Ok, so every time I'm looking at comments for A/V info I always see "dont work on ps3" and maybe this will help remove some of those in the future.

One fix (I haven't done recently because laptop has hdmi out) is

1. When copying media into usb CHANGE the name to something different i.e. mystiffnu or whatever
same if onto dvd.

2. Disconnect ethernet cable and disable internet connetion in ps3 settings

3. Reset PS3, then load file or dvd.

Let me know if this still works or you found a simpler way.

Also, I'm sure this is in the right place and wanted a lot of people to see it.
If it's in the wrong spot, let me know and I'll move it

Changing the codecs won't work at all.
I've tried it and it still has the cinavia.
lord death what program is it?
The only work around i see is ps3 media server, but it never streams perfectly its always lagging.

I didn't think cinavia involved a signal/watermark?? I knew it was with the audio, but I still think it syncs over the net. If it is a watermark/signal wouldn't it recognize
it almost instantly? I remember cinavia popping up after a few minutes...

Yeah, you are right. It is a watermark
From wiki(why didn't I check it first?facepalm)

The signal survives temporal masking and sub-band coding by operating on the fundamental frequency and its subharmonic overtones, and by dealigning the phase relationship between the strongest signal and its subharmonics. Each phase discontinuity introduced by the encoder will result in a corresponding pulse of wideband white noise, so a further range of additional distortions are introduced as a noise mitigation strategy to compensate. The desired hidden digital data signal is combined in the distortion step using a pre-determined pseudorandom binary sequence for audio frame synchronization and large amounts of forward error correction for the hidden data to be embedded. The watermark is only embedded when certain signal-to-noise ratio thresholds are met and is not available as a continuous signal—the signal must be monitored for a period of time before the embedded data can be detected and recovered. Extraction of the hidden signal is not exact but is based on recovering the convolutional codes through statistical cross-correlation.


I see 2 possible ways to still exploit it...It's not a continuous signal and it's only applied at certain points...


Wonder what those are?

It's wrong to say that there isn't any workaround:

If you have custom firmware, there's a tool to disable it for good (if you have cfw v3.41 or v3.55 pm me for the link)

If you don't then the only current known methods are media servers; these only work because it reads the media player to be on a computer and (currently) cinavia can't block playback from a computer as they don't use blu-ray technology. If anything, I'd connect an ethernet cable for high speed streaming.

I hear it might brick the ps3 since I mainly use my ps3 for online gaming(BF3) and the next update might mess it up no?

did not say changing anything will fix a cinavia movie file, nothing can be done without the original source material (blu ray or dvd), with the original material you can create a one to one copy.for blu ray to blu ray copy- use the newer dvd fab. for a dvd copy use almost anything with anydvd to decode.a blu rip or dvd rip of cinavia disks will still leave them unplayable on a ps3. for more info on cianvia --http://www.dvdfab.com/cinavia.htm

sure you can try flashing the firmware , but what then ?when a new blu ray asks for an update?recommend that if you want to make your ps3 no longer able for online or newer games and movies , to have a pro who has done the flashing of the firmware before. if you do it yourself you could end up with a 10 pound paperweight.

Gotta be more optimistic brother.. I'm working on something right now, some ideas that maybe hopefully might crack it. Take a look
https://kat.ph/community/show/37528/#10310581

slysoft was supposed to be looking into a fix , but not sure if they did , cinavia has been around for almost 2 yrs. so far i deal with it by turning on the xbox 360 , it has no such protection.

An update was released 11 days ago which re-activates the usage of psn (only those currently on cfw v3.55) and installs a version spoofer (4.11) therefore you avoid updating it.