REQ: Vid.exe

[Revgen]

This link no longer works.

http://www.ingenieria-inversa.cl/files/vid.rar

Can anybody upload theirs to rapidshare or another file server?

I'd appreciate it. :thanks:

[setarip_old]

Hi!

Based on a simple Googlesearch, there appear to be several different programs named "VID.EXE".

What does the one you're looking for do?

[Revgen]

^It reads the volume id on patched X-box HD-DVD drives without having to authenticate the disc. It also works on some modified blu-ray drives. It's a CLI program. should be less than 1mb in size.

[880]

It's not the same program that you're looking for, but AACSKeys will read the Volume ID on patched drives. And if you need to read it from unpatched drives, use DumpVID.

[Revgen]

^I'm using a hacked LG Blu-Ray drive. That program doesn't seem to work with the Xbox routine. Drive is an LG ggw-h20L. I'm trying to decrypt an HD-DVD using this method. I'll try a Blu-Ray tomorrow and see if that does it.

[Revgen]

Thanks to greath for the link.

http://rapidshare.com/files/259803441/vid.exe

vid.exe works. Gets the volume id just fine. AACSkeys doesn't. My guess is that AACSkeys is looking for the xbox drive instead of my LG blu-ray hybrid drive that I have.

I added an attachment so people can still get it if the link expires.

[KenD00]

vid.exe implements the X-Box hack only, nothing more. It's a side effect of the implementation that it does work with the LG drive too. The X-Box hack basically patches the drive on-the-fly, then reads the VID unauthentiated (like its done with the LG hack) and then reverts the patch.

The whole functionality of vid.exe is implemented in aacskeys too, but in contrast to it aacskeys does check for error codes and detects if the on-the-fly patch fails. But in addition aacskeys supports the "correct" way to use the LG patch, it acquires an AGID, then reads the VID unauthenticated and releases the AGID again. This has the effect that the VID gets read faster because without acquiring an AGID the LG drive gets an internal error and that delays the retrieval of the VID.

I myself have a GGW-H20L drive and aacskeys works just fine with it.

:rolleyes:

[Revgen]

Whenever I try using the aacskeys -x d command, it always gives me this error. I have the same drive.

Error reading XBOX VID.


ERROR: READVIDXBOX: SK: 0x5, ASC: 0x20, ASCQ: 0x00, errnr: -2

This is with an HD-DVD. I'll try a blu-ray disc later today.

[KenD00]

Well, of course it gives you this error because the X-Box hack does ONLY work with an X-Box drive (and the Toshiba SD-H802A drive which is internally the same).

To use the "LG patch way" you need to use the AACSBYPASS authentication method. The command line would look like this

aacskeys -b d

But you don't need to specify the authentication method at all because aacskeys chooses the proper one automatically, so you can just type

aacskeys d

If you want to know which method it has chosen run it in verbose mode

aacskeys -v d


:rolleyes:

[Revgen]

^ Okay, I understand it now. I didn't know that AACSBYPASS was what the LG drive used.

I think there was a readme file that came with it, but I don't know where it is right now. I'll just redownload it again.