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Re: did not know that

some russian guy wrote a hack to trick WinDVD into decrypting the AOB files and write them out in unencrypted form on the hard disk.

Separately, another hack was then written (by the same person) to allow WinDVD to read these unencrypted files, apply MLP decoding, and then write out raw PCM.

As a result, you get 2ch and 6ch PCM files on your hard disk which you can play to your hearts content. You can recompress them if you like using WMA or FLAC or WavPack or Monkey's Audio or whatever.

However, you can't burn your own DVD-A from them because the Verrance watermarking will cause your player to mute the output.

PS - as a result of the above hack, the current WinDVD player no longer supports DVD-Audio playback. :-( But the hack would still work on older versions.


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