Copy protection for DVD video

Copy Protection for DVD Video

The prospect of consumer digital versatile disk (DVD) recorders highlights the challenge of protecting copyrighted video content from piracy. We describe the copy protection system currently under consideration for DVD. The copy protection system broadly tries to prevent illicit copies from being made from either the analog or digital I/O channels of DVD recorders. An analog copy protection sys...

CD/DVD Copy Protection

DVD-Video: Multimedia for the Masses

whom you ask—is the next generation of optical disc storage technology. It's essentially a bigger, faster compact disc that can hold video as well as audio and computer data. DVD aims to encompass home entertainment, computers, and business information with a single digital format, eventually replacing audio CD, videotape, laser disc, CD-ROM, and perhaps even video game cartridges. DVD has wide...

Audio-Assisted Video Browsing for DVD Recorders

We present an audio-assisted video browsing system for a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) enhanced DVD recorder. We focus on our sports highlights extraction based on audio classification. We have systematically established that sports highlights are indicated by the presence of audience reaction such as cheering, applause and the commentatorś excited speech. That enables us to develop a common highlights...

Overview of Four DVD Copy Protection Methods, With Emphasis on Digital Watermarking

Efforts to fight piracy have led to the conception of numerous methods that make difficult the duplication of copyrighted DVDs. The most promising of these methods will be discussed here. Complete copy protection regulation involves encrypting and safeguarding the physical data on the disc, as well as the analysis of communication between multiple independent devices (often via high-speed bus) ...