Posted by Mike S. on 02/18/07 23:41

In article <44oht2h24194rod7p3uu6m6j306aodumtv@4ax.com>,
dgates <dgates@somedomain.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:20:31 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
><spamfree@nobody.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On 2/18/2007, SA posted this:
>>> I'm looking for a new DVD player. I mainly want one that can be hacked so I
>>> can push Fast Forward or Menu any time. It really pisses me off when my DVD
>>> player tells me I can't do what I want to do - like go right to the menu and
>>> skip all the warnings and crap.
>>>
>>> Any recommendations on a good hackable DVD player and info on the hacks?
>>
>>Those things are programmed into the content, not the player.
>>
>>Some software used to rip and reburn the DVD on your computer lets you
>>delete the restrictions from the files before copying to the new DVD.
>
>
>But the ideal solution wouldn't be to spend 15 or more minutes copying
>the DVD just to save yourself watching a 30-second intro two or three
>times, or however many times you watch the movie.
>
>Aren't there DVD players that will always allow you to jump straight
>to the film's main menu, regardless of what the DVD is trying to do?

In the early days of Chinese-designed DVD players like the Apex and Sampo
models, there were lots of hacks and interbreeding of firmware from
different models based on the same ESS chipset. Some of those hacks did,
indeed, enable the user to bypass UOPs that were encoded into discs. I
think, though, that such projects (like OFFA) have been abandoned long
ago, leaving as the only recourse the need to rip the content from the DVD
and remove the UOPs using a utility like FreeDVD.

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