On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 20:56:45 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > You're right. I read this information some years ago in a normally > > reliable source, and saw no reason to doubt it as it made sense. bit > > I've just tried a dd copy and it worked. It failed on the first > > attempt, but after running lsdvd, it worked for the whole disc, and > > mplayer played it.
"It" here refers to the attempt to copy the disc with dd. The copy failed after around 100MB the first time, but succeeded after lsdvd. > What is happenning here is that lsdvd is cracking the css keys via > libdvdcss and caching the keys in ~/.dvdcss. If you move the image to > another computer, or try to read it as another user, the keys will > neeed to be cracked again. I've tried playing the ISO image as root and it still worked. -- Neil Bothwick I wonder how much deeper would the ocean be without sponges.
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