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+1 for DVD Decrypter. It's been an invaluable tool in backing up my legitimately purchased collection. It sucks that we have to jump through hoops to play movies because DRM makes them unusable, when it's pretty trivial to bypass the protection they spend so much on developing in the first place.

As has repeated many times, they're only hurting the legit consumers.

Some software that I've found useful that I don't see people talking about:

Uniextract. It is very useful when you want to extract the contents of an installer without actually installing it. Have a 50MB installer for your printer drivers that comes bundled with some useless software? Run this, go into device manager, Update Driver, tell it to look in the folder.

DVD Decrypter. A free DVD decrypter. If Handbrake won't rip your DVD or it comes out all garbled, use this to copy the DVD contents onto your computer, and tell Handbrake to rip the folder/ISO.

Handbrake doesn't accept encrypted DVDs, so you need a way to extract the DVD before you can feed it into Handbrake. Makemkv will do that, as will a number of other apps (I like DVD Decrypter; though it's been dead for years it still works great on DVDs).

Use DVD Decrypter to rip and burn. DVDs are protected with CSS encryption, which must be decrypted before it can be copied.

You joke but that is literally what it is.

Practically any free, third party media player can open and play DVD movies.

Hell, DVD Decrypter can still just as easily rip your DVDs on Win10 as easily as it could on WinXP so you can transcode them into any format you like.

It's either an easy money grab for the ignorant or it exists for Microsoft brand loyalists.
However... I've never used it so, in theory, it could be the single best DVD player on Windows to date, but I highly doubt it.

If you want full quality and are not concerned about file size then phaser_on_overload's suggestion is the way to go. DVD Decrypter (which has not been updated in nearly a decade but still works 100%) can produce an exact copy of the disc and VLC can play it. This will include menus, FBI warnings, and all extras exactly as they appear on the original DVD.

If you want to conserve hard drive space, then Handbrake is the way to go. It also has the advantage of letting you rip just the movie, or any extras you want to bring with it, and skip the menus. Choosing a high-quality encoder like mp4 can give you picture quality equal to the original, or you can shrink it to suit your needs.

You can download DVD Decrypter to rip DVD's and then use Handbrake to encode.

If freaking Google would have the Nexus 10 in stock in Australia by now I would have had one to advise you of optimum settings. But from what I can see, it seems to playback most formats just fine.

You want a DVD Decrypter that creates loose files or a disk image like .ISO

I would ordinarily suggest the DVD Decrypter (http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/), but that isn't feasible since you're on Mac. The side-step solution is if you happen to run parallels so you can run this software in Windows, or if you have a virtual machine (with software like VMWare or Virtual Box) to emulate a Windows install and can pass through your DVD drive.

Failing that, you'll want Mac-specific software and DVDFab looks like it fits the bill. You can find a fairly recent version (DVDFab 11.0.6.1 [Intel] [K-ed]) over on RuTracker.

Assuming you've got a Windows PC, a DVD drive, and technical know-how:

Download and install DVD Decrypter. Inside the app, go to the Mode menu and make sure IFO is checked. Then go to Tools -> Settings, go to the IFO Mode tab, and change the File Splitting option to "By Chapter".

Now close the Settings dialog, insert your Zoo TV DVD, then go to the Stream Processing tab. Make sure that the "Enable Stream Processing" tab is checked, then uncheck all of the streams in the below list, except for the 2ch PCM stream near the top. Then navigate back to the Input tab and make sure that it has the 1 hr 57 minute long title selected (should have done this automatically).

Then click the big DVD -> Hard Drive icon to start ripping the audio tracks. Once they're done, you'll need to convert the ripped tracks to WAV format. You can do this using a program called BeSweet. Download and extract that zip file, then run the following command for each audio track (replace the paths with the actual location of your audio tracks):

besweet -core( -input "D:\U2_ZOO_TV\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_CHAPTER_01_1.VOB" -output "D:\U2_ZOO_TV\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_CHAPTER_01_1.wav" -2ch )

Repeat that command for each track (i.e. replace VTS_01_CHAPTER_01_1 with VTS_01_CHAPTER_02_1, VTS_01_CHAPTER_03_1, etc. Putting each command inside a single batch file can help speed things along.) When you're done, you should have a set of WAV files, ready to convert into whatever lossy/lossless format you'd like (MP3, AAC, FLAC etc.)

