Saturday, March 04, 2006

Watching a DVD on your Computer

Watching a DVD on your computer may not be as easy as it sounds. I have been frustrated year after year of all of this software that comes with DVDs to supposedly let you watch it on your computer. All of this software is half assed and my computer has crashed so many times when trying to view a DVD that I bought. I think that it's a load of crap that you cannot watch a DVD you bought on your or any computer. The reason you need this software is because the DVDs are encrypted with CSS (Content Scrambling System). The DeCSS is the program needed to decrypt the DVDs, but is not available free because the people who created CSS wants you to use hardware to play the movie so they could receive royalties on it. Crock of shit. Anyway, now you don't have to have non free software or hardware to play DVDs on your computer. This program is called DVD43. It runs in your background and recognizes when you put a DVD in and will decrypt everything allowing you to watch the DVD in a multitude of media players. While it's not the ideal solution, it's still one that works. Hope you enjoy.

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