Can't rip a copied dvd I've tried many rippers....

[Jeeper]

I cloned my original informercial dvds using dvdxcopy xpress onto a dvd-r media. I am now trying to rip the backup-clone onto my harddrive but it keeps stopping in the middle I tried the following:

1)dvd decryptor
2)smartripper
3)Surfsecret
4)super dvd ripper
5)dvdx
6)dup-dvd
7)clonedvd

I tried other rippers as well and it's all the same they all stop in the middle. At first I thought that the disc could be damaged but I have several other infomercial dvds that I cloned and I am getting the same error with those discs. I even tried using a different dvd drive and it still stops in the middle.

Unfortunately all my original dvds were lost in a fire so all I have left are the backup-clones and I cannot rip them. Please help me.

[gmatov]

Have you tried playing theseDVDs to check that they're not actually damaged, age or something, bad media?

[jester1x]

I would recommend simply copying the files (AUDIO_TS & VIDEO_TS) to your harddrive, then re-burning them. It's the method I use and it always works. Otherwise, your discs may be damaged.

[tigerman]

gday feller, from my experience and i am a newby to dvd cloning, to copy a dvdxcopy movie i had to use prassiprimo 2 and just cd to cd .I put image on hard drive first . I know the dvdxcopy wont copy its own copied movie so cd to cd was the way to go for me

[Gizmogajet]

It might be a specific VOB file which is causing problems. If it is, then use dvd decryptor and rip all the files except the that one. Then drag the problem VOB to the folder on your hard disk where you stored the other vobs. If that doesn't work try DVDshrink without recompression.

[dcsos]

DOESN'T DVD X COPY use their own form of copyguard to replace CSS?

Isn't this the problem you are having?
Is that aussie right that a DVD to DVD copy is the only way to go....

[OzzieKris]

G'day from yet another aussie

I am way from an expert in this field but the way i rip and burn my copies are the easiest and fastest way I have ever found

I use DVDx 2.2 and powerDVD player, tmpgenc.

All i do is put the movie in my D drive play it through powerDVD let it run for about 5 minutes till you know its playing right then open DVDx, put in your settings and start encoding, once encoding has started close down powerDVD and let DVDx do its thing.I always get some sort of authenticate error but i just ignore it lol

After encoding use mpeg tools in tmpgenc to merge, cut and edit.

I burn with Recordnow DX.

If you dont care about chapters and stuff like that well this is the way to go, my vcds are always on 2 disks but I dont mind I get great quality and sound and whats a couple of seconds to get up and change a disk.

Hope that helps.

Krissy

[FT Shark]

jester1x is right, just copy it to you hard drive with windows explorer.

If it is on a dvd-r then it is already de-crypted and you don't need a ripper. If that doesn't work than you have a bad copy.

[mkelley]

DOESN'T DVD X COPY use their own form of copyguard to replace CSS?

No, what DVDXCopy does is place a text file on the DVD that "tells" DVDXCopy this is a copied disk -- and DVDXCopy won't copy a disk with that text file on it. Nothing really tricky -- if, like a lot of us, you use DVDXCopy but burn the disks yourself (during the pause for the recording stage) you don't even bother dragging over that text file to copy. And thus DVDXCopy will indeed copy it's own disks.

However, if this guy has tried DVDDecrypter and other tools and it still isn't going, and he can't just drag the files over onto his hard drive and copy them from there, I tend to agree with the others and say that he may have had a bad copy in the first place (maybe a bad original that he copied).

If it were me and all else had failed I think one of the other poster's here had the start of an idea -- use Decrypter and rip the VOBs one by one until he finds the offender. If nothing more he might be able to reconstruct his DVD using another authoring tool (like DVDLab).

[ebenton]

I have successfully used DVDShrink to copy a DVDXCopy Xpress disk to my hard drive, then burn the files to another disk using Nero. DVDXCopy XPress won't copy it's own copies. When you insert the copy into your DVD ROM/Burner for reading, it simply sits there and does nothing, as if you hadn't even inserted a disk for copying.
I think they don't want to give the impression that they encourage "mass duplication" of DVD movies.