The crack on DVD!(Part 4)

As we know, there are two directories in a DVD: VIDEO_TS(VIDEO_PS) and AUDIO_TS(AUDIO_PS). AUDIO_TS is used for DVD Audio and contains the audio files, whereas VIDEO_TS is used to store all data for the movie. AUDIO_TS is always empty and there are 3 types of files in VIDEO_TS folder:.VOB, .IFO and .BUP. BUP files are just backup files off the IFOs. As their counterparts they are not encrypted.









































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The crack on DVD!(Part 3)

DVD-ROM: Read Only
DVD-R/DVD+R: Written Once
DVD-RAM/DVD-RW/DVD+RW:
Re-written multiple times.












Capacity differences of writable DVD formats:
















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How to play DVD/VCD/Music videos/online videos on mac using VLC!

As so many people ask for a player on mac to play DVDs, musics, videos, online videos, i would like to introduce a powerful free player named VLC.

What's VLC and which format it supports?

Below is the step by step guide about how to process VLC on mac!

Download VLC Player!

1: Install and launch VLC!



























2: Click 'File' to add media souce or drag and drop the souce to the container.










































3. What's in 'Video'.





















4. The effect of the changes on the 'Crop' in 'Video' setting.










































5. What's in 'File'.












6. What's in 'Playback'.
























7. What's in 'Audio'.











8. What's in right click on souce pop window.















9. Open DVD source.

BTW: VLC can not play the protection DVDs, using DVD Player to enjoy.

That's all!

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What's VLC!

VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats. VLC used to stand for VideoLAN Client, but that meaning is now deprecated.

It is one of the most platform-independent players available, with versions for BeOS, Syllable, BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, MorphOS and Solaris, and is widely used with over 100 million downloads for version 0.8.6.

VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries; on the Windows platform, this greatly reduces the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. Many of VLC's codecs are provided by the libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project, but it uses mainly its own muxer and demuxers. It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux by using the libdvdcss DVD decryption library.

Readable Formats

Input : UDP/RTP unicast or multicast, HTTP, FTP, MMS, RTSP, DVDs, VCD, SVCD, CD Audio, DVB (only on Linux and on Windows in development versions), Video acquisition (via V4l and DirectShow), RSS/Atom Feeds, and from files stored on your computer.

Container formats: 3GP, ASF, AVI, FLV, MKV, Musical Instrument Digital Interface (.mid/.midi), QuickTime, MP4, Ogg, OGM, WAV, MPEG-2 (ES, PS, TS, PVA, MP3), AIFF, Raw audio, Raw DV, MXF, VOB.

Video formats: Cinepak, Dirac, DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HuffYUV, Indeo 3, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, Sorenson (thus enabling direct playback of the modified Sorenson H.263 encoded videos downloaded from YouTube), Theora, VC-1, VP5, VP6, WMV.

Subtitles: DVD, SVCD, DVB, OGM, SubStation Alpha, SubRip, Advanced SubStation Alpha, MPEG-4 Timed Text, Text file, Vobsub, MPL2, Teletext.

Audio formats: AAC, AC3, ALAC, AMR, DTS, DV Audio, XM, FLAC, MACE, MP3, PLS (file format), QDM2/QDMC, RealAudio, Speex, Screamtracker 3/S3M, TTA, Vorbis, WavPack, WMA.

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