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Re: off topic: dvd question




On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Erez Doron wrote:

> You all got me wrong !
> 
> the question is if there is a possibility to decode the mpeg
> film on one computer while the DVD drive is on another.

Technically - YES. Takhlis - NO.

1. QOS. you can't assure not getting interrupts in the stream unless you
are doing one-on-one or a switch in the middle

2. Creative's @#$%^! software will not play a DVD mpegII stream, even if
the decoder card is installed right, if it can't find a local DVD. I know
that because on my multiboot system, DVDs are seen fine from all OSes
(even films are in iso9660 on DVDs for now) but some registry problem
won't let creative's software see a DVD or a CDROM on the system,
therefore it won't play it, even if fed the file manually.


> 
> I ask this because I was told that there is some encription
> or simmiliar in the DVD to disable pepole copying the Movie 
> from  the DVD, so one ca not read the data from the disc and 
> send it as an mpegII stream on the net, unless one have the
> knoledge of how to decript the movie

not that I know of any such thing, but it seems to me it's a propriatory
format of the MPEGII file, which is internal. the access itself is like a
regular iso9660 filesystem.

> btw: I do have 13Mbps nics, they are DSL nics.

that's interesting. I know *DSL is a box that sits on the two ends of an
analog link to your local telco office, ending with an Ethernet output at
your home, to which you connect with a regular hub. I understand you are
saying you have DSL in your PC? do you simply hook up the phone line
directly to the PC for that? can it really work in a one-on-one in-house
setup? I thought *DSL doesn't do symetric transmission... other than SDSL
with same-speed-both-ways but still not same modulation (like V.90)

please enlighten us then...

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