I understand from reading this forum that there are new protective codes on recent DVDs. So with the advise from here I first used DVD Fab Decrypter to rip the movie Munich to my hard drive.
Next I tried using DVD Shrink to compress the file to fit on one DVDr. For quality sake I always Analyse the movie before Encoding. The analysis worked fine but I still ran into a problem when encoding was to begin. DVD Shrink locked up and a message read DVD Shrink could not proceed protection error ocurred. Am I doing something incorrect ? Are there some options in Fab Decrypter I don't have set correctly ? I got spoiled with DVDshrink and need to find alternatives. Any help would be appreciated Thanks in advance scott
Or you can use AnyDVD in the background while you use shrink, but make sure you disable the encryption settings in shrink otherwise there could be conflicts.
If you are like me and don't want to buy the software (my apologies to anydvd fans), you also need to use VobBlanker to process the output from DVDFab Decrypter. VobBlanker will remove intentionally placed structural errors which are probably what's causing shrink to crap out. You can get it here:
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This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 23. May 2006 @ 10:00
Thanks waynekusa, as I always use AnyDVD to break the encryption of a movie I completely forget that there are very good free programes that will do the job.
I have used vobblanker only a few times but I am very impressed with it, it truley is a great programme + when you use vobblanker to edit out the parts you dont need it keeps the quality of the original movie.
Some of the new movie releases are copy protected by either sony's or microvision's encryption, that means shrink or DVD Decrypter will not be able to decrypt these movies because they're no longer updated to do so.
If you want to be able to backup these problem movies for free and are not afraid to do a little work doing so..then follow the instructions below for all movies that shrink or DVD Decrypter can't handle.
Here's how to get it done For FREE: **************************
Download and install DVDFab decrypter (make sure it's the latest version), use DVDFab to rip the video files to your HDD.
Once DVDFab decrypter is done, you'll have a VIDEO_TS folder on your hard drive containing the files it ripped. These files will need to be processed thru vobblanker to remove fake cells and correct file structure so shrink can open the files and process them correctly.
Unzip the file and run the executable, it will look a bit like this:
For input folder selection: browse to where the VIDEO_TS folder created by DVDFab decrypter is located, inside the folder, look for the VIDEO_TS.IFO file and choose it.
The path might look something like this:
c:\Movie folder\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO
Note: When importing the VIDEO_TS.IFO file, if you notice that vobblanker has marked a video title set (VTS) in the top half as skipped, click on the Proc.All button on the right to ensure all video title sets are processed.
For output folder selection: create a new folder on your desktop and call it "MOVIE", inside that folder create a new folder and call it "VIDEO_TS "(this is where you'll have vobblanker put the output files it will create)
Once the folders have been created, have the output folder selection point to the VIDEO_TS folder in the MOVIE folder.
The path for output folder might look something like this:
c:\documents and settings\johnl123\desktop\MOVIE\VIDEO_TS
Now just press the PROCESS button on the bottom and wait until it's done. Once the process is complete, there should be a new set of video files that vobblanker created in the VIDEO_TS folder that's in the MOVIE folder on your desktop.
At this point run DVDshrink and open the files, click on the "open files" tab and browse to where the VIDEO_TS folder is that's in the MOVIE folder on your desktop and choose it. Shrink will import the files now correctly with no errors, at this point you can use shrink as you normally would to create a backup. Have shrink reauthor the DVD to backup just the main movie and 5.1 eng audio channel, have shrink create an ISO image and burn it to disk using DVD Decrypter.
If this seems too much work, then the alternative is to use AnyDVD from slysoft, it really makes it easy. It comes with a 21 day free trial, if you're interested, get it here;
