DVD Burning Fully Operational

[daviddolores]

Does anyone know about (dare I mention it?) ways of decoding any of these copyright blocks? I've read about it on the web on hack sites. I know it's possible to rid DVD players of some of their encoding, but it must also be possible to remove the "copyguard" from DVD burners. Yes, it's illegal, but it probably exists. Those who really know what the deal is, technically, will know what I'm talking about.

dD

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[mattias]

> Mattias, if a D-1 master holds over 50 gigabytes of information...and a DVD holds only 4.7 gibabytes of information, than why do you insist on the belief that it is "easy" to fit the information froma a D-1 master onto a DVD?

BECAUSE IT IS EASY. NO MAGIC. UNDERSTAND? AND IT'S NOT A FUCKING "BELIEF". UNLIKE YOU, I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.

did you hear me ok? i tried yelling since i seemed to have trouble getting through before.

/matt

[Alex]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Courier, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Alex:
Mattias, if a D-1 master holds over 50 gigabytes of information...and a DVD holds only 4.7 gibabytes of information, than why do you insist on the belief that it is "easy" to fit the information froma a D-1 master onto a DVD?

I haven't changed the discussion one bit.

Compressing by a factor of over 10-1 onto a DVD is not that easy, and it certainly isn't done in real time when you are talking about the creation of a glass master from a D-1 or Digital BetaCam Feature Film Video Master.

-Alex
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Mattias, you keep referring to DVD copies made one by one...

I'm talking about two separate issues...

Even if you can make a DVD yourself in real time while you drink a beer, that is certainly not the way the glass masters are made by Duplication houses before they make their run of several thousand DVD's.

-Alex

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[mattias]

once again you change the subject. creating a "glass master" or whatever it's called has nothing to do with converting video to mpeg-2 for the purpose of storing two hours on one dvd, so it doesn't matter what i'm talking about. did you or did you not say before that the reason it was expensive to make a "glass master" was because it was so hard to compress the data?

/matt

[Alex]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Courier, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by mattias:
once again you change the subject. creating a "glass master" or whatever it's called has nothing to do with converting video to mpeg-2 for the purpose of storing two hours on one dvd, so it doesn't matter what i'm talking about. did you or did you not say before that the reason it was expensive to make a "glass master" was because it was so hard to compress the data?

/matt<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Mattias, first of all, I was asking questions on this topic post that never got entirely answered...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Courier, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Alex:
I think the answer was up above, Big Duplication houses use glass masters to make
DVD's very quickly ( a few seconds???)....

....but only after having spent thousands of dollars on the initial DVD Glass Master.

Scott, could you take your computer files that you use to make one DVD, and bring it to a mass duplicator that makes glass master DVD's, and have them make you a glass master for purposes of Mass DVD reproduction?

-Alex

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The only answers to my question above were from Scott, who said he would look into it, and from you, and you first ridiculed the idea of additional blue sky compression, then you said a DVD can be made at home with the proper software packages while one goes and gets a beer....

I don't believe the Glass Master is made as simply as one makes a DVD.

-Alex



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[mattias]

> I don't believe the Glass Master is made as simply as one makes a DVD.

me neither, but the two processes have nothing to do with each other. mastering the dvd can be done at home while you go have a beer, after pressing play in your mpeg encoder. it really is that simple. trust me, i've done it myself. glass mastering is the laser, magnetic, vaccum, whatever process that creates the "stamp" for duplication. and i'm pretty sure you can go have a beer while that machine is running as well. :-)

if you think that it's harder to *compress* the video for glass master use than for dvd-r (actually, i think that's what you said), i'd *really* like to hear an explanation to that.

/matt