Do CSS and Ripguard conflict?

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You’re good, Alison,

RipGuard is designed to protect the CSS encryption. No CSS, no need for RipGuard, in other words.

Take care,

Trai Forrester
TFDVD Research Labs
DVDVerification.com

[Alison Stevenson]

Thanks Trai. Just what I needed to know.

Alison

Stable Recordings
Scotland

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[Noah Kadner]

Trai- is it possible to put CSS, Macrovision and Ripguard onto one disc or is one or the others more effective?

Noah

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Hi Noah,

Yes, you can put those three schemes onto the same disc. Each are designed to plug a different ‘hole’, and they don’t conflict. Macrovision requires the same 2054 byte sector sizes as CSS formatting does, so usually CSS and Macrovision go together when analog protection is implemented.

I remain neutral on the issue of copy protection. If the client wants it, that’s their prerogative and you won’t hear a peep out of me (the folks who are going to rip and copy will do so easily, no matter what our thoughts are on the matter 🙂

Though, I might let out that there’s no way I’d put Macrovision on any DVD; I’ve seen too many TV’s undulate bright and dark while running a DVD with it!

Take care,

Trai

[Noah Kadner]

Cool- I hear you on Macrovision. Maybe I’ll just go with CSS and Ripguard. Not too worried about the hard core rippers just casual copiers who should know better.

Noah

[Dave Goodbourn]

Hi Alison,

Just a note of caution, you might want to get the manual for Ripguard as you have to adhear to a few small guidlines. Nothing to worry about if the DVD is pretty standard (as in a feature, with some menus) but if the DVD is a complicated iDVD or the likes, Ripguard can become more visual, as they use a lot of dummy black cells in titles.

Cheers,
Dave.