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The disc doesn't have AACS, but it does have structural protection and possibly playlist obfuscation.

I've attached my log.
 

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revgen said:
The disc doesn't have AACS, but it does have structural protection and possibly playlist obfuscation.

I've attached my log.
Click to expand...

So.... you must have a reason for posting this, I thought to myself, hence my question: is there a problem?
 
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear.

The 00001.mpls playlist gives me this error in MKVToolnix.

Code: 
--- Errors emitted by job 'Multiplexing to file "bittertea.mkv" in directory "D:\"' started on 2017-09-13 11:14:29 ---
The track number 1 from the file 'D:\BITTER_TEA_OF_GENERAL_YEN\BDMV\PLAYLIST\..\STREAM\26507.m2ts' cannot be appended to the track number 1 from the file 'D:\BITTER_TEA_OF_GENERAL_YEN\BDMV\PLAYLIST\..\STREAM\24464.m2ts'. The number of channels of the two audio tracks is different: 0 and 2

I suspect some kind of playlist obfuscation or structural protection is involved. The disc plays fine in my blu-ray player.
 
error message says no such thing

STREAM\26507.m2ts' cannot be appended to the track number 1 from the file 'D:\BITTER_TEA_OF_GENERAL_YEN\BDMV\PLAYLIST\..\STREAM\24464.m2ts'. The number of channels of the two audio tracks is different: 0 and 2

different audio channel layout
 
Doubt it, anydvd doesn't convert. Possibly bad disc mkvtoolnix issue. Pete will have to confirm
 
I solved the problem with eac3to. Apparently the audio track has something called "dirty PES bytes". I don't know what that is, but eac3to does and fixed it.

Thank you Ch3vr0n and Pete for your help.
 
revgen said:
I solved the problem with eac3to. Apparently the audio track has something called "dirty PES bytes". I don't know what that is, but eac3to does and fixed it.
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That is simply messy authoring.
Not a protection issue - these disc on demand discs are authored using a crappy muxing software (an unofficial one, no BD license), they all are hardly Blu-ray compliant.
We've seen similar problems on other DOD discs, too.
"dirty PES bytes" most likely just means: there's bullshit in one or more PES packets.

AnyDVD handles the protection fine, but I wouldn't recommend buying DOD discs at this time. AnyDVD can't fix those broken streams, that's not its area.
 
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