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View Full Version : Is Cinavia a thing in the AC3 tracks of DVDs?


kurkosdr
17th November 2025, 18:40
As the title says.

As we all know, Cinavia is already a thing in the DTS tracks of DVDs to prevent people from remuxing them to a Blu-ray. However, has anyone heard of Cinavia in the AC3 (Dolby Digital) tracks of a DVD?

Video Dude
21st November 2025, 19:34
Cinavia was independent of the codec since the protection was in the waveform.

DVDs that have a AACS folder have Cinavia. But the actual number of DVDs that had Cinavia was small compared to the number of protected Blu-ray titles.

Cinavia is basically dead. It hasn't been released on a disc since 2018. Of course if you have an older disc, that will still be protected.

microchip8
23rd November 2025, 16:32
Also, except for hardware Blu-ray players and similar devices, no one supports Cinavia any more. Most, if not all streamers, like Apple TV, Amazon Fire, Zidoo, etc do not support Cinavia restrictions so it gets ignored