Software or Cracks! DVD on TV-OUT!

[Crashman]

I have a Powercolor video card with TV-OUT. This one did not come with WinDVD 200, so I used my own copy. I get a message that it "cannot display images from copywrited DVD's to my TV out". And it doens't. InterVideo says that I need new drivers, to contact Macrovision for more info. Macrovision says that I need a special chip to enable copy protection, and that my card does not have it. So I can't watch DVD on my TV! I bought the damn card to use in my home theater PC, so this could be a real problem! InterVideo says it isn't their fault, the block is required by law whenever this protection hardware is not present, via an agreement with Macromedia. Macromedia has no care for end users and refuses to help. Who do I sue?
I tried FreeDVD, POS couldn't even detect my DVD drive. So now I'm looking into more questionable ways in order to watch my DVD's.
1.)Does anyone know of any decoder software I can use that will NOT disable the TV-OUT?
2.)If not, does anyone know how to hack the WinDVD 2000 program so I can disable the blocking feature?


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[phsstpok]

I hate Macrovision! I had a similar problem when I purchased a home DVD player, 3 years ago. Having an older television, I thought I could just connect my DVD player using my VCR's composite video input but the Macrovision safeguard kicked in and blocked this. I had no intention of copying DVDs. I just wanted to watch them. Fortunately, for me, a Radio Shack, auto-switching RF modulator worked.

As for your problem. The only thing I recall was a piece of software written for Linux. I seem to remember that someone ported it to the PERL language. Free PERL interpreters are available for Windows. Some people claimed that they would use the ported PERL program as their signature because it is so short. I thought that was an amusing idea.

Sorry, I don't have any direct links. (The above is from memory). I believe any search engine will lead you to your answers. Use the keywords DVD and MPEG2. You can also try searching through the info at <A HREF="http://www.opendvd.org" target="_new">http://www.opendvd.org</A>.

Good luck! Down with Macrovision!

 

[HolyGrenade]

You might find something in <A HREF="http://www.dvd-digest.com" target="_new">http://www.dvd-digest.com</A>. I use Remote Selector. It works really well with my Dxr3 card. It even lets you disable region check.


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