FX 5600/DVD/DMCA Nazis

Good gawd...now the powers that be have decided which movies I can and can't
watch on my home computer.

I tinkered with TV Tool a little bit to no avail. Anyone know of a fix
besides rolling back the drivers?

It's funny seeing how at least one title, Terminator 2, was re-released with
a HD version for computer playback.

Off to the HDTV boards to rant about DVI copyright management...

H.J. Simpson wrote:

Good gawd...now the powers that be have decided which movies I can and can't
watch on my home computer.

I tinkered with TV Tool a little bit to no avail. Anyone know of a fix
besides rolling back the drivers?

It's funny seeing how at least one title, Terminator 2, was re-released with
a HD version for computer playback.

Off to the HDTV boards to rant about DVI copyright management...



It's called Macrovision, a copy protection system used by the DVD
industry (i.e. what you get when you hook up a passthrough to a VCR,
then a DVD).

Nvidia supports it in hardware, but it can be disabled with TVTool.
(AFAIK). You should only see it with TV-out on certain cards. I've
never had a problem with it if I hook my TV out straight into a set via
the S-Video cable. Make sure you're not doing a passthrough system.

I only want to play this on my computer monitor -- not TV out. Is there a
way to disable this latter and allow me to view on PC?
Thx.

H.J. Simpson wrote:
I only want to play this on my computer monitor -- not TV out. Is there a
way to disable this latter and allow me to view on PC?
Thx.



Oh there's something wrong there then. I'd say it could be defective
hardware or possibly manufacturer specific drivers. I know for certain
that DVD playback, even with hardware motion compensation, should work
just fine with any NVidia based card on the 45.23 Detonators.

There's another possibility that you've changed the region code more
than X number of times on your drive and it's not letting you play
whatever region DVD's. And copied DVD's shouldn't play correctly either
(as far as Macrovision is concerned).

In such a case, just Google for "macrovision removal tool" or
"macrovision crack", maybe a region free utility also.