Need to password-protect a video clip while burning to DVD

[gordond]

I have some rated R movies that I would like to prevent my kids from being able to play in our DVD player. I'm wondering if there is any standard mechanism to encode video clips with a password or rating so they can be protected.

If there is no such mechanism, I was thinking about somehow burning a large number of video files (50+) to the DVD, each with its own access number. One of the files would be the movie itself and all the others would just be blank video files with little or no content. Then I just need a way of directly accessing the video file (stored randomly as one of the files) by entering the clip number. Of course, I wouldn't want all of the thumbnails to appear on the main menu.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

[arealgijoe]

You may have answered your own question. just put a bunch blank or other still picures with time set to infinate and say track 100 be your movie.

don't know IF you can pasword protect a VCD movie, interesting question.

Even though I don't have any young kids or even material not suitable for kids, still might be interesting anyway.

Your are a arn't you?

[snowmoon]

I do believe that VCD, SVCD and DVD's all have a built in ratings mechanism. Check out your DVD player to see if it supports it. In VCDEasy it's options/restriction category.

You could create a locking system out of VCD interactions as well. Basicly set up a maze of menu pages/images that you hit numberic keys in a specific order and you get the movie, otherwise you get sent to a dummy set of menus for the next -n- tries before it just goes to stop. It would not be that difficult. For any n length password you would need n*2-1 menu pages to simulate a locking mechanism. n that key though to the movie and n-1 that accept any input and eventually go to stop ( or whatever else you desire a picture of a lock mabye ). No option listed above restrics people from puttin it into a PC or many DVD players can bypass PBC ( menu's ) and just play VCD tracks.