Download DVD Decrypter.

It will make a 1:1 copy of whatever DVD-V disc you put it minus any copy protection.

Can you show us the details of your disc drive? Open an explorer window. then right click and select 'Properties'. Then select hardware and give us a screenshot of what you get there.

This way we can rule out any problems with your disc writer.

For a 1:1 copy you can use DVD Decrypter to create an .ISO, which will include the full menu, and means it can also be burned to a DVDR and played on a DVD Player.

You may need AnyDVD if the disc is protected and that protection can't be removed with DVD Decrypter. You can run AnyDVD in the background to remove the protection, and then just rip it with DVD Decrypter.

or use Handbrake to rip to a single video file.

http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/

This program is great. I found out about it after I couldn't get DVDCSS libraries to work properly with Handbrake, so I had to rip it into a DRM-free ISO first for Handbrake to work.

Is it a video DVD and not a data DVD? It sounds like it's a data DVD. If it's not a data disc then are you sure you're opening the disc correctly in MakeMKV? You need to select the drive and hit that giant icon in the middle. Can you just open the disc from Windows Explorer and copy/paste the TVIDS file and run it from there? There's surely some software online somewhere to convert a TVDIS file if Handbrake can't handle it.

Also, checkout DVD Decrypter, I use that more than MakeMKV for DVDs and not Blu-Rays.

First you need something to remove the encryption - Something like slysoft's AnyDVD or DVD Decrypter ( http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/ ) - A list of decrypters can be found here > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_ripper

Then use a dvd copy program like CloneDVD2. You can just copy the decrypted Video_TS folder direct to a blank DVD, but could have problems if the file is larger that the blank media. Programs like Clonedvd2 can also slightly compress larger movies so that they can fit onto a standard 4.7gb DVD.

DVDShrink is another that will also do a similar function. It is freeware.

Honestly, it is really, really simple. Do a bit of goggling - You'll figure it out.

http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/ That can remove the encoding off of MOST DVDS, but some disks are encoded in ways that prevent it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_ripper (Nice little graph at the bottom for what program removes what encoding.) if DVD decrypter can't do it, but hey it's free.

I'm assuming the DVDs are probably copy-protected with CSS. DVD Decrypter can take care of that. Once you have an unencrypted rip of the DVD, you can either just back up those files, or encode the movie using Handbrake.

DVDDecrypto will rip them for you and store to a folder. You can play this folder with VLC.

The uncompressed version that you'll get is pretty big. You can shrink it down with a tool like HandBrake. That way you'll end up with a simple, single AVI file.

In your situation, one might make a copy of the DVD then return it. One would then be able to watch it at their leisure. If it isn't a crime to do so, you could use a combination of many tools, such as:

• DVD Decrypter
• DVD Shrink

I downloaded the necessary tools for patching, but one of its instructions puzzles me:

>2. Create an image file (ISO) of your DVD using DVD Decrypter. http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/

I can't seem to find the FM3 disc (its an ISO from an emulator site) in its menu and seems to require a drive destination.

Do I need to mount FM5 on an actual drive or virtual drive first?

P.S. - I'm at Mission 25 now. The fight against the Kouten was terrifying. Each of my squad lost a limb due to its missiles.

dvd decryptor

It’s old but it works most of the time

It strips the copy protection from the disk and copy’s it to your hard drive

The files are large after you copy it to your hard drive use hand break to re encode it to a more storage friendly format

Once it’s in a more friendly size plex or kodi for a nice front end interface

the closest thing i could find to what you were talking about is an old program called dvd decrypter for windows (available at http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk) it basically copies the dvd's file structure onto your hard drive, so it's not the same thing as having an .iso disk image, but most programs i use will play it the same as a dvd if you select the top level folder. whether the programs you use would play the directory as a dvd is another question entirely.

