PB titanium + encrypted DVDs + Jaguar

Charles Ravussin meisterk at mac.com
Sat Sep 21 00:55:06 CEST 2002


sorry for the typo, I meant:

  ./vlc dvd:/dev/rdisk1 --dvd-cssmethod=title


Le Vendredi, 20 sep 2002, à 15:50 US/Pacific, Charles Ravussin a écrit :

> I have a Titanium PB running Jaguar. My DVD drive, a matshita CW8121, 
> is RPC2.
>
> It seems that there won't be a patched firmware for this drive anytime 
> soon , so I figured VLC would allow me to read Region 1 DVDs as my 
> drive is locked to region 2.
>
> I scanned the mailing list archives and found that in order to 
> successfully read encrypted DVDs on VLC, one must
>
> 1) give write access to the dvd device. So I did:
>
> "sudo chmod 666 /dev/rdisk1"  from the console
>
> 2) use the "title" css method if your drive is RPC2. I launch VLC like 
> this:
>
> " ./vlc dvd:/dev/rdisk1 --dvd-cssmethod=key"
>
>
> Then vlc opens, and nothing seems to happen. Doing a "tail -f 
> /var/log/system.log" gives me this:
>
> Sep 20 15:40:58 CR-Mobile-Studio mach_kernel: SAM Multimedia: READ or 
> WRITE failed, ASC = 0x6f, ASCQ = 0x04
> Sep 20 15:40:58 CR-Mobile-Studio last message repeated 4 times
> Sep 20 15:40:58 CR-Mobile-Studio mach_kernel: disk1: I/O error.
>
> the message loops forever unless i quit vlc
>
> and here is the libdvdcss output:
>
> ibdvdcss debug: requesting AGID
> libdvdcss debug: drive authentic, using variant 0
> libdvdcss debug: authentication established
> libdvdcss debug: GetASF authenticated (ASF=1)
> libdvdcss debug: disc key won't be decrypted
> libdvdcss debug: the key is 00 00 00 00 00
> libdvdcss debug: read returned 0 (end of device?)
> libdvdcss debug: 0 of 0 attempts successful, 0 of 1 blocks scrambled
> libdvdcss debug: file was unscrambled
> libdvdcss debug: the key is 00 00 00 00 00
> libdvdcss debug: unencrypted title
> libdvdcss debug: requesting AGID
> libdvdcss debug: ioctl_ReportAgid failed
> libdvdcss debug: invalidating AGID 0
>
>
> I am using VLC 0.4.4, supposedly using the latest libdvdcss..
>
> It seems this is a darwin issue, anybody got an idea of what's going 
> on?
>
>
> Thanks
>
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