DVDShrink and CSS Protection

[vandam]

Hi,

I read all of the guides/articles but it doesn't mention much about the CSS protection.

What exactly is it and how does it affect the dvdr (or I should say playback of the dvdr) if I don't do anything to bypass the protection?

Secondly, does DVDshrink break the CSS protection because one of my original dvds which I plan on backing up has this CSS protection when I run DVD Decrypter, it says Protection: CSS. My favorite program is DVDshrink. Will DVDshrink break or bypass this protection during re-encoding?

Any help regarding this subject is greatly appreciated.

[tumbar]

Will DVDshrink break or bypass this protection during re-encoding?[/quote]

yes it will.

[vandam]

thanks for your help tumbar

what kind of protection is it (a type of macrovision?) and how does it affect the movie? or the resulting dvdr.

[Gil T Pleasure]

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet, er Content Scrambling System.

Instead of trying to explain it (and botching it up in the process), read this article instead: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Kesden/

Taken from the article:

CSS, which includes both player-host mutual authentication and data encryption, is used to protect the content of DVDs from piracy and to enforce region-based viewing restrictions. It may also have other purposes and certainly has other side-effects.

Also, I believe DVDShrink does not remove Macrovision.

[txpharoah]

Also, I believe DVDShrink does not remove Macrovision.

Yep, no removal. It just breaks the digital protection, not the analog stuff. How many people back up DVD to VHS anyway?