VisualHub - quick try, major failure

Scott Anguish scott at cocoadoc.com
Wed Apr 4 09:43:14 PDT 2007


On Apr 4, 2007, at 3:35 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

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>>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Anguish <scott at cocoadoc.com> writes:
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> Scott> I ended up trying the same thing with HandBrake
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> "Same thing"?  Those aren't comparable.
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> Visual Hub does *not* have CSS-decode in it.  It can't take a typical
> off-the-shelf DVD and do anything sensible.  Perhaps that's the  
> "scrambling"
> you're seeing.
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> Handbrake *does* have the CSS-decode in it.  That's *all* it knows  
> how to do:
> take a CSS-encoded DVD and rip out a program.  It *cannot* take an  
> arbitrary
> video and convert it to anything.
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> They're precisely complementary, and completely *not* interchangable.
>
> Perhaps that's your confusion.

	likely it is.

	their website is unclear. It says "we do DVDs", so I assumed that it  
was all DVDs

	sigh.. I hate DRM.


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