DVD playback and new drivers
Pepys
blah blah
WTF is nVidia up to with their latest drivers?
There is apparently some sort of Macrovision detection function built in to
the latest geforce drivers which disallows any DVD with copyright to be
played through a computer.
Fuck, fuck and double fuck.
The only way I watch DVDs is through the computer on a flash new 19" TFT
screen, and now that has been denied me by some wanker deciding to
arbitrarily stop the watching of DVDs on computers.
If they think this is going to stop piracy - think again.
The only advice I have received so far to overcome this annoying problem, is
to rip the DVD to my hard drive, hack out the macrovision element of the
show and take it from there.
If anyone knows of a fix for this problem I would be greatful.
Sam
PS Tried the old Remote Selector thingie and it simply did not correct the
problem.
678
> XP Pro, P4 2.4, Pioneer 106 s DVD player, GeForce 3 500 Ti, Power DVD 5 blah
> blah blah
>
>
> WTF is nVidia up to with their latest drivers?
>
> There is apparently some sort of Macrovision detection function built in to
> the latest geforce drivers which disallows any DVD with copyright to be
> played through a computer.
>
> Fuck, fuck and double fuck.
>
> The only way I watch DVDs is through the computer on a flash new 19" TFT
> screen, and now that has been denied me by some wanker deciding to
> arbitrarily stop the watching of DVDs on computers.
Solutions:
1. Watch it with Media Player 9 for XP. But keep POWER DVD installed.
Media Player seems to need the decoder of Power DVD to work. And you can
use whatever drivers you want.
2. Use other DVD player. Some DVD movies come with a player.
3. Use older drivers. Something before 40.
Alex
TJ Robertson
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> There is apparently some sort of Macrovision detection function built in
to
> the latest geforce drivers which disallows any DVD with copyright to be
> played through a computer.
Doesn't that mean that any commercial DVD would be unplayable? As in
WinDVD and PowerDVD become useless?
Somehow I can't believe this until I see it
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Pete
"Pepys" <[removethis]cam...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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use http://www.dvdidle.com/ to get around macrovision.
Pepys
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>
> > There is apparently some sort of Macrovision detection function built in
> to
> > the latest geforce drivers which disallows any DVD with copyright to be
> > played through a computer.
>
> Doesn't that mean that any commercial DVD would be unplayable? As in
> WinDVD and PowerDVD become useless?
>
> Somehow I can't believe this until I see it
You better believe it. Just got rid of Power DVD 5 and reinstalled version
4. Same problem
Tried WinDVD, old versions and the latest - same result.
These control freak poofters make me so angry.
Sam
Pepys
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Went back to the oldest nVidia drivers (40.41) I've got and DVDs now play
again. Really liked the latest drivers for the card though. Much cleaner and
brighter images.
I suppose this is getting us all ready for the introduction of DMR.
Sam
Dan F
Do you get a black box where the picture should be? I was doing, but after
reinstalling the drivers I now only get the black box on my secondary
display, the picture appears fine on the primary display.
Dan
Brad
TV-encoder chip is old (look most Brooktree/Conexant chips) and doesn't
support macrovision. Frankly I don't know why they didn't just make the
driver disable the damn TV-out when you play a DVD.
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Brad
>
> Went back to the oldest nVidia drivers (40.41) I've got and DVDs now play
> again. Really liked the latest drivers for the card though. Much cleaner
and
> brighter images.
>
> I suppose this is getting us all ready for the introduction of DMR.
>
> Sam
You should be able to use up to 40.72 without this issue.
ceedee
foisted on us.
unfortunately it just plays startight into the pirates hands
i for one and im sure many other people too now just download pirated copies
much easier , no cdilla , macrovision , disk grinding copy protections
fooing up my systems and annoying me anymore
no need for cds in drives or dialing up to the internet and authorising
stuff every 5 minutes
if i find something actually worth paying for i do buy it
software authors deserve to get paid for there work
but the original never gets actually used just chucked in a box in a
cupboard
this system im posting from only has legit software on it
it crashes , grinds and falls over quite a lot
my other system has only pirated software on it which
is all cracked or patched including the os
guess what
its the most stable system you will ever see
never blue screens or falls over least so far anyway and its been running
since the
cracked release of win xp was released.
i just wish that software companies would realise that anti piracy measures
just
make pirates more determined to break them.
they just dont work and as the internet gets quicker and is available to
more and more people
the problem of piracy will increase hugely as more and more people discover
that
pirated versions of software and movies and even audio cds are far more
attractive
due to there lack of invasive,damaging or just plain annoying protections
and suchlike
and ironically enough the pirate products perform better and are much more
user freindly than the originals.............
