Way to defeat DVD TV OUT copy protection?

[OverDose]

Most titles I play when in TV OUT mode refuse to play due to "copyright protection" so I have to START the movie in monitor mode and then switch it to TV mode after I begin the movie so it doesn't complain, anyway to defeat this? I'm using a TI200 visiontek and PowerDVD 4/XP

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Doesn't DVDGenie take care of Macrovision, besides playing multi-region discs?

 

[OverDose]

No, PowerDVD reports an error that specifically says the TV OUT function is restricted for playing copyrighted discs blah blah blah

 

[AnitaPeterson]

i have no idea, then...

 

[codehack2]

Probably not the solution your looking for, but Sima makes a device that "disables" macrovision on a video signal.. This device goes for about $50.

Here is a link to the BestBuy Product Page

CH2

 

[CQuinn]

AFAIK there is a different type of macrovision that the Sima device won't help with, as there is no macrovision in the
video signal, instead it is in the encoding information from the DVD. The DVD player checks for that encoding bit, and
if it is enabled, then will either block the video from going out, or will add the older type of macrovision to the signal.

If DVDGenie does not support tweaking PowerDVD the way you need, you might consider ripping the DVD down to the
Hard drive and playing back from there. I have not tried it myself, but some rip tools claim to also strip off the
macrovision bit from the encoding as part of the DeCSS process.

 

[OverDose]

yeah I just rip em and move em to DIVX and they fit on a 650mb CD, no problems and quality is still there, would like to figure out how to disable the check for my originals when i'm not playing "backups'

 

[imgod2u]

use a different DVD software I suppose. Don't know whether WinDVD is as anal. Either way, why not just switch from monitor to TV, it's not that big of a hassle.