Comment How Divx Players can be Hacked (Score 1) 55
From http://www.thedigitalbits.com/rumormill.html
(The actual command sequence for two players players follows the quoted text)
12/29/98
OK, here's what appears to be the skinny on that Divx "player hack" everyone's been talking about recently. There is a way to "decommission" a Divx player, effectively wiping its memory clean of billing and account information. This can likely be done on all Divx players, and instructions for doing so on the RCA RC-52303 and Zenith Inteq 2100 have been posted widely around the Net (check this Anti-Divx site for the instructions, under the section appropriately labeled "Little Black Boxes"). So great, right? A Divx-killer? Not exactly.
Here's the problem: while decommissioning your player will prevent the billing information (for say, several movies you just watched) from being sent to the Divx host computer, it also kills your billing account registration data. And your player requires the registration data in order to function. So you'll have to keep registering your player over and over again. Which will likely tip Divx off to what you're doing. So while it may work once or twice, you might regret doing it in the end, especially if Divx decides to start charging a penalty fee for repeated re-registration.
All in all, I certainly can't recommend this procedure. Then again, if you're willing to take the risk, be sure to let me know what happens. As they say, inquiring minds want to know...! ;-)
Command Sequences:
Decommissioning a Zenith DIVX player: To decommission a Zenith DIVX player: **Make sure there is no disc in the machine then power the machine on and then off--- while the machine is off press the following keys in the exact order (STOP-STOP-REVERSE-STOP-FORWARD-FORWARD-REVERSE)** The process takes about two minutes. The letters DEC should flash on the screen and your player is decommissioned.
Decommissioning a RCA DIVX player: To decommission a RCA DIVX player. **Make sure there is no disc in the machine then power the machine on and then off--- while the machine is off press the following keys in the exact order while holding down the POWER key at the same time.
(STOP-STOP-FOWARD-FOWARD)** The process takes a minute or so. The letters DEC should appear on the screen and your player is decommissioned.
(The actual command sequence for two players players follows the quoted text)
12/29/98
OK, here's what appears to be the skinny on that Divx "player hack" everyone's been talking about recently. There is a way to "decommission" a Divx player, effectively wiping its memory clean of billing and account information. This can likely be done on all Divx players, and instructions for doing so on the RCA RC-52303 and Zenith Inteq 2100 have been posted widely around the Net (check this Anti-Divx site for the instructions, under the section appropriately labeled "Little Black Boxes"). So great, right? A Divx-killer? Not exactly.
Here's the problem: while decommissioning your player will prevent the billing information (for say, several movies you just watched) from being sent to the Divx host computer, it also kills your billing account registration data. And your player requires the registration data in order to function. So you'll have to keep registering your player over and over again. Which will likely tip Divx off to what you're doing. So while it may work once or twice, you might regret doing it in the end, especially if Divx decides to start charging a penalty fee for repeated re-registration.
All in all, I certainly can't recommend this procedure. Then again, if you're willing to take the risk, be sure to let me know what happens. As they say, inquiring minds want to know...!
Command Sequences:
Decommissioning a Zenith DIVX player: To decommission a Zenith DIVX player: **Make sure there is no disc in the machine then power the machine on and then off--- while the machine is off press the following keys in the exact order (STOP-STOP-REVERSE-STOP-FORWARD-FORWARD-REVERSE)*
Decommissioning a RCA DIVX player: To decommission a RCA DIVX player. **Make sure there is no disc in the machine then power the machine on and then off--- while the machine is off press the following keys in the exact order while holding down the POWER key at the same time.
(STOP-STOP-FOWARD-FOWARD)** The process takes a minute or so. The letters DEC should appear on the screen and your player is decommissioned.
