DVD Decrypter & Ripit4me don't cut it

[OhioGuy]

For the past year or more, I've used Ripit4me in conjunction with the
venerable DVD Decrypter to back up all of my DVD's to the hard drive. Then
I compressed them to h.264 mpeg4 using Nero, making them viewable anywhere
on my network.

Yesterday I finally encountered my first DVD that just won't back up
properly - Sony's latest James Bond flick, Casino Royale.

During the backup process, it finds an unusually high number of IFO
files - somewhere around 100, rather than the normal dozen or less.

Then it starts to decrypt, and instead of the normal 10 to 14 minutes, the
drive appears to be a bit noisy, and shows a time of between 24 and 200
hours. Ripping speed is initially 4x, but drops to .2x, and eventually
hovers between that and zero.

I thought perhaps the drive was going bad, but then I tested it with
another movie, and it worked fine.

Anyone else have suggestions on a new program I could use in order to keep
watching my movie collection on my PC, without having to shuffle my DVD's
around? One of the computers doesn't even HAVE a DVD drive, so obviously
this is frustrating.

For watching the resulting files, I use VLC Media Player, but if I can't
get the DVD to mpeg4, I'm stuck.

Help!

 

[Ed Medlin]

For the past year or more, I've used Ripit4me in conjunction with the
venerable DVD Decrypter to back up all of my DVD's to the hard drive.
Then I compressed them to h.264 mpeg4 using Nero, making them viewable
anywhere on my network.

Yesterday I finally encountered my first DVD that just won't back up
properly - Sony's latest James Bond flick, Casino Royale.

During the backup process, it finds an unusually high number of IFO
files - somewhere around 100, rather than the normal dozen or less.

Then it starts to decrypt, and instead of the normal 10 to 14 minutes,
the drive appears to be a bit noisy, and shows a time of between 24 and
200 hours. Ripping speed is initially 4x, but drops to .2x, and
eventually hovers between that and zero.

I thought perhaps the drive was going bad, but then I tested it with
another movie, and it worked fine.

Anyone else have suggestions on a new program I could use in order to
keep watching my movie collection on my PC, without having to shuffle my
DVD's around? One of the computers doesn't even HAVE a DVD drive, so
obviously this is frustrating.

For watching the resulting files, I use VLC Media Player, but if I can't
get the DVD to mpeg4, I'm stuck.

Help!

DVD Fab (Gold or Platinum) Decryptor works on everything for me.



Ed

 

[UncleJack]

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[Me]

For the past year or more, I've used Ripit4me in conjunction with the
venerable DVD Decrypter to back up all of my DVD's to the hard drive.
Then I compressed them to h.264 mpeg4 using Nero, making them viewable
anywhere on my network.

Yesterday I finally encountered my first DVD that just won't back up
properly - Sony's latest James Bond flick, Casino Royale.

During the backup process, it finds an unusually high number of IFO
files - somewhere around 100, rather than the normal dozen or less.

Then it starts to decrypt, and instead of the normal 10 to 14 minutes,
the drive appears to be a bit noisy, and shows a time of between 24 and
200 hours. Ripping speed is initially 4x, but drops to .2x, and
eventually hovers between that and zero.

I thought perhaps the drive was going bad, but then I tested it with
another movie, and it worked fine.

Anyone else have suggestions on a new program I could use in order to
keep watching my movie collection on my PC, without having to shuffle my
DVD's around? One of the computers doesn't even HAVE a DVD drive, so
obviously this is frustrating.

For watching the resulting files, I use VLC Media Player, but if I can't
get the DVD to mpeg4, I'm stuck.

Help!

cucusoft............