dvd question- encryption

craigunderhill wrote on 9/23/2002, 2:33 PM

ok.. when i'm done in vegas, i go to dvd-r. but, my dvd software doesn't include encryption or macrovision protection. anyone know of something other than a $10,000 dvd authoring suite that can do this? maybe a third party app?

thanks.

-craig

Comments

kkolbo wrote on 9/23/2002, 3:06 PM

Master to a DVD-R and take it to a replicator than can do that for you when they print the distribution DVD's.

K

craigunderhill wrote on 9/24/2002, 9:29 AM

well.. i'm not talking about mass production. there are cases where it would be useful to encrypt discs that are on dvd-r.

nolonemo wrote on 9/24/2002, 10:20 AM

Here's a thread in vcdhelp.com about copy protecting VCDs, for what it's worth.

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=104098&highlight=copy+protect%2A

craigunderhill wrote on 9/24/2002, 11:14 AM

it's a start. thanks.

nolonemo wrote on 9/25/2002, 2:36 PM

Here's another thread. Looks like the answer is no.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&safe=off&th=de1c3a36c329e4fd&rnum=2

altphase wrote on 9/25/2002, 4:46 PM

As far as know, CSS encryption is not possible using general DVD-R media. The same may be true for macrovision. You would need a professional DVD-R recorder/media and software that has lincensed macrovision for use with encoding DVDs.

nolonemo wrote on 9/25/2002, 5:02 PM

Spruce Technology's DVD Maestro allows you to set the Macrovision bit. (Spruce has been bought by Apple, but I understand the software is still being sold). What I don't know is if you can burn a DVD-R with the Macrovision bit set.

nolonemo wrote on 10/28/2002, 12:29 PM

I had access to DVD Maestro this weekend, so I did a little test and burned a short clip with macrovision enabled. The clip played fine, and the bit is set, since my mini DV camera analog in recognized the clip as being protected and refused to allow recording or pass-through. But, when I tried making a VHS copy of the clip, the copy looked pretty much OK, but I'm not sure why. My DVD player is a Toshiba 3805, I assumed it would recognize the Macrovision and do whatever it does to the output. Anyway, FYI.