Hi,
When my daughter tries playing DVDs she gets a piracy protect violation.
These are perfectly legal, commercial DVDs. How do we get rid of this?
She is using PCFriendly DVD and an IOMagic drive. Also, are there
some privacy issues with PCFriendly DVD?
Thanks,
Gary
It may be that you're playing in the wrong region, but that usually
doesn't accuse you of being a pirate, only that your movie was meant
for such and such region and asks you to change the region. Of
course, I've never gotten to the point where the change counter has
gotten to zero, so maybe this is what happens then...
Another possibility is that you're using the wrong disc. PCFriendly
is the player that's supplied on many commercial DVD movies as a
convenience feature. I don't know if there's a stand-alone version of
it out there, but if you're using the version that's supplied with
movies, that version is sometimes locked to the movie it came with.
I guess the assumption is that you'd install it, watch the movie, and
re-install it again for the next movie. Not terribly friendly nor
convenient. If this is what's happening, install a real DVD decoder
program like PowerDVD or WinDVD, and avoid using PCFriendly. You'll
get better image quality and sound quality. The retail boxed versions
are usually $60-80 Canadian, but recent versions are often bundled
with video cards and DVD drives and occasionally sound cards, so maybe
you already have a copy someplace.