I know this post will attract the anti piracy flame brigade but constructive
points
on this issue are welcomed, flames ignored.
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Jay Sottolano
So, for example, I have XP Pro, with Power DVD, and a new ASUS GF4 4200 8x AGP card. In this configuration, if I update to 43.45 for example, I will/won't be able to watch a commercial DVD on my computer? I'm not looking to send the signal out to TV or second monitor... Thanks...
Jay S.
678
I'm using it and nvidia drivers 44.03. Used to have that error message
like everybody does but somehow that problem just disappeared.
Brad
have tried various macrovision-defeating apps/techniques with success, which
means they may not have had this particular problem in the first place. Most
who have one of the offending chips simply cannot play DVDs without
reverting to the 40.72 drivers, as was the case with me and my Visiontek
GeForce3 Ti200, which has an old Brooktree BT868 chip on it. In some cases
also, nVidia's measures are ineffective (ie, PowerDVD won't work, but WinDVD
will). If you have a newer TV-chip, possibly Phillips, you may have no
problem whatsoever if it supports MV protection.
Again, I don't know why they didn't just disable the TV-out during DVD
playback, instead of disabling DVD playback and pissing everybody off. I
take it all future cards will be made with MV-conforming TV-out chips. Come
to think of it, my old ATI TV Wonder card used a BT868 chip, yet it had
Macrovision protection in the drivers (see, it can be done).
Its so irritating though, trying to copy a DVD thru TV-out is such a cheap
ritarded Mickey Mouse method, plus its just plain EASIER to rip a DVD even
with a bargain-basement DVD-ROM if you really wanted it that bad. You can't
stop the real criminals from copying them with bad drivers, so why piss
everybody else off? I can't do anything about the BT868 chip on my card, nor
did I even ask for it, and DVD playback/acceleration is one of the main
selling features of a decent graphics card, and now they're trying to take
that away from me? They want to disable functionality on a product I already
own, but I don't see nVidia or Visiontek or the assholes behind Macrovision
lining up to give me a prorated refund because my card now does less than
advertised.
For the time being I can deal with 40.72 drivers, since they're DX90, pretty
fast and all that, but what about a year from now if I'm still not ready to
upgrade and I'm stuck with outdated drivers? What then? This is total BS.
Brad
"Jay Sottolano" <sot...@noattbispam.com> wrote in message
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Jay Sottolano
The ASUS card has the Philips chip, but I haven't upgraded the
drivers yet, past the ones that came with the ASUS card (30.71??). I'm
on a different machine right now, so I'd have to look. If the purpose
was to block copying out the back ports, I think you make several valid
points (I have a Ti200 as well in another machine). I'm curious as to
whether the Philips chip eliminates the problem... Thanks for the
explanation...
Jay S,
J.Clarke
The Hollyweird crowd just needs to grok the concept that the days of the
zillionaire musician or actor are coming to an end. The crap they've
been producing has never been worth what they charge for it, and finally
the public has a means to not pay that. Instead of trying desperately
to put the digital genie back in the bottle (ain't gonna happen no
matter how many DMCAs and the like they pass) they should from the start
tried to figure out how they were going to use it to their advantage.
I really like their argument that we need strong copy protection because
piracy stifles innovation--like anything innovative has come out of
Hollywood in the past 50 years. What it's really going to do is stifle
innovation in the software and electronics industries, which is where
much _real_ innovation has taken place over the past 50 years.
Unfortunately Congress has been buying into their crap and nvidia
appears to be running scared.
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