Silent Hill - R2 Germany

[blutach]

This is a disgusting attempt by the studios to write invalid filesystems. :devil:

German users trying to rip this DVD see http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=71650

You will need RipIt4Me (http://www.ripit4me.org/) and you have to change your DVD Decrypter Filesystem to parse setting to ISO9660.

Anyone who is interested in looking at the filesystem, have a look at the bin file posted here (http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?postid=460932#post460932) in ISObuster. The UDF filesystem is totally screwed up (and that is the one that the player reads) and the ISO9660 is not far behind (but only corrupt on worthless BUPs).

But that is not all (it's like an ad for steak knives). The BUPs and IFOs do not match - this is illegal and worse, does not give the purchaser of the DVD the protection he/she paid for. One IFO is actually missing and the poor user relies totally on the BUP!

Hang on - there's more. The chapter table in the IFO (well, the BUP since the IFO was 0 bytes) had a bad pointer that pointed outside the IFO!

Not finished yet ....... More bad entries in VMGM, where number of titlesets and titles are incorrect (easily spotted and fixed).

And finally, in the only filesystem that worked (go back to Win 95 to do this DVD!), there were fake titlesets.

I sure hope the movie was worth it.

Quite frankly, German users should rail against this junk by not buying the DVD.

Regards

[Sir Didymus]

That's really crazy, and the producers of such rubbish are putting themselves totally outside of the DVD specifications.

I frankly have serious doubts regarding the percentage of players capable of playing such title.

A valid UDF filesystem is mandatory in the DVD-VIDEO. Other filesystems, like ISO9660, may co-exist in the DVD, but UDF is mandatory, afaik. Consider that in the early days of the DVD, it was supposed (and expected) that ISO9660 was eventually phased out...

I really hope this escalation of bad practices may only lead to bad consequences for the producers themself: people bringing back their titles to the shops and legal troubles for disallowing the right of the users to make ONE copy of the titles they legitimately possess.
:angry:

[setarip_old]

I have a vague recollection of another DVD being referred to a while ago in this same fashion - only to have it discovered at a later date that it was the result of a bad pressing.

I wonder?...

[blutach]

Definitely not a bad pressing. Have a look at the files in the thread referred to in post 1.

Regards