From: Gary Britt 

Thought of that.  Tried it.  It didn't work.  The DVD was encoded with some
crap that wouldn't decode if the DVD was being played on a PC by anything
other than *their* DVD player.  Apparently it was coded in such a way as to
determine if the DVD was being played by a player (not a PC) and work with
a player but not on a PC (unless being played by *their* player).

Gary

John Beckett wrote:
> Gary Britt  wrote in message
> news::
>> We had a DVD recently that would play fine in a DVD player, but if you put
>> it in a PC DVD player it would want to install some BS DVD player.  If you
>> are sane and don't allow the DVD Player to be installed, then the DVD
>> wouldn't play on the PC.
>
> I am speaking from the stone age here, and am merely curious.
>
> I wonder if what you saw was an auto-start program that SAID it wouldn't
> play the DVD unless you installed some crap.
>
> That is, what happens if you just run your PC DVD software and point it to
> the DVD? Would it play, or is the DVD somehow encoded so it fails with PC
> software (but not a DVD player)?
>
> John
>

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