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!

 

[Paul]

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!

http://www.amazon.com/stranger-than...coding=UTF8&asin=B000A3XRSO&store=electronics

"On these new movies Sony is using ARccOS AND Garbage-filled IFO's, 0MB Cells,
multiple phony main feature, and RipGuard copy protections all in one DVD.
This is what constitues a very poorly mastered DVD and why it wont play in
our DVD players!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DVDs_Protected_by_ARccoS
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070418-sony-to-replace-incompatible-dvds.html

I bet if you enter RipGuard or ARccOS in a search engine, there'll be some
suggestions as to what to do.

Just a guess,
Paul

 

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