DVD

Digital Watermarking for DVD . . .

O ne of the most quoted applications for digital watermarking is in the context of copy-protection of digital (multi-)media. In its most basic form a watermark is used as a single bit that indicates whether or not content is copyrighted. By the nature of a watermark, this copy-protection bit is (theoretically) strongly tied to the content: it can only be removed when the content suffers serious...

CD/DVD Copy Protection

Dvd Sales and Internet Piracy

Movie studios have long believed that home video recording damages the market for movies broadcast on free television. This issue has gained renewed importance with the advent of highdefinition television, causing movie studios to argue that consumer recording of digital video will result in increased piracy and reduced DVD demand. In contrast, we find that the dominant impact of movie broadcas...

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...

Automated DVD menu authoring with pdfLATEX

dvdauthor is an excellent low-level free tool for video DVD authoring on Unix systems. However, it doesn’t provide a convenient way for drawing the menu background and buttons. We present dvdmenuauthor, a collection of scripts for automated DVD authoring with menus. dvdmenuauthor uses pdfLATEX macros for menu composition, Xpdf for menu rendering, and dvdauthor for DVD filesystem authoring.