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Arccos, puppetlock, and bad sector encryption have all popped up over the past year. Movies like Grudge, The Bourne Sepremacy, XXX, Little Black Book, and Resident Evil were just some of the movies Shrink can't do alone. It has always been pointed out to use DVD Decrypter when Shrink failed to break the encryption on a DVD. So using DVD Decrypter is old news, even before Shrink was orphaned. Shrink though can decrypt it's own DVDs in a lot of cases. What some don't realize is that Shrink will rip a DVD to the HD fullsize minus the encryption. You just set it to burn to the HD and set the compression at No Compression. That is using Shrink to rip in the same manner as Decrypter. With files below the target size of the media, transcoders aren't needed, so DVD Decrypter can do the entire recording process in that situation.
DVD is a better ripper than Shrink because it can break more difficult encryption systems and is more up to date. Shrink is a transcoder, it fits the DVD to the recording media. DVD Decrypter doesn't do that. DVD Decrypter will burn in ISO write mode and is one of the supported burners in the Shrink app. Shrink doesn't burn. Backing up a DVD consists of 3 basic steps: rip (decrypt), transcode (shrink), and burn (record). Neither Decrypter nor Shrink does all 3. The one step they have in common, decryption, DVD Decrypter is superior.
If a one setup app is to your preference, like Shrink (though it uses an external burner), then add AnyDVD. AnyDVD is a driver type decryption tool that runs in the background. The recording software sees the encrypted DVD as no longer having the encryption. Shrink, or any other recording app, will transcode and if set up to burn, do so. DVDCopy3 is faster and better than Shrink. It transcodes and burns from the same app and can use AnyDVD for decryption.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 10. August 2005 @ 02:01
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