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Nvidia Drivers Enforce Macrovision's Rules
Ant writes "According to 'Nvidia Macrovision DVD-TV rules forced on consumers', Nvidia drivers 41.09 and onwards include 'stringent checks' to comply with Macrovision requirements. That could mean if you have a TV encoder that does not support Macrovision, you may well get an error message depending on what DVD software player you are using, the company has said."
...for ATI.
... binary drivers!
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Stupid drivers wouldn't let me play any dvds, even when the tv out was disabled. Had to patch the dvd player to ignore the macrovision flag. Yay for IDA.
Nvidia Macrovision DVD-TV rules forced on consumers
Cuts out other TV encoders
By INQUIRER staff: Thursday 20 March 2003, 10:19
In other news, Reagan beats Carter, Soviets back down over Cuban missle issue, and WR Hearst says the USS Maine was sunk my a Spanish mine.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
Because macrovision is so important on a computer; I know that there are hunders of pirates out there with videos plugged in to the macrovision disabled TV out on their pc's just recording high quality DVD's onto vhs, watching and intently pausing and skipping adverts and messages.
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Naturally none of these guys ever just decrypts the data on the dvd, strips out just the movie and audio track and re-encodes in onto a vcd or dvd4 with an automagic program, no, as this is clearly much more difficult;
Face it, Macrovision is done, obsolete; It is no longer an impediment, or even reasonable barrier to copy protection; its only remaining function is to prevent FAIR USE.
As with my CD's, I rip all of my DVDs into divx files which I store on the hard drive of my HTPC so I can choose the video/audio I want from the comfort of the sofa; this is perfectly legal in Australia, we call it "media shifting"; for those of you in the US, I believe this is called "Piracy". You see, we still have to comit a crime before we get punished for it down here
Once upon a time, there was a Land of the Free, called the United States of America, where such freedoms were protected by law; but then an evil fairy by the name of Bono came along and stole all of those freedoms in the name of keeping a mouse eared tool of Nazi Propaganda in the hands of a large corporation (lets not think about why you would want to continue to own such a thing)long after the death of its misguided creator; now those who love freedom must run to hallowed sanctuaries like Australia or New Zealand, where we are still free... thought the dark evil stain of North American Copyright Law has leapt the big pond and now begins to tarnish our beautiful Australia; man, New Zealand is going to be crowded soon
wow, where did that soapbox come from???
sorry guys
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jak