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.


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Neil Bothwick

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