Can u iliminate the signal prohibiting protection from VCD?

[gotenex]

Hm... this is very interesting indeed. I've never come across an Asian VCD that I could not copy until today. When I inserted the VCD into my Plexwriter 24/10/40A, I could not read it in Windows or with any software (Nero, CDRWIN, CloneCD). That's when I came here for help, and read about crazed burner's technique. And it works! I used my old Sony CD-ROM, and I was able to access it via Windows and with CDRWIN and CloneCD. The drive is 5 years old, and is 16x. I made a copy with both programs, and they played back flawlessly on the computer and my DVD player. This whole thing is very odd...

[PigOnWing]

Is there a total idiots guide to stop someone making copies of a disc you may burn for them? I collect movies and have been giving copies to a friend who is distributing them all over town.

Sure there is.

1. Get the movie on VCD / SVCD / DivX / Whatever format.
2. Don't make a copy for friends who distribute it further against your will.

-- Practical Piggie

[PigOnWing]

Ah, I see that House de Kris has already responded in a similar manner as my above response. Good not to feel alone.

Now:

A PC looks for an iso9660 track, a standalone looks for the mpeg track if it can't find the toc.

A stand-alone player cannot look for the MPEG track if it can't find the TOC. The TOC tells the player where the mpeg tracks start and end.

Hmm.

That's logical. Otherwise, VCD1.0/1.1 spec wouldn't need a TOC at all, it could use only MPEG tracks.

Moreover - how should a standalone player treat such a track - as MPEG track or as CDDA track? It's raw data.

It may seem trivial that the player would treat it according to the data type. However in my long post about trying to make a seamless VCD/CDDA Hybrid (another shemless plug), making a VCD2.0 CD, using 1 Data track only, with the following tracks being only CDDA, proves mixed results: One player plays the CDDA tracks fine, another player expect TRACK2 to be MPEG, and plays it silently and at double-counter-speed-rate.

However, I can't argue when someone says 'I've seen this method done, I have such VCDs, it works'. But then my question won't be even 'How', but 'How do I recreate this' (Same question I currently have for a CD-ROM Ready type of disc, mentioned in the abovementioned thread).

Vitalis, can I count on the glove I heard earlier on?

-- Piggie