DVD playback software that ignores UOP?

[RarelyEvil]

Hello everyone,

I, like many people, hate it when you can't skip straight to a DVD's menu, but are forced to watch all the FBI-warnings and anti-pirating commercials. If I downloaded the DVD they have cut these warning, yet if I buy them I have to go through up to three minutes of whining. It's called UOP: User Operation Prohibited and it's freaking annoying.

I hear a lot of people complaining about this, so I gathered there MUST be some way around this. I know it's possible to rip the DVD to your disk and remove the UOP in the process... But, is there some freeware that is capable of playing store-bought DVDs while ignoring the UOP-tags?

Thanks for any tips,
RarelyEvil.

[Baldrick]

AnyDVD but it's not freeware. Maybe possible using some free player like vlc, smplayer or kmplayer.

[ntscuser]

A third party firmware update such as the kind installed on my Pioneer allows me to skip UOPs.

[RarelyEvil]

Thanks for the tips guys!

I'll try the players and go Google some more for firmware.

[manono]

Oppo players can skip right to the menu or the movie.