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I actually bought a bunch of DVDs of my kids' favorite films to burn and have on my NAS. And woah! I completely underestimated how much user hostile anti-pirac
by DoingIsLearning 3y ago
I actually bought a bunch of DVDs of my kids' favorite films to burn and have on my NAS.
And woah! I completely underestimated how much user hostile anti-piracy tech has grown in the past 20 years .
Couldn't even play my DVD, that I bought, with my money, on my computer. Had to install a bunch of libraries to deal with all the file chunking and mangling they do now, just to play a video, not even burning it, just play.
Really raised my blood pressure that one.
- Condition1952 3y agoThose entrepreneurs are nagging you to look for films online because plastics accumulate forever
- extraduder_ire 3y agoWhat extra odd things could they have done to DVDs that would make them harder to rip? I assume they wouldn't want to break compatibility with existing players. Mainstream DVDs have pretty much always been a collection of .TS files on the disc, best ripped with specialized software. Things like VLC pull in those libraries upon install anyway. Also, I think you mean "rip" rather than "burn", if you mean to copy data from the disc to your machine.
- DoingIsLearning 3y agoToday I learned a fair deal, burn!=rip, and that DVDs have always had chunked .ts files. Definitely had to bring in a bunch of new libs on Debian (still on 'bullseye') to make it work, nothing automagic happened.
- jspizziri 3y agoIf you haven’t already, you should check out MakeMKV. You can buy it or use it free with the beta keys, and it should solve your problem. https://makemkv.com/ https://makemkv.com/