How does a standalone player decrypt? Or does it?

[surreal120]

Just curious about something: we all have to decrypt our movies using something like DVD Decrypter or Smart Ripper in order for them to play back on a standalone player. But how does a standalone player know what to do? Does it also decrypt a DVD somehow? Is a DVD full of data that has actually been encrypted (with a key)?

Basically, what's going on in this process?

[molman2003]

Go to the main page www.doom9.org and select Guides from the left-hand menu.

Everything is there for you from newbie ripping to advanced authoring.

Steve

[oddyseus]

Your answer is yes to both questions.

Any settop player has a key that uses to decrypt the disk, that was decrypted using another key.

Molman's suggestion to read the guides will disclose much more information about the subject

[surreal120]

Molman, I appreciate your reply but I don't think you really understood my question. I did not ask about "everything from newbie ripping to advanced authoring". The guides do tell you how to rip a DVD, but not how the process works inside a real standalone DVD player. The guide that does explain this is on Jim Taylor's site (which is in fact linked from doom9, so in that sense you're right).

Anyway, it's not a big deal or anything, but your post came off as a bit condescending and I'm not sure if you really meant it to be. Just somthing worth mentioning for the future...

[molman2003]

Your right surreal, didn't read properly.
Didn't mean to sound condescending.

Just trying to help.

[surreal120]

I know, that's why I thought I would just point it out for the future. I definitely appreciate your trying to help!

BTW, I wrote back about that other menu/reauthoring question you had. Good luck with that, that would be damn cool if it works (especially without by ghetto bootlegging idea).