Cinavia Protected Disks and Blu-ray Players (disks and players ONLY)

[dvdit]

Omegaman7,

Maybe you should check for it in the future. I make a habit of testing for Cinavia after a firmware upgrade. I have six stand alone blu-ray players that are Cinavia free as of now and I would like to keep them that way is case a solution is not found for it.

[SamuriHL]

Yea, I have a test file I use. I re-encoded about 25 minutes of The Losers into an MP4 with 2 channel AACS audio and use that. It trips the PS3 just nicely. You could easily convert one to a DVD to have a test disc that'll play on any player to test it out.

[dvdit]

Originally Posted by SamuriHL

BD-J is a royal pain IMO. Personally I do all my backups as MKV's and use J River's MC17 to play them. I don't have to worry about BD+ and/or BD-J ruining my viewing experience. That's why I feel the SAFEST backup is movie only with none of that code still kicking around. I realize SlySoft is excellent at removing those protections, but, why take the chance? Just nuke that stuff and be done with it.

I hear you. I really want to keep the menu. But if the "movie only" backup of BLACKTHORN, which I am doing now, plays back fine on the PS3 and Powerdvd 9, then I will have to think about the movie only option as my backup method going forward.

[dvdit]

Originally Posted by SamuriHL

Yea, I have a test file I use. I re-encoded about 25 minutes of The Losers into an MP4 with 2 channel AACS audio and use that. It trips the PS3 just nicely. You could easily convert one to a DVD to have a test disc that'll play on any player to test it out.

Good to know. I currently use SALT and THE KARATE KID.

[SamuriHL]

Originally Posted by dvdit

I hear you. I really want to keep the menu. But if the "movie only" backup of BLACKTHORN, which I am doing now, plays back fine on the PS3 and Powerdvd 9, then I will have to think about the movie only option as my backup method going forward.

I completely understand wanting to keep everything. But I do think that movie only is safer until we can get CloneBD to rebuild our discs.

[SamuriHL]

Originally Posted by dvdit

Good to know. I currently use SALT and THE KARATE KID.

Yea, any of those will work. I've got The Losers, Salt, Karate Kid 2010, Green Hornet, and probably a couple more that I'm not thinking of right now. Any of those will make good tests.

[dvdit]

Originally Posted by SamuriHL

until we can get CloneBD to rebuild our discs.

Any ETA on that ?

[SamuriHL]

Originally Posted by dvdit

Any ETA on that ?

There's been a lot of talk about it, and they're saying this is the year, but, no firm date yet. I'm hoping for my birthday next month.

[omegaman7]

I'll certainly pay for CloneBD in a heart beat. Guaranteed!

[SamuriHL]

It should be noted that the initial version of CloneBD won't remove Cinavia. If Cinavia becomes more of a threat going forward, you can bet that it will get updated at some point to do so.