Resident Evil : Apocalypse

[jamerican]

I tried to backup this movie using MacTheRipper with both settings (normal and AArcss?). While the files were extracted, they could not be played with DVD PLayer. This particular movie is also unrippable on the PC side.
Has anyone done a successful backup of this movie?

[dnix71]

Apples' dvd player may not play "files" Have you tried playing a vob in VLC?

[geezerbuttz]

if it cant be ripped on a pc either , how come there is a DivX floating around on the Torrent sites ?

GB

[jimmalenko]

This particular movie is also unrippable on the PC side.

FYI:

On the PC, VOBBlanker can do it with no hassles at all - see here.

[terryj]

GB,
how do we know the torrent isn't a camcorder copy?


I am picking this up today. Will test.
Also, have you (jamerican) tried the following:

MTR 2.6 ( Movie Only)
then try DVDTOX in Movie Only
and then test that?

[AlbcAlbrr]

I did a full disk ARccOS extraction with MTR 2.6. MTR notified that there were bad sectors at the end of the rip. The rip played just fine through the Apple DVD player.

I did a movie only shrink through DVD2one and that played just fine through the Apple DVD player as well.

FYI - using a G4 MDD 1.25S with Pioneer 108

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[jamerican]

GB,
how do we know the torrent isn't a camcorder copy?


I am picking this up today. Will test.
Also, have you (jamerican) tried the following:

MTR 2.6 ( Movie Only)
then try DVDTOX in Movie Only
and then test that?

I did use MTR 2.6 in Movie Only mode and the disc was ripped. I did not, however, try to compress with DTOX as the ripped file was less than 4 GB. That's why I tried to play the file in DVD PLayer. I will try VLC to see if that will work.

[jamerican]

Well, I just tried VLC and the movie hung on VTS 1. I jumped to the next chapter and the video played without any sound. I am going to try a full disc rip and see if that makes any difference. Terryj, let me know how you fared after you pick up this disc.

[WiseWeasel]

Maybe MTR is trying to protect you from your terrible choice in movies? :P j/k I'm surprised several people here actually spent money on this title. Hope you get the problem figured out though...

[pixeljammedia]

I agree with Wiseweasel. Garfield... Resident Evil:Apocolypse... would it really be that big a loss if you scratched the disc?

[live4ever]

MTR 2.6 ripped it fine (R1 on a matshita 816).

[milatchi]

Maybe MTR is trying to protect you from your terrible choice in movies?

would it really be that big a loss if you scratched the disc?

These same thoughts have been running through my head since this thread first appeared.

[AlbcAlbrr]

Not everyone's tastes are the same but on the other hand Resident Evil:Apocalypse features Milla Jovovich and Sienna Guillory so what's not to like? Okay, back to business.

As I stated earlier, MTR 2.6 worked flawlessly. It also automatically switched itself from full disc extraction to full disc ARccOS extraction, so when the rip was done and gave the bad sector msg. I wasn't surpriised.

Since I only want the movie on my backups, I run everything through DVD2One and use movie only. The RE:2 DVD has both wide & full screen versions. I extracted the wide only. The first chapter (3:31 minutes) was blank and the movie started in chapter 2. I ran DVD2one a second time and skipped chapter 1. The output from this starts playing as it should without a blank chapter.

I have since burned it to DVD with Toast and it's playing on the TV in the other room.[/i]

[WiseWeasel]

Out of curiosity, what country is that copy of Resident Evil from, AlbcAlbrr? Thanks for the info about the chapter abnormality, that's going to have to be something to be watched.

[geezerbuttz]

the blank chapter contains the zero index cells that ARccOS uses to hide the bad sector tracks.... i suggest that it is better in DTOX to use the cells menu instead of the chapter menus.... if you had good data cells and bad data cells in the chapter you disabled , you would of lost some of the move...

So , use the cells menu in DTOX and just disable the zero Index cells at the start of the movie.


On a note of MTR 2.7... this is gonna take longer than i thought , due to the fact that the movie only mode needs to be re-written to make it work correctly.It will automaticly detect and jump passed the zero index cells ( just like title / chapter does now ) author a new .IFO , and create a new VTS.IFO... i may implement stream removal , i have to see what needs to be changed in the NAVPACKs first....

This will assure that the movie only mode works without issues in the future.

GB

[AlbcAlbrr]

[Out of curiosity, what country is that copy of Resident Evil from, AlbcAlbrr?]

California. USA

[terryj]

Not everyone's tastes are the same but on the other hand Resident Evil:Apocalypse features Milla Jovovich and Sienna Guillory so what's not to like?

I've loved Milla since the Messenger, but to each his own tastes.

The RE:2 DVD has both wide & full screen versions. I extracted the wide only. The first chapter (3:31 minutes) was blank and the movie started in chapter 2. I ran DVD2one a second time and skipped chapter 1. The output from this starts playing as it should without a blank chapter.