If they are only dvd you can rip them to files and play on media player easy enough.. I have a few us DVD that I took the image of the disc and it will play exactly as the disc is..

use this program

DVD Decrypter is totally free, bit of an older program and had the hammer dropped on it but it's archived at http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/

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This makes an ISO of DVDs, not sure about BRs, hadn't tried that yet. Since I wanted to make full images of my DVDs due to some slowly starting to experience some form of disc rot, I chose this for some things over MakeMKV, well, not over, instead I can back these ISOs up and then mount them in Windows (it's had the ability to mount ISOs built in since Win 7 or 8) and use MakeMKV to generate the individual files. Works very fast too, of course. And if I ever screw them up, no need to reread a disc for another 20 minutes, just remount!

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This does alter the image in so far as it strips out the DRM, so it's not a bit-for-bit copy, but it'll still be a functional DVD if you were to burn it or when you mount it, menus and all.

I agree. Just put the disc images on your NAS. DVD Decryptor is my preferred program for that. If you need to make them H.264s, Handbrake -- while "preset happy" IMO -- is the easiest/fool proof workflow for making H.264s from discs (I'm not insinuating you're a fool, of course.)

If you still have the original tapes it may be advantageous to digitize/copy them to a better format. DVD-Video is pretty low bitrate, plus the DVD recorder likely doesn't have great filtering for cleaning up crappy analog video.

I've done this tons of times before, so I can guide you through it if you want. Or you could just follow these very simple instructions and probably get the job done quicker. 1. Rip the DVD with [http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/](DVD Decrypter), then when that's done open the ripped files in [https://handbrake.fr/](Handbrake). Hit start and it will convert and render the DVD files to mp4. Hope this helps. lol =D

Unauthorized duplication is illegal. That being said, I have used DVD Decrypter to backup several hundred of my own DVDs over the last decade. You can even use DVD Shrink to reduce the file size or remove unwanted menu items or languages to save space. Not suggesting that you break the law, but for educational purposes.

This is going old school, but I used to use dvd decrypter to do this:

http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/

I think there are other programs that will do this (I want to say dvd fab does it as well which is probably more up to date), but way back when I would use this to rip my dvds at full quality.

I've never had a problem with adware (I make sure and uncheck all the options on install) or ripping DVDs with Daemon Tools, but if you are looking for DVD Decrypter, here is the mirror.

I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but you may wish to add DVD Decrypter. It allows you to create DVD images, which are extremely useful if you're at college away from home or if you travel a lot.

dvdshrink is free and works on most titles; sometimes it runs into problems with newer titles. It'll extract out to ISO format; burn the iso to a DVD using DVD Decrypter

DVDFab comes in trial form and has worked on every title I've ever used. It'll burn directly to a DVD for you, as well as allow you to output to various other formats.

It's pretty easy. DVD Smith (these are all free) will rip the disk to your computer.

Open DVD Shrink, select 'open files' (set it at "no compression", so you don't lose quality.) and hit 'backup'.

Now you'll have an "ISO" file. Put your blank DVD-DL into your computer, open DVD Decrypter, select that ISO, and hit the big green arrow. All done.

If any of that sounded confusing, it won't be once you have the programs open- they're all pretty straightforward.

Maybe there's an easier way to do it, but this is how I learned, and it's always worked out fine.

Never used Handbrake so can't speak for it, but I've always used DVD Decrypter to generate an .iso image of the disc - Once you have that you can mount it in something like DaemonTools Lite and then use the .iso as a normal DVD. Alternatively you can run it through other tools to convert to MP4/AVI or other video formats, but by keeping the .iso you conserve a perfect backup with all menus and DVD extras, and no loss of video quality.