Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:03 am Posts: 24177 Location: Australia
so i just bought a dvd of the movie made by a certain ex vice president, but since this guy invented the internet, he's cleverly put copy protection on it (i think. i can't test it at work bc no dvd player). how do i get around this?
_________________ Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear, Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer. The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:03 am Posts: 24177 Location: Australia
conoalias wrote:
cloneCD/DVD
cheers, i'll try that, even though anydvd never did work for me
_________________ Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear, Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer. The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.
Joined: Thu Jul 07, 2005 7:02 pm Posts: 545 Location: just past the bar...
use anydvd to get around mr. gore's fancy-pants protection, then use nero to burn the disc (assuming you have a dl-burner and are using dl discs.... i haven't figured out how to split a dl disc with nero yet) - otherwise, i've heard that apollo dvd plus anydvd works well with single-layer burners to split a dl disc between 2 singles and avoid any quality loss.
i would avoid using anydvd for anything other than getting around protection issues - but it seems to work really well for that sole purpose.
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Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:03 am Posts: 24177 Location: Australia
this is so much more difficult than i'd anticipated.
_________________ Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear, Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer. The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.
_________________ Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear, Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer. The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:03 am Posts: 24177 Location: Australia
So do i need this 'dvd decrypter' program as well?
_________________ Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear, Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer. The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.
Joined: Thu Jul 07, 2005 7:02 pm Posts: 545 Location: just past the bar...
punkdavid wrote:
I'm quite interested in this idea of splitting a DL DVD onto two SL DVDs with no quality loss. Please, tell me more.
Apollo DVD copy is able to split a DL disc (or DVD-9) into 2 SL discs (or DVD-5) without losing any quality and while preserving all the menus and special features. Use it with slysoft's anydvd to get around copy protection (if, ahem, you're into that kind of thing...) - It basically detects the layer switch and breaks the copying process at that point, prompts you to enter a blank disc, copies, then prompts for the original disc for the second round of copying.
go here for info http://www.xtodvd.com/dvd_copy.htm As a caveat, I haven't used this myself since I have a DL burner and use Nero + anydvd for my copying needs, but I used to use a similar program by 3-2-1 Software called DvdXCopy Gold (which was very solid and consistently performed well on my former laptop). After a heafty lawsuit shut 3-2-1 down, it's hard to come by the actual xcopy program anymore (some shitty newer versions are floating around, but they either force you to chose compression or DL copy and seem to be very unstable). I gave a friend of mine the Apollo + anydvd combo and he's been burning like crazy without any errors, so I have at least an indirect voucher that it works. Both programs were floating around on oink or demonoid a few months ago...
I hope that makes some sense... If you have any more questions, send me a pm
_________________ never trust a man in a blue trench coat
never drive a car when you're dead
So do i need this 'dvd decrypter' program as well?
Yep. You'll need DVD Decrypter, FixVTS (unless you use the RipIt4Me installer, which includes FixVTS), and probably DVD Shrink, too. They're all freeware and the best at what they do.
RipIt4Me handles cracking the copy protection and imports the correct settings into DVD Decrypter for ripping and FixVTS for cleanup/compliance. You then have the option of automatically opening the finished rip in DVD Shrink, where you can remove unwanted audio streams or subtitles, apply extra compression to menus & bonus features, and output an image that you can then burn to a single layer DVD.
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:03 am Posts: 24177 Location: Australia
thanks very much, downloading those now.
_________________ Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear, Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer. The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.
I'm sure all that sounds much more complicated than it actually is. Once you've got everything installed and you give RipIt4Me the paths to the other programs, the only things you'll really have to interact directly with will be RI4M & Shrink (or whatever other shrinking or reauthoring prog you decide to use), and they're both pretty user-friendly, I think.
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:03 am Posts: 24177 Location: Australia
so this worked out perfectly for me, thanks matt00dak!
_________________ Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear, Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer. The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.
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