I have since burned it to DVD with Toast and it's playing on the TV in the other room.[/i]

Hmm, since it has both versions ( is it double sided, or single sided DVD-9?)
I wonder how a full disc copy, and then a re-quantum through DVD2ONEX
to fit DVD-5 would look/ work?
I'm picking mine up tomorrow after work ( payday) so i'll test.

[AlbcAlbrr]

Hmm, since it has both versions ( is it double sided, or single sided DVD-9?) I wonder how a full disc copy, and then a re-quantum through DVD2ONEX to fit DVD-5 would look/ work?
I'm picking mine up tomorrow after work ( payday) so i'll test.

It's a single sided DVD-9. Each version of the movie accounts for about 3.5 gigs, so extracting one version with DVD2one doesn't use the compression feature. The result on a DVD-5 on a 32" screen is just perfect, IMHO.

[WiseWeasel]

What I would do for this particular DVD is just use Full Disc mode in MTR, and then delete the VOBs for the fullscreen version of the movie, leaving all the other VOBs. That should free up enough room to burn to DVD-R, and not require the use of requantizing software.

On another note, I guess this means that ARccOS has finally made it to the states. I guess we really caught that one just in time. Thanks to our users in Germany and Italy who sent us ARccOS-protected DVDs, so that we were ready by the time they spread further. Hopefully, DVD producers will notice that this new copy protection was futile, and won't pay the extra money to license it from Sony DADC.

[RDS]

I was surprised to see this...........

My buddy is another videophile that loves odd movies, and he just brought this film to me to rip, and back up for him. Seems he couldn't do it on his PC. Sure enough..... I couldn't do it either. I'm running a 800 MGZ PowerMac G4 iMac with OS 10.2.8. Nothing I tried seemed to work.

Drake

[WiseWeasel]

So MTR 2.6 didn't work at all? You sure you're using the latest version? Is this the US release? Did MTR switch to ARccOS mode automatically? How did it fail?

[geezerbuttz]

so , no one heard of macrovisions latest then eh!

they can make a disk fail to be ripped if ripping is faster than X1..

This will be a firmware guys job to fix , as you need to maybe slow the drive down.

GB

[RDS]

It switched over to Arccos, and just froze at number VTS_2_1 of the .vob files. I used DVDBackUp, as well, and it froze at the same spot. Yes, it's a US release, and I used MTR 2.06. I really wouldn't know how to slow down my drive, GB. I'm a total moron when it comes to doing complicated processes on the 'ol 'pooter. Just your atypical home user. I *do* know that the process failed at preciseley the same spot for my friend on a PC.

[AntnyMD]

Has anyone tried copying the files *encrypted* to the hard drive, then using MTR on the encrypted files from the hard drive?

[MerlinMacuser]

Yes, it's a US release, and I used MTR 2.06.

In case no one else noticed, the version RDS cited is not the same as MTR 2.6.

[RDS]

My mistake...... It's 2.6.

[spiderman2k1]

Take look

AnyDVD History

4.4.1.1 (beta), 2005 01 02

- New: Added support for a new version of the "Sony ARccOS
protection" as found on "Resident Evil - Apocalypse" (US)
or "Little Black Book" (US) to the option to remove
"Protection based on unreadable Sectors"
- Fix: AnyDVD did not work correctly with Mini-DVDs in
some CD-ROM drives
- Fix: Sometimes assumed unprotected DVD-R/RWs are CSS
protected DVDs with some drives
- Some minor fixes and improvements
- Updated languages

http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html

may try this in Virtual PC with CLONEDVD would work Sony has new copy protection placing fake dummy files on the DVD.

[john yaya]

Well, I tried several things with this title. I did get errors on the extraction with MTR 2.6 and, as I recall, it would hang up when playing back with Apple DVD Player. It would make it through the warnings and then lock up. I tried extracting only the feature with DTOX and the result was also unplayable with the Apple Player. I went ahead with my original plan of deleting the full screen VOBs and burning the rest of the disc. Though this was unplayable with the Apple Player, locking up after the warnings, it has worked with the 2 hardware players I have tried. Also, MTR did switch to ARCcos mode, though I don't know exactly what that is.

[geezerbuttz]

right , if someone gets WW the title , he will pass it onto me to look at.

Only way to fix it.

[Poppa_Meth]

I don't have a MAC so I'm not sure if this will be helpful at all.
Here is the Protected Sector List for DVD Decrypter that can be loaded to successfully rip this movie. Not sure if this list will help anyone with a MAC though. If you have a program that can import this list or enter it manually it may be worth a shot.

PSL
184370-184400
184401-184431
184432-184462
184463-184493
184494-192543
192544-196079
1953828-2084899
2259324-2259354
2259355-2259385
2259386-2259416
2259417-2259447
2267504-2271039
4038680-4038749
4038750-4169821
4169840-4169909