DVD playback and new drivers

It does not make DVDs unplayable, it makes them unplayable if your card's
TV-encoder chip is old (look most Brooktree/Conexant chips) and doesn't
support macrovision. Frankly I don't know why they didn't just make the
driver disable the damn TV-out when you play a DVD.


"Pepys" wrote in message
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XP Pro, P4 2.4, Pioneer 106 s DVD player, GeForce 3 500 Ti, Power DVD 5
blah
blah blah


WTF is nVidia up to with their latest drivers?

There is apparently some sort of Macrovision detection function built in
to
the latest geforce drivers which disallows any DVD with copyright to be
played through a computer.

****, **** and double ****.

The only way I watch DVDs is through the computer on a flash new 19" TFT
screen, and now that has been denied me by some ****** deciding to
arbitrarily stop the watching of DVDs on computers.

If they think this is going to stop piracy - think again.

The only advice I have received so far to overcome this annoying problem,
is
to rip the DVD to my hard drive, hack out the macrovision element of the
show and take it from there.

If anyone knows of a fix for this problem I would be greatful.



Sam

PS Tried the old Remote Selector thingie and it simply did not correct the
problem.