I just tried it. I inserted a DVD into the drive, went to explorer, dragged d:\video_ts\vts_01_0.vob to c:\temp, and it copied fine as far as I can tell.
I have read how a key retlating to the CSS is on the DVD and it is up to the drive to read this key from a special place on the disk. That is the only special function of the DVD drive that I know of. and I dont even know how that really works.:)
Lets say you have a DVD Drive in your system and a DVD. You can copy the.VOB files from the DVD to the hard drive and now you have unencrypted VOB files.
The funny part is that only the commercial software DVD decoders (WinDVD, etc) can play VOB files. This software already has DeCSS code in it!
It seems to me that any video piraters could just distribute the encrypted VOB files along with pirated playback software. This makes DeCSS pretty useless untill freeware VOB players emerge. Or a VOB --> Quicktime converter?
... everyone is downloading the newly released demo for Ulitma IX: Ascention. cdrom.com is the only "big" server that has it at the moment. (ftp.cdrom.com/pub/3dfiles/games/u9 - over 400MB)
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I just tried it. I inserted a DVD into the drive, went to explorer, dragged d:\video_ts\vts_01_0.vob to c:\temp, and it copied fine as far as I can tell.
:)
I have read how a key retlating to the CSS is on the DVD and it is up to the drive to read this key from a special place on the disk. That is the only special function of the DVD drive that I know of. and I dont even know how that really works.
Don
Lets say you have a DVD Drive in your system and a DVD. You can copy the .VOB files from the DVD to the hard drive and now you have unencrypted VOB files.
The funny part is that only the commercial software DVD decoders (WinDVD, etc) can play VOB files. This software already has DeCSS code in it!
It seems to me that any video piraters could just distribute the encrypted VOB files along with pirated playback software. This makes DeCSS pretty useless untill freeware VOB players emerge. Or a VOB --> Quicktime converter?
Don
... everyone is downloading the newly released demo for Ulitma IX: Ascention. cdrom.com is the only "big" server that has it at the moment.
(ftp.cdrom.com/pub/3dfiles/games/u9 - over 400MB)