I'm a newbie to this site and have also been trying to get past this new CRC protection. I'm working on a backup of The Forgotten and have the newest version of DVD Decrypter as well as DVD Shrink. I am able to rip to HD with DVDD after it has inserted dummy sectors, but when I try to open those HD files with DVD Shrink I get an error that says (and I'm paraphrasing here as I'm not at my home comp right now) "Unable to open VTS_03_1.VOB. Invalid File content".
So... to clarify - I have to create an ISO disk image using DVD Decrypter and then open the ISO image with DVD Shrink? It won't work if I just back up to regular files on the HD?
Here is an alternate way to backup Forgotten: Ok, here it is straight! I was able to finally backup "The Forgotten" and "The Grudge" after many hours of experimenting with different software. These are the programs that worked for me and if you don't have them then you need to download these programs or experiment with programs that you already have. 1) DVDXcopy Platinum RF (because of browser function). 2) DVD43 Version 2?. 3) Patin-Couffin. 4) AnyDVD v.4.5.7.1. 5) DVD Decrypter v. 3.5.2.0.
DVD43 and AnyDVD runs in the background of your computer so you don't have to start these programs after you boot up to your desktop. Note: DVD43 needs patin couffin to be installed for it to work. Also, Platinum RF kept giving me CSS errors with the AnyDVD software by itself so I had to combine it with DVD43. Use DVDdecrypter to rip the movie to your hard drive. After the movie is stored on your hard drive run DVDXcopy RF. Use the ADVANCE button and then BROWSE to the decrypted file. Then select all the tiltles, play with compression, and then burn the movie.
Being one of the happy half thats having no trouble copying any of the latest copys with decrypt/shrink or with anydvd/shrink I am wondering what it is thats causeing so much trouble. I have the same programs running on two computers and the work the same way at about the same time. Assuming these people having trouble copying these movies have dma, enough space, defraged hd etc. I wondering what makes the difference. just pondering.
The first backup of this movie i made wasn't acceptable because the begining of the movie had a huge blank spot in it. That was after i ripped it with DVD Decrypter. I didn't want to reauthor it since i like the menus,extras, etc. So i used AnyDVD and VOB Blanker to rip the DVD to my hard drive. Then i shrunk the menu with DVD Shrink and encoded the rest with DVD Rebuilder\CCE. The result was a perfectly normal backup without the blank space at the begining. So if you want the menus,etc. and you're having that problem with your backup i hope this helps.
