Yesterday, I rented The Kingdom. Went to watch it last night using Media Player Classic. It starts playing previews but the audio is skipping and distorted and the image is corrupted partially. It didn't clear up at the main screen. Seemed like symptoms of a dirty/scratched DVD, although it is like brand new, and sure enough, it was fine. Tried again with MPC, this time it only plays the first two frames then hangs. Try again, same thing (can't even get more than two frames in and it freezes MPC).
Thought maybe an issue with MPC, even though other DVDs have all played fine. I tested my Bourne Identity DVD and it played fine. Didn't feel like getting VLC or some other player that could play DVDs. Tried once more, nope can't get more than two frames in.
Bust out FairUse Wizard and start a rip, cause well I want to watch the damn thing. Starts going fine only to drop down to 0x speed and tries accessing the DVD a bunch. Figured that might happen, as FairUse seems to have problems with DVDs that have significant copy protection on them. So I click cancel on the rip in FU, except the drive is still trying to access the DVD and making some clicking sound every few seconds. So I restart my computer, it finally stops clicking but it won't eject the disc. Get back into windows, and the whole damn drive has disappeared! Still won't eject the disc. Restart again and go into BIOS: DVD drive is no longer detected! WTF? This damn disc bricked my DVD drive?!
I had to turn off my computer, unplug and replug in the optical drive, now its detected again and will eject the disc when requested. So I fire up RitIt4Me, which seems to tear through everything. I rip it to ISO since I wanted to import it into FairUse. Of course, RitIt4Me has no problem with it.
Try playing the DVD once more. Still no go! Mount the ISO I just ripped, watched it that way.
Wow. Was that DRM that caused all of that? And what did it do? Stopped me from playing the damn movie legit, instead had to rip the damn thing just to watch it, so again the pirates are maybe mildly inconvenienced while legit users are screwed. It was an alright movie, but damn, I would never ever purchase it just due to whoever decided to put that kind of DRM on it.
Thought maybe an issue with MPC, even though other DVDs have all played fine. I tested my Bourne Identity DVD and it played fine. Didn't feel like getting VLC or some other player that could play DVDs. Tried once more, nope can't get more than two frames in.
Bust out FairUse Wizard and start a rip, cause well I want to watch the damn thing. Starts going fine only to drop down to 0x speed and tries accessing the DVD a bunch. Figured that might happen, as FairUse seems to have problems with DVDs that have significant copy protection on them. So I click cancel on the rip in FU, except the drive is still trying to access the DVD and making some clicking sound every few seconds. So I restart my computer, it finally stops clicking but it won't eject the disc. Get back into windows, and the whole damn drive has disappeared! Still won't eject the disc. Restart again and go into BIOS: DVD drive is no longer detected! WTF? This damn disc bricked my DVD drive?!
I had to turn off my computer, unplug and replug in the optical drive, now its detected again and will eject the disc when requested. So I fire up RitIt4Me, which seems to tear through everything. I rip it to ISO since I wanted to import it into FairUse. Of course, RitIt4Me has no problem with it.
Try playing the DVD once more. Still no go! Mount the ISO I just ripped, watched it that way.
Wow. Was that DRM that caused all of that? And what did it do? Stopped me from playing the damn movie legit, instead had to rip the damn thing just to watch it, so again the pirates are maybe mildly inconvenienced while legit users are screwed. It was an alright movie, but damn, I would never ever purchase it just due to whoever decided to put that kind of DRM on it.
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