a region anyways, but it replied that it couldn't do so. Here is what looks like relevant error messages: ******************************************** libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x000002a0 libdvdcss debug: cracking title key at block 672 libdvdcss error: read error libdvdcss debug: read error at block 672, resorting to secret arcanes to recover libdvdcss debug: opening target `/dev/hda' libdvdcss debug: using libc for access libdvdcss error: read error libdvdcss debug: end of title reached libdvdcss debug: successful attempts 0/0, scrambled blocks 0/0 libdvdcss debug: title key is 00:00:00:00:00 libdvdcss error: fatal error in vts css key ********************************************* I thought that "read error" could be a hardware problem, but like I said above, I couldn't get any read errors when dding the beginning of the disk. I wasn't patient enough to wait for dd to copy all the end to the disk, but I assume that the encryption information is at the beginning of the disk. Furthermore, unencrypted pirated DVDs play fine, and they're thankfully very readily available here in Mexico. I may just resort to only buying pirated DVDs since the MPAA's DRM is making me it impossible for me to watch their movies. :-) It would still be nice to be able to crack my own DVDs instead of getting help from the professional pirates. Help? Thanks in advance, - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
