New Protection? Copyright DVD. Copied but with statis noise background.

[percyv143]

Hi. My friend had mentioned