slow DVD CSS encryption on non-SSE2 CPU

[Marino]

Hello,

i looked at the slow menu loading issue with VLC player again and found out that it's only related the CSS encryption routine. For testing i opened a complex non-CSS encrypted DVD with VLC and the menu popped up within 10 seconds. A CSS encrypted DVD "Brave" (R1) took around 20 minutes to come up with the menu! Could this be related the non-SSE2 supporting CPU?! Can this be fixed?

Thanks for the support and help.

greetings

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Brave is a DVD specially engineer to block players like VLC.

[Marino]

Hello Jean,

the same behaviour VLC also shows with much older DVDs. For example Gremlins special edition (R1). Nearly the same passed time until the menu shows up.

Is there a way to try out older versions of Libdvdcss (libdvdcss-2.dll) with VLC? If so, how?

[Marino]

Hi,

the Plextor DVD Burner (RPC1)(IDE jumpered slave) can play the DVD within 10Sekonds. The LG Combo drive (RPC1)(IDE jumpered master) takes this long as described above. I flashed the fw again today to see if anything changes but still the same issue. How can i check if RAW access works properly? Is it possible that it has to do with the Combo drive?

Update: Also flashed back the original RPCII firmware and tested with a RC2 dvd. Still no change. Menu takes ages to show up.

Update 2:
Aha, it has nothing to do with the drive! I tested VLC v0.9.8a and the Gremlins R1 DVD loaded up fine and fast on the LG drive! I don't know what got changed from v 0.9.8a-to-2.05/2.06 but somehow the CSS encrypting/loading routine got screwed up on the way.