HD DVD any way I can (Mac Pro)

[jasonbrennan]

Okay some heads up things: I've got a Mac Pro (with Nvidia 7300GT card in it) connected over DVI to my LG L204WT display. Apparently this combo is not HDCP compliant (damn The Man!). I've also got an xbox hddvd drive. And I'm running Leopard (so I've got udf 2.5).

When trying to watch any movie in Windows, it won't let me (not compliant). I can however, watch movies on my Macbook Pro, but I'd like to watch it on a nicer display, you know? And plugging in my display to the laptop doesn't work for playback either. So I am at a loss.

And yes I've looked around the forums a little bit, but I still need some help.

So I think the best route I should take is ripping the movie to watch it. Ideally I'd like to do everything in Leopard but if I can't, I guess I can use Windows.

I'm trying to use DumpHD on my Mac but I'm really confused about the whole "aacskeys wrapper" thing. How do I get that working? Will it even compile for OS X? So how do I go from there?

And also, lets imagine I do get a disc to rip (with your help of course), how to I go about playing it back? I believe there are no software players for Mac OS X yet, but I think there's a way to convert the rip with ffmpeg? Am I correct? Anybody have a guide for that?

So please let me know what I can do. I'm a computer science student, and while I don't claim to know everything about computers, I'm also not totally braindead so don't be too afraid to be a little technical if need be. Thanks in advance for any help!

Jason

[KenD00]

Well, because AnyDVD HD is the only tool around that can decrypt MKBv4 titles your only way to playback / decrypt recent titles is Windows + AnyDVD HD + HD-DVD Softwareplayer (PowerDVD Ultra, Nero, WinDVD HD and another one i can't remember).

I don't know how / if you can playback HD-DVD on Mac, but im pretty sure DumpHD runs on Leopard ;). But i'm not so sure about aacskeys and because i don't have a mac i think its up to you to figure that out :D. The aacskeys wrapper is obsolete, there is now a library version of aacskeys, check out the last page of the aacskeys sticky.

To use the library, just copy it into the directory with the DumpHD jar file, DumpHD will detect it and use it automatically. The library is used to decrypt the required keys off the disc. However, there is no precompiled library for mac, you have to compile it yourself. If it won't compile maybe i can fix it. I'm quite curious if it runs on mac :).

:rolleyes:

[jasonbrennan]

yep, as of right now I can't get aacskeys to compile under Leopard. I don't think us mac users have cdrom.h :P or other things! I dunno. But I'm willing to work with you if you'd like, lemme know

[KenD00]

Indeed, there is no cdrom.h. Is this the only problem? Looks like the biggest difference is to open the disc drive in the mode that it accepts the CDBs aacskeys sends, the rest seems to be the same. Maybe some endianess problems here and there. I will see what i can do, but not this year anymore ;).

:rolleyes:

[Mateo227]

Hey, I just got an XBOX HD-DVD player and I'd like to watch HD-DVD's on my old school PowerMac G5's. Since the announcement that WB is over supporting HD-DVD technology and that marks the end of the format war, I'd like to turn this player into something useful and not have to throw it away in a couple of years.

What this means is that I'd be willing to help someone figure out a way to make the player compatible with a Mac. I'm not a software engineer but I'd like to help if you've got anything that needs testing.

[nesNYC]

The MAC platform is rip for development of a product like AnyDVD HD but until that time, you're probably better off doing your ripping in windows and using AnyDVD HD by SlySoft. Beware though, the resulting files are about 20gigs per title so you'll either need lots of disk space or down-covert the movies to 720p to save space.