Newbie Question: Problems on Mac OS X

[Andreas Gschwendtner]

Sorry, I still don't understand it: When I rip a DVD using DVDExtractor 
(or similar tools like "Smartripper" for Windows PCs) CSS should be 
removed, schouldn't it?
Another thing: When I rip a DVD chapter by chapter I can play _some_ 
VOBs (chapters) but not all of them. But on the source DVD everything is 
CSS scrambled, isn't it? So playback should either work for all files 
ripped of the _same_ DVD or for none of them. It doesnt make much sense 
to me that - for example - chapter 1, 4, 7, and 9 on a DVD should be CSS 
encrypted, while the other chapters are unencrypted. Any suggestions?

Thanks, Andreas G

On Dienstag, Dezember 11, 2001, at 02:14  Uhr, Christophe Massiot wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2001, Andreas Gschwendtner wrote:
>
>> I just downloaded the precompiled binarys of vlc for Mac OS X to play 
>> my
>> .VOB-Files. For some of the files it works great, but for some others 
>> the
>> app keeps crashing every time I try to invoke it. It really depends on 
>> the
>> file I play, as the crashing always happens with the same files. Up to 
>> now I
>> could not find a system tzo predict wich files vlc will play and wich 
>> not:
>> It does _not_ depend on file size for example. I tried ripping my DVDs 
>> with
>> DVD-Extractor 0.9b under Mac OS 9.2 as well as using many other ripping
>> utilities on my Windows-PC. When I rip a DVD to 10 .VOB-Files for 
>> Example
>> (e. g. a chapterwise rip), vlc will play _some_ of the ripped files 
>> but not
>> all of them. What am I doing wrong??
>
> You can only read .vob files if they are not CSS-scrambled. That's why
> it works with some files, and not with others. We have a special DVD
> input which does descrambling, and Florian is working on adapting it.
>
> --
> Christophe Massiot.
>
>
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