Open source plugin might be free solution to Cinavia removal

An open-source plugin for the free Windows audio player Foobar2000 might pave the way for a solution that removes Cinavia from Blu-ray movies for free. According to Myce user Cienoway the plugin can be easily modified to remove Cinavia. The plugin is called 'Watermark Neutralizer' and has been posted to open-source hosting website Sourceforge in 2009.  Development has been ongoing for three years but stopped at the end of 2012.

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'Watermark Neutralizer' is a plugin for Foobar2000,  a free audio player for Windows  developed by a former Nullsoft (Winamp) employee.

The developer 'manisiutkin' appears to be Russian and also left his tracks on numerous audiophile websites and forums. The feedback on his posts is mainly positive and his solution appears to work well for detection and removal of audio watermarks from DVD-Audio discs for which he is often applauded.

Besides detection and removal of watermarks the plugin has more features, as the developer writes on the SourceForge page of the software, "DVD-Audio Decoder input plugin and Watermark Detector/Neutralizer DSP plugins for foobar2000. Decoder is capable of playing back DVD-Audio discs, ISO images, AOB, MLP and Dolby TrueHD files in full resolution. Dedicated plugin for DTS-HD playback."

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Reporting user Cienoway is a well known user on the Myce forums for his claims to be able to easily remove Cinavia from Blu-ray audio tracks without quality loss. Unfortunately he has not released anything that backs up his claims, however here at Myce we have reasons to believe he knows more about Cinavia than the average Joe.

So far the only way to playback backups of Cinavia protected movies is by using DVD-Ranger. Other solutions from DVDFab and Slysoft only work with most major Blu-ray software players.

Although the plugin is a proven method to remove DVD audio watermarks, there is currently no way to proof it is able to remove the Cinavia audio watermark. To achieve this, input from the community is required. We invite you to join the discussion in our forums.

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Not familiar with Cinavia? Then head over to our article that explains everything.

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