[Jeff R 1]

XBMC plays all my DVD's (or at least the ones I tried so far) with out AnyDVD HD running in the back ground to remove any encryption.
Why are the DVD's playing all on there own on an unlicensed player such as XBMC ?
Or does the industry even bother DVD's any more as they're an older format ?
I have somebody over at SlySoft telling me I shouldn't be able to play DVD's on an unlicensed player with out some sort of decryption running in the back ground.

The Blu-ray's won't play unless AnyDVD HD removes the AACS code.

Great job too on Gotham, I haven't been here for a long time and I found that this new version plays the discs with out having to point it at the correct play list _ so far it works quite well.

[teeedubb]

DVD encryption was cracked along time ago, and is built into xbmc.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libdvdcss
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS

I've read that there is something similar available for BD but hasn't been released for fear of legal threats (see 2nd link for a example.)

[Ned Scott]

XBMC has internal code to break encryption on DVDs, but not for blurays. It seems the industry doesn't care about DVD playback, although they did recently go after the DVDfab guys.

[Jeff R 1]

XBMC has internal code to break encryption on DVDs, but not for blurays. It seems the industry doesn't care about DVD playback, although they did recently go after the DVDfab guys.

Yah, I know all about DVDFab, thanks...
And thanks for the replies guys, that also explains why the DVD's didn't need decrypting from an outside source. It even played a region 2 from the UK with no problems.

If the ultrahigh definition ever takes hold, maybe Blu-ray or 1080p if you like, will go the way side like DVD did.

[jjd-uk]

You can use some library files from a MakeMKV install to decrpyt Blu-Ray's, see http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=189402

I've not personally tried this yet though.

[natethomas]

I believe the general consensus, way back when it was decided to leave the decryption in, was that since XBMC was only using decryption for playback rather than storage, groups were more likely to look the other way. Given that it's been like 10 years now, that decision was probably fairly accurate.