MOTM

I offer immediate relief:

Sorry to sound like a broken record, but!

go to www.rrich.com

and order his 7 HOUR DVD called 'Somnium'. This is actualy a 'normal' DVD
with no video. All the
bits are audio! Plays for 7 straight hours. Nice, quiet music.

He was going to release it as a true DVD-A disc, but the very problems you
describe prevented that.

BTW: there is a Perl script, only 7 lines of code, that hacks DVD video copy
protection in this month's Wired magazine.
Reminds me of Lotus spending 3 million dollars in 1980 to 'copy protect'
Lotus 1-2-3 by writing on a floppy track 41
(floppies normally write on tracks 0 to 39). A sharped-eyed
engineer/customer wondered why his floopy drive seeked past the servo stop
and got out the logic analyzer. Attaching it to the NEC 765 FD IC, he
figured out in 10 minutes
what it was doing and posted it to Usenet. Lotus' copy protection was hacked
as a simple TSR in DOS mimiced the
765. Elapsed time from giant NYC press conference, full-page ads in Wall
Street Journal, etc to hack: 2 days!.
The day the hack was posted, Mitch Kapor fired his entire 66-man engineering
department en masse.

Paul S.