don't give up yet

[Steven Rodenburg]

Sam,

Thanks for the DeCSS package. tstdvd says this about my (in this example)
TopGun DVD:


[root at adagio /mnt]# tstdvd /dev/sr0
Authenticated
Request AGID [1]... AGID 0
Host sending challenge:  09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00
LU sent key1:  FD 14 D4 74 2A
Drive Authentic - using varient 0
LU sent challenge:  D8 F3 07 A9 70 F0 B4 83 FA BF
Host sending key 2:  35 FE DA 72 84
DVD is authenticated
Received Session Key: F2 4A 3F E6 DD
Authenticated
Received Disc Key: 8C 39 E8 A2 6A A1 D6 8C AC FD
Authenticated


So that looks good (or not, depend on how you look at it...).
However, i run the 2.2.16 kernel and it has no UDF support so i guess i'm
stuck for now.
I tried to use pre 2.4 kernels before but they require to much changes to my
system (it's the only one i've got next to a Sun Sparc box but it's sort of
old and has no DVD) to mock around with it.
When i get my hands on a second box i can use to experiment on and shove in a
DVD player and try vlc there.
But for now. No UDF = no dvd fun  @-(




Samuel Hocevar wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 19, 2000, Steven Rodenburg wrote:
>
> > Ok, got vlc running now without the startup errors i mailed in before.
> > But now vlc just freezes without any messages when i run vlc (or gvlc,
> > doesn't matter).
>
>    This is still a bit strange. Did you by chance try with a stream that
> you were sure wasn't encrypted ?
>
>    We have some here : ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/streams/
>
> > This leads me to assume that all my DVD's are encrypted
>
>    It's highly possible. A huge majority of DVDs are encrypted.
>
> > Why the hell is there not a company that will make a good full-featured
> > Linux-DVD player like PowerDVD or WinDVD on Windows. I don't mind paying
> > for one.
>
>    I mind paying for one. VideoLAN is OpenSource, it's the most
> important for me, and it probably wouldn't be of any interest if it
> wasn't. I prefer something far from perfect like VideoLAN that I can
> still hack on, rather than a closed-source application I won't be able
> to modify. Note that I do not speak on behalf of other members of the
> project, but I do believe most of them agree with me.
>
> > I really do admire the guys and dolls working on Linux DVD players and
> > stuff but until now i found not a single player that will just install
> > and run. Just run and decode and show the damn movies aaaaarrrggh.
> > Damn it. Linux always lags behind these sort of things (and i've been
> > around for quite a while mind you).
>
>    Try this version of DeCSS : http://zoy.org/~sam/css-auth.tar.gz
>
>    I compiled it, so you just have to run it this way (supposing
> /dev/hdc is your DVD drive) - you'll probably have to be root:
>
>      ./tstdvd /dev/hdc
>      mount /dev/hdc /mnt/dvd -t udf
>      ./tstdvd /dev/hdc /mnt/dvd/VIDEO_TS_VTS_01_0.VOB
>      ./css-cat -a /mnt/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_[1-9].VOB | vlc -
>
>    You will need UDF (filesystem) support in your kernel, and a rather
> recent version of it (the 2.4.0pre series aren't bad).
>
> > And now that 2600.com lost their lawsuit and they removed all links to
> > DeCSS the Linux community is really screwed. Search engines don't reveal
> > working links to linux-DeCSS packages either.
>
>    I don't give a fuck to the current issue of this lawsuit. Kaplan had
> been a consultant for the MPAA, so he wasn't probably the best person to
> rule against them. Anyone interested in working links to DeCSS may try:
>
>    http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/decss/mirrors.html
>
> Regards,
> Sam.
> --
> Samuel Hocevar <sam at via.ecp.fr> - http://www.via.ecp.fr/~sam/
>      Do not try and fight the Cabal. That's impossible.
>   Instead only try to realize the truth. There is no Cabal.