Can you put Macrovision ONTO VCDs/SVCDs???

[Chaoji3791]

Howdy folks,

This question might trigger a shower of rotten tomatoes given the "spirit" of this website, but is there a way of putting Macrovision or some other kind of copy protection ONTO home-made VCDs/SVCDs??? I produce VCDs commercially for a client who is worried that people with CD burners will try to pirate her discs, so she's asked me to do a bit of research and see what I come up with. Any ideas?

Chaoji

[kinneera]

I think there's nothing to prevent you from using macrovision. I may be incorrect, but as I recall it has something to do with color bursts on the luminence channel or somesuch, which can be encoded into VCD and SVCD streams just the same. Unfortunately, I don't think it will help you much. The reason is that macrovision is designed to confuse commercial video recorders (read. VCRs), that take the video as an analog signal. The macrovision basically confuses such devices. Copying a VCD/SVCD, however, is a digital operation. The copy will also have the macrovision, but the macrovision itself won't prevent the act of copying in this fashion. It is this very reason that DVD's were encrypted. Encryption protects digital copying, macrovision protects analog copying.

[Greg12]

ALl DVD Decrytpers can remove Macrovision protection.


Oh and their's no way to encrypt a VCD. You need a DVD-Video authroing suite and a key from the DVD Consortium.

Only ppl with liscenes and keys can own DVD-Video producers.


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