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Driver, which descrambles DVD-Movies automatically in the background.

AnyDVD is capable of removing unwanted movie features, including subtitles and prohibition messages such as copyright and FBI warnings. It also allows you to launch an external application whenever you insert or remove a disc, or prevent 'PC-friendly' software from automatically launching when you insert a video DVD.

Decryption is not all that AnyDVD offers. You can control the drive speed of your DVD drive, allowing you to reduce the noise level when watching movies on your PC. You can even adjust the display frequency of your monitor for both NTSC and PAL displays.

But AnyDVD doesn't just stop at DVDs. It also decrypts protected audio CDs to allow you to copy them.

Features:

* Works automatically in the background
* Removes encryption (CSS) and region code (RPC) from DVDs
* Removes analogue copy protection (Macrovision)
* Removes features such as forced subtitles and warnings
* Decrypts without the need to save the data onto your hard-disk
* Decrypts 'on the fly'
* Prevents automatic launching of 'PC-friendly' software on video DVDs
* Allows adjustment of your monitor refresh rate for both NTSC and PAL monitors
* Allows execution of external programs on disc insertion and removal
* Allows speed control of your DVD drives
* Compatible with all DVD media
* Works with all DVD-drives, regardless of region code
* Works with all DVD copying, such as CloneDVD, and all DVD player software
* Works transparently for the operating system: DVDs can be shared over the network and copied with the command prompt or with Windows Explorer, etc.
* Proven to be stable and fast and does not require an ASPI driver
* Features AnyCDDA: play, copy and rip protected audio CDs

System Requirements

* IBM-compatible PC with a minimum 500 MHz Pentium-class microprocessor and 64 MB RAM
* Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP/XP64/VISTA/VISTA64
* 2 MB hard-disk space

What's New:

6.5.9.5 2009 10 18
- New: Improved wakeup from standby, autoplay is no longer triggered in
Windows Media Center, ArcSoft TMT, PowerDVD and other programs if a disc
is in the drive and the system wakes up from standby
- New: Added icon for Windows program uninstall
- New: Avoid "This program might not have (un)installed correctly"
message under Windows 7
- New: Improved compatibiliy with modems or USB sticks, which have a CD
partition
- New (HD DVD & Blu-ray): Added support for AACS v16
- New (HD DVD & Blu-ray): Updated decryption keys
- New (Blu-ray): Improved compatibility with certain disc / player combinations,
when Region Code or BDLive removal is activated,
e.g. "Dollhouse" (US) and ArcSoft TMT
- New (Blu-ray): Compatibility improvement with some titles, e.g.
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Australia)
- New (Blu-ray): Improved disabling of BD-Live
- New (Blu-ray): Added support for new BD+ protections
- New (DVD): Added support for new protections
- Fix: AnyDVD could hang in very rare situations
- Fix (DVD): Playback time of program chains with multi angle
- Fix (DVD): Playback time of program chains with old scanner
- Some minor fixes and improvements
- Updated languages