I wasn't talking about the restrictions forcing you to watch FBI and other warnings, but simply pressing PLAY on the menu.

I have about 200 DVDs and my last physical DVD player was probably purchased in 2003 or 2004. I haven't watched DVDs regularly since about 2005/6. Maybe things have changed on newer discs and/or newer players. Which would be a good thing.

At the moment I don't even have a DVD player hooked up and don't have any plans to change that. Nor add a BluRay player as an alternative. Everything I play back comes off my NAS. wink

Quote:
I wonder if there is a universal hack that could be applied that would let a piece of DVD playing app or player firmware do that: Skip straight to the feature, on every DVD, before even trying to put up a menu or an ad. That would be awesome.


I wouldn't think universal hack at the player level would be possible, but it'd certainly be possible with a hack specific to any one product. That product would be in violation of their licenses of course. smile Discs can also be authored or re-authored not to have those restrictions as well as jump directly to the main feature. I have a few discs that go to the main feature directly and only go to the menu if you press the Menu button.

DVDShrink and I'm sure a ton of other programs can do the re-authoring of existing discs (to a new disc), including of course stripping region coding.
_________________________
Bruno
Twisted Melon : Fine Mac OS Software