Possible to password protect a dvd using dvdlabpro or any..?

[shadowofanubis6]

Is it possible to make it so when you put the dvd in the dvd player, it asks for a password or something before you can view it? Thta'd be great, although im not sure if it's possible. I primarily use dvdlab-pro to author my dvd's

[liquid217]

http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/tutorial/keypad.html

[shadowofanubis6]

Thanks alot liquid, wow this program is amazing haha.

[shadowofanubis6]

What kind of settings should i use in order to make it so the only way the person watching the dvd can pass the lock is to enter the right code? Like... no menu skipping or track selecting until u enter the right code or something.

[lordsmurf]

Some DVD players can TOTALLY BYPASS this by accessing the tracks with the NUMBER BUTTONS on the remote. I do not believe the disc has proper PUOs on it to prevent such work-arounds.

[Gurm]

You can't. I mean, unless your authoring program can burn in PUO's. And even then you can just hit "stop", and then "1" on your DVD remote and play track 1.

It's of limited usefulness, to be certain.

[Cornucopia]

And if somebody rips it (DVDdecrypter and IFOEdit), they can get rid of all those things anyway.


Short term gain, only works on the very technophobic.

Scott

[shadowofanubis6]

I got it to work, dvdlab pro let me prohibit what the user can do on the dvd password menu i made, so the only thing you can do is get the right password. Of course dvddecrypter or ifoedit could take that out, but for it lying around the house with the family, i have no issues there . I'm the only one who knows those 2 programs.

[Gurm]

I got it to work, dvdlab pro let me prohibit what the user can do on the dvd password menu i made, so the only thing you can do is get the right password. Of course dvddecrypter or ifoedit could take that out, but for it lying around the house with the family, i have no issues there . I'm the only one who knows those 2 programs.

Really? They can't hit "stop" and then "1"?

[shadowofanubis6]

I got it to work, dvdlab pro let me prohibit what the user can do on the dvd password menu i made, so the only thing you can do is get the right password. Of course dvddecrypter or ifoedit could take that out, but for it lying around the house with the family, i have no issues there . I'm the only one who knows those 2 programs.

Really? They can't hit "stop" and then "1"?

Nope, I prohibited hitting stop as well.

[Gurm]

Hmm, ok. Wanna bet?

You just have to know when to hit stop... heh.

[GeorgeW]

That Stop/Play trick can get around it (I tried it a few months ago). The keypad does stop the casual viewer, and as stated, anyone with a PC/DVD-Rom drive can open it up to figure out the code.

I like to add a slight twist to the keypad -- on BAD3, I go to a counter list. The first two times into the counter list, I return to the Start menu. On the 3rd time, I go to a new BAD3A screen that looks like BAD3, but has the word "LOCKED" going diagonally across the front, and I set all the PUOP's -- this forces the viewer to stop the dvd playback, and re-start it (just an annoyance for the viewer).

Maybe if you put a dummy video that autoplays, then goes into your main movie sequence. But before going into the main movie sequence, you check for a GPRM that you set during the password verification. If the GPRM is not assigned properly, you start at the password validation screen. I haven't tried it, anyone want to give it a go???

[Gurm]

Ooh that'd be good. Put the actual video on some obscure title, and make title 1 just some still saying "haha you got pwn3d!"

[Edmund Blackadder]

Really? They can't hit "stop" and then "1"?

This is not DVDLabPro related, but using DVDMaestro. I can program the DVD in such a way that even if you manage to bypass STOP PUO and then press a title number on a keypad, it still won't play that title. I use command sequences and program GPRM with certain conditions. So yes, you can press the title number on the keypad, the player will seem to go about to play that title, but will not be able to. Instead you program what player should do in case certain GPRM requirements are not satisfied and instruct it to go to a menu, for example. I've done it before for the "Easter Eggs" on my productions and people really had to search for it in order to play the protected title.

This is the same exact principle that's used for RCE protected DVD's. I can easily create RCE protected disc in DVDMaestro, and because it will not have a real region code on it, it can confuse the hell out of the players that switch regions automatically (I tested it) - therefore making this sort of region protection even more effective than a combination of CSS/Region Code/RCE. Only the players that were locked into a certain regioon code could play my RCE test DVD's. Same idea goes for passwords.

Of course you can reverse engineer that with a program that can alter your IFO's, but the original DVD for the average viewer will be pretty much protected for 100% from unauthorized use.

So if DVDLabPro supports GPRM command sequences, try to explore that possibility.