Ren Hoek mailed us to inform us about an open source CD/DVD emulator. There are already a decent amount of emulators, but this one is special. This program will let you interface between a real device and will create a virtual device for it.
Using this you can apply 'filters' to the data that passes through the emulator. This means you can insert a CD/DVD and have the emulator add additional data to the data stream generated by the drive. Currently there are only 3 filters available:
DVD subtitler: This filter effectively adds a new subtitle track to a DVD, by inserting new data into the MPEG stream and updating the various navigation pointers on the fly. Since it works at the device-driver level, it's compatible with all software and hardware DVD players. It comes with a fairly sophisticated subtitle rendering engine which supports asynchronous overlapping subtitles in multiple fonts and colors, fade-in and fade-out, the full Unicode character set, vertical Japanese "sidetitles," etc.
Unrestrict DVD: This filter removes various usage restrictions from a DVD, including region lockout, APS (Macrovision), and disabled fast-forwarding, menu call, angle change, and so forth.
SCSI protocol spy: This lets you monitor the SCSI commands and data passing to and from your drive, in the tradition of such utilities as FileMon, RegMon and Spy++. It's useful for debugging, and interesting to watch if you're curious.
The software is free and open source and can be downloaded here. If you like it, you also might want to use the feature request form, so the author can start implenting new things!
For support and discussion about this software, visit our General Burning Software Forum!
Source: DVDsynth
