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Wrathchild

Wrathchild

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Because my TV doesn't have enough outputs, I have my DVD player connected through my VCR. Theoretically, you're not supposed to be able to do this, but everything works the way it's meant to, so *that's* OK.

I've tried a couple of times now to record from a DVD just to see if it can be done. Picture wise, the results were perfect, but I didn't get any sound. Does anyone know of a way around this, or a special adapter I can buy that would fix it?

W
 
Id say it has something to do with the A/V cable, do you have all 3 inputs for it? If not, theres your problem. If you do, then I have no idea whats wrong....

:D
 
I do have an extra cable thingy that doesn't seem to be connected to anything. I wonder what would happen if I plugged that into one of the AV inputs?

My plan is to borrow all the X-Files DVD box sets (Season 1-3 so far) and record them so I have uncut, commercial free copies of every episode without having to buy Foxtel :).

Chris Carter and Co have conned me into wasting so much time and money over the years. Ergo, I have no qualms about ripping them off...

W
 
I have no idea,i got my dvd running straight to the tv.Then i record normally off a channel.

Heres your excuse to buy a new tv wrathy,a real big one,like 180 centimetres.go on you know you want to
 
I always thought DVD's were encoded in such a way that playback stuffed up your video if taping it... like when they brought out Star Wars a few years ago on video the picture and sound went all spaz if you copied it but works fine on the tv.. ?

I once tried to copy a dvd and it copied shit as on vhs...

If you can get S-Video and or Component inputs to work on your t.v. then quality will be heaps better.

Good luck...
 
Originally posted by Wrathchild
I do have an extra cable thingy that doesn't seem to be connected to anything. I wonder what would happen if I plugged that into one of the AV inputs?

My plan is to borrow all the X-Files DVD box sets (Season 1-3 so far) and record them so I have uncut, commercial free copies of every episode without having to buy Foxtel :).

Chris Carter and Co have conned me into wasting so much time and money over the years. Ergo, I have no qualms about ripping them off...

W
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If you are using an A/V connection with three plug thingos and you are only using 2, then thats the problem, to get sound you have to have a tv with all 3 inputs, I dont know if theres another way around it though.
 
I don't think the ability to copy DVDs to videos has much to do with the actual DVD player, it just depends whether the particular DVD you are trying to copy is proptected or not. I have had no problem copying some DVDs, but others don't work, simply because they have copyright protection.

Is the same with videos, older ones can be copied no worries, some newer ones are protected and some aren't.
 
Originally posted by Los4words
I always thought DVD's were encoded in such a way that playback stuffed up your video if taping it
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Most are. But there are always ways around it..

Originally posted by spawn

If you are using an A/V connection with three plug thingos and you are only using 2, then thats the problem, to get sound you have to have a tv with all 3 inputs, I dont know if theres another way around it though.
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1 channel is for visual. The other 2 are for sound (left and right channels). You could set the sound options on the DVD player to mono, and then it would only use one of those 2 cables.
 
Originally posted by Sydo


You could set the sound options on the DVD player to mono
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MONO?! Oh why dont we all go back to living in 1978 then! ;)

*Starts up the stayin alive music*
 
Originally posted by spawn


MONO?! Oh why dont we all go back to living in 1978 then! ;)

*Starts up the stayin alive music*
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Yeah I know.. but if his video hasn't got a third AV plug it must be mono too.
 
It's called Macromedia Content Protection, and it's to stop scumbags like you from ripping off the huge multi-billion dollar money-hungry evil studios...er I mean the artists, the poor defensive cute little fuzzy artists. And according to US law it's illegal to try to crack it.

There was a case a few months back where a RUSSIAN cracked it in RUSSIA so he could play his DVDs on his Linux OS in RUSSIA. Of course, he then released it to the world because there is/was no authorised DVD player in Linux and he though it might be useful. The FBI lured him to the US on some pretense, then arrested him and threw him in prison for about 6 months.

Upshot is: cain't do nuttin' about it. Unless you buy a pirate version on a trip to Hong Kong. Or download the crack, then you can play on your PC and record it that way. I think it's called DeCSS. But as far as I know, there's no "magic box" to be able to just tape it.
 
Originally posted by Sydo


Yeah I know.. but if his video hasn't got a third AV plug it must be mono too.
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I know, I was making a JOKE!

"I was trying to bring some joy into their grey little lives" - Nigel Tufnell ;)
 
Mehtinks this could be my chance to make life long connections to the world of organised crime.

Mmmmm... organised crime

"Don Wrathy, my DVD player, she won't-a copy de X-a Files! I bake a special doughnut, just-a for you"

"That's-a-nice-a-doughnut"

And so forth :).

W
 
Originally posted by Wrathchild

"Don Wrathy, my DVD player, she won't-a copy de X-a Files! I bake a special doughnut, just-a for you"

"That's-a-nice-a-doughnut"

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:lol:
 
This subject reminded me that I had to go out and learn some more about this stuff, which I only know basically. It turns out that most of what I was speaking was crap.

The content protection scheme is CSS (content scrambling scheme) and it's more of a "player" protection rather than a "content" protection. i.e. you can't play a DVD unless it's got this fancy CSS, which restricts manufacturers rather than playing. And it's not from Macromedia. I was getting it mixed us with Macrovision Safedisk, which is something else entirely.

DeCSS is the name of the scheme hack

Dmitri Sklyarov is the guy that was arrested.

Thinking about it further it made no logical sense to me that the scheme is going to work once the picture is decoded and in the wires heading off to the TV, so the thing that LT pointed to would be a good thing to try.

Nerds rule. Spiff, an a few years when you can't remotely program your toaster to open your curtains and set up the video to adjust the airconditioner which will track your shopping needs based on the barcodes on what you have in your fridge, don't come crying to me.
 
Well I actully don't own a DVD but a PS2. Originally I ran mine through the VCR so I could hear the games through my stero. Then one day I decided to borrow my neighbour copy of Charlie Angels and Texas Chainsaw Massacre on DVD. It did'nt work the picture just waved in & out , I guessed it was to do with copying DVD' S to Video. Again Wrathy my Tv only has one outlet cause its an old Telly . Brought an adaptor which gotes straight to the TV buy the sound is shithouse hve to turn it right up and if you forget after the DVD is over it scares the cap out of you. Ideally I need about $2k to buy a TV with 3 AV outlets/ inputs.
 
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