ArcSoft TMT is dead?

[El Heggunte]

This product will be no longer maintained and updated.

source: http://www.arcsoft.com/totalmedia-theatre/

[Cornucopia]

Can you say "corporate monopoly"?



Scott

[jman98]

I can't find any further information about this anywhere. From the website it looks like they are gutting their product line big time and this is one of the products they've killed off. Maybe in the next few days someone with some insider information will talk.

[Brainiac]

This is a real shame because this is the only software of its kind that actually consistently works for me.

Brainiac

[Kerry56]

Bad news, I agree. But I am still using an early version of TMT5 for my main Blu-ray player. It works as well as ever when playing ripped files from the hard drive.

I wonder how well it will do in future operating systems however. TMT3 wouldn't even install in Windows 8.

[devilcoelhodog]

That is the reason I have posted days ago a thread about programs that can play / process correctly ( or not ) menus and all functions that Blu-ray format can offer:


---> https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/367104-Why-Playing-Menus-in-Blu-Rays-are-Limited-to...rograms-Mostly


@ Cornucopia:

corporate monopoly

Maybe Sony and other big companies putting some pressure on "software players makers", like ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre's team developers?


The goal of that strong companies is to limit "playing / processing" Blu-ray content only for stand-alone players, not PC and similar devices?

Or the companies that create/develop Blu-Ray players for PC's are having problems with licensing fee and patent technologies to Sony and other ones?

Maybe Sony and others want limit to the minimum features possible existing on Blu-Ray players for a PC, "forcing" us ( the end-users) watching a Blu-ray content in a stand-alone equipment?

Thanks.

Best regards.

devil (johner)

[jagabo]

Sony is pissed at the PC because that was the source of the AACS cracks. One of the Windows Blu-ray players left the table of client keys unencrypted in memory. "All" someone had to do was run the software with a debugger to find them. It was like Sony developed a strong lock and then the software designer hid the keys to the doormat. Sony much prefers the closed ecosystems you get with set-top players.

The writing was on the wall for TMT for the last few years. Once they started (nearly) giving away copies to run with the Hauppauge HD PVR it was all downhill.

[Cornucopia]

What's interesting is that PC access is both intrinsicly linked to security loopholes as well as to DIY democratization of the format. DVD-video is successful & ubiquitous in part because everyone can create (or recreate?) with it. BD is less accessable, and (therefore?) is less ubiquitous. DVD-Audio & SACD are both minor formats, but DVD-Audio still enjoys a life beyond major corporations' publishing whims, specifically because people can create it themselves. And the PC is central to that.

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Darn it! I had higher hopes for ArcSoft & TMT...

Scott

[jman98]

jagabo - You may be partly mixing up what happened with BluRay with how DVD got cracked, which really was due to some poor code. The reality of using encryption keys is that they have to be decrypted at some point and really smart people can figure out what they are when that happens by looking at memory. There's no way to use them without them becoming visible eventually. Everything I read indicated that sloppy code didn't lead to BluRay being cracked. It was that the developers failed to realize that they can't have their keys protected 100% of the time.

[jagabo]

On December 26, 2006, a person using the alias muslix64 published a utility named BackupHDDVD and its source code on the DVD decryption forum at the website Doom9.[19] BackupHDDVD can be used to decrypt AACS protected content once one knows the encryption key.[20] muslix64 claimed to have found title and volume keys in main memory while playing HD DVDs using a software player, and that finding them is not difficult...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy

[usually_quiet]

TMT was priced higher than the two other similar software players and some hardware Blu-Ray players, and was not marketed as well as Cyberlink's competing product. Older versions of PowerDVD Ultra come bundled with some Blu-Ray drives, and include an attractive upgrade offer, which gives Cyberlink an advantage in the marketplace. I tried TMT and liked its user interface, but went with PowerDVD Ultra on account of the upgrade offer. In my case, I wanted a software player as a temporary substitute for and a supplement to a hardware Blu-Ray player.

[Baldrick]

All arcsoft video products are dead. They are now only making photo programs like http://www.arcsoft.com/product/consumer/apps/#pP365 ...