Help with CSS

[Julie Owens]

Let me first start off by saying this site rules!!! I'm a newbie (as no doubt my question will show) and have found the forums on this site invaluable.

I suspect my question has been asked a million times, and before anyone has a go, I have had a look but have been unsuccessful in my quest (possibly need some new glasses) and was hoping someone could put me out of my misery sooner rather than later (a simple answer, or point me in the right direction to a previous discussion would be fine). Anyway, enough waffle, here I go......

Does anyone now of any software other than AnyDVD that is able to deal with CSS and region protection effectively because I can't seem to get DVD Decryptor to work with all DVD's? and the whole ASPI thing is way over my head!!!

Many thanks.

[tito13kfm]

try playing the dvd first in a software dvd player.. that usually cracks the encryption open far enough for DVD Decryptor to rip it.

[Gurm]

If you mean "on the fly", then no. Someone claimed recently that DVD Region Free removed CSS on the fly, but I don't believe them.

- Gurm

[andydd]

The old Flask mpeg decoder had a CSS plugin that could rip CSS n re-encode your DVD on the fly..it took about 12 hours though n all that time your DVD drive was spinning so not a great idea.

Doesnt DVDshrink rip CSS ?.

Personally I always use DVD decrypter n then DVD2One. Its quick n simple n I dont get problems

[vega1970]

I made various tests with DVD Decrypter and DVD Region Free.

If I put a regular region 1 disk in the drive and do not start
DVD Region Free, DVD Decrypter says:
Region: 1
CSS encryption: Yes

If I put the very same region 1 disk in the drive when DVD Region Free
is started ... and if I have declared "DVD decrypter" as a dvd player
within "DVD Region Free" setup, DVD Decrypter says:
Region: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
CSS encryption: No

And, if I start the ripping, no decryption is done by DVD decrypter
(the log says "CSS Key: N/A" for all files) and
the result files are OK.

So, it really looks like DVD Region Free really removes CSS protection
on the fly. At least for program declared as "dvd players" in its setup.

[spiderman2k1]

If you mean "on the fly", then no. Someone claimed recently that DVD Region Free removed CSS on the fly, but I don't believe them.

- Gurm

Gurm DVD Region Free does work very good if you use version 3.01 when I installed version 3.05 it would not work on the fly. DVD region free version 3.01 worked ever better then ANYDVD.

I think DVD region Free might have taken out CSS they might have been looking at a law suit who know's.

There also http://www.dvdxghost.com/ have not try it

When I was backing up Metropolis ANYDVD could not do the job was hanging up. I think I was using 1.6.3.7. DVD Region FREE 3.01 work with no problem's at all. DVD region Free I do not think is worth buying now I have not update past 3.05 there now up to 3.10. But give DVD region Free a try it might have been my system that did not like version 3.05. ANYDVD is very good very stable now DVD region FREE 3.01 is very stable. I went back to DVD region Free Version 3.01 no problem's

[musher70]

there is always Smartripper, but its a little older
the dvd-decrypter, but still always works,
if it doesnt wanna rip, try to play menu 1st....

[Adder_78]

This is great FREE tool:
DVD43...

Remember that (copy&paste from AD):

DVD43 also requires so-called Patin-Couffin access layer to be installed on system in order to access the DVD drive on lowest possible level. You can get Patin-Couffin access layer to your machine by installing either CopyToDVD, XPRESS or BlindWrite Suite.

After that you wont need any Decrypting tools... 8)