Hi on some DVD’s you can’t do things like fast-forward or skip some things like legal messages or previews. Even cheap DVD players and DVD playback programs for computers do this as far as I know.
If a DVD player did allow you to skip or fast-forward something that it isn’t meant to would the manufacturer get into big trouble? I wonder if any DVD players/software let you do this… I’d like to get it.
Hit stop twice then push the menu button.
So some group made annoying DVD rules that they allow people to bypass if they know obscure codes? I’ll try it out when I get home. I’m using a ps3. I think the square is the menu button or maybe it is stop. BTW some players are region free but I think they still have those other problems.
Actually it looks like it is stop-stop-play or stop-stop-stop-play:
I found some information about it:
It is called UOP…
(I found that doing a search based on your answer)
If there’s any trouble they’d get in, it’s a relatively recent development; VCRs didn’t have this problem.
Also, next time you’re stuck reading the anti-piracy warnings, take a closer look. It says (the US version, at least), quote “International Criminal Police Organization- INTERPOL-has expressed its concern about motion picture and sound recording policy to all of its member
national police forces. (Resolution adopted at INTERPOL General Assembly, Stockholm, Sweden, September 8, 1977)”
So, a resolution “expressing its concern” (seriously? Not even so much as a “INTERPOL says knock it off”?) made before people who can currently run for President were born, is the best and most recent thing you’ve got? This seems more likely to make people start video piracy than stop it.
I’m going to have to try that “Stop Stop Play” thing. We Netflix a lot of kid movies around the Dice household, and unskippable ads are the bane of my existance.
On my DVD player when I can’t get to the menu or FF through previews, I’ve found that it will let me use the “forward to next chapter” button to skip over. I may have to hit it half a dozen times to skip past all the previews and finally hit the main menu.
Never tried “stop stop play” - I will have to give that a shot next time.
It’s just part of the spec. It has legitimate uses, to keep you from jumping to a menu or a special feature when you didn’t want to. But of course companies are going to use it to make unskipable previews and stuff.
I get mad every time I have to sit through the annoying legalese stuff on a DVD I have bought legally.
I will also have to try the method endorsed here.
Indian DVDs are oftentimes even worse - you can’t skip over the ads no matter what.
On a computer, Slysoft AnyDVD will remove prohibited UOPs and other annoyances. It’s expensive, though. I think there’s also cheaper or free software that does the same thing, but I can’t remember the name.