dvd encryption

[devdev]

I've been asked by a client to encrypt dvds to give some level of protection against copying. would you have any recommendations as to what software is best for this?

Secondly, i'm guessing that there are are different degrees of encyption would not sure - would that be right?

my master dvd to be duplicated is a dual layer +R disc in dvd video

[aedipuss]

can't be done unless you send them out to a manufacturing plant to make pressed copies. burners can't write to the css area.

[devdev]

Thanks aedipuss.

Do you know what kind quantities a plant would normally look at? and out of curiousity how do they do it then?

[MOVIEGEEK]

Replication usually requires a minimum of 1000 units and can take 5-10 days to complete, very few replication companies in the world have the ability to encrypt DVD's and it costs more. Search "DVD replication" in the UK and email the companies to see if they encrypt.

http://www.mediareplication.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=48

[devdev]

thank you moviegeek

appreciated

[Cornucopia]

Some replication houses use 300 or 500 as their minimum, but it actually turns out not to be any cheaper than for 1000...

@devdev, even replicated Hollywood movies with the most advanced, newest combination of encryptions is still able to be ripped by even the majority of newbie users (well, at least those who have attempted to get some assistance from THIS site). So you were sent on a fool's errand...

Scott

[jman98]

@devdev, even replicated Hollywood movies with the most advanced, newest combination of encryptions is still able to be ripped by even the majority of newbie users (well, at least those who have attempted to get some assistance from THIS site). So you were sent on a fool's errand...

Scott

It may not necessarily be a fool's errand. I have friends and family who are completely stopped dead in their tracks by simple CSS because learning how to defeat it would require 5-10 minutes worth of internet research and work and they've decided that it's simply not worth the time. Yes, for sure anyone who is really interested in copying the disc will not be defeated by CSS or ARCCOS, etc., but if the goal is simply to stop the people who don't know how to do anything except drag from VIDEO_TS into Nero, then that's an easily achievable goal. And that might stop more people than you may think. Remember, most people are not video geeks. Even ARCCOS completely and utterly stops people dead in their tracks when DVD Shrink or DVD Decrypter fail to decrypt discs that use it, even though it's trivial to find a program that can defeat it.

devdev - Technically speaking there's not different levels of encryption in DVD, although if you are Hollywood and insanely paranoid about it, you can pay to use "bad sector copy protection" programs like ARCCOS on top of CSS, but CSS is the only encryption format that DVD natively supports. You can also pay for Cinavia with the understanding that it's useless on devices that don't recognize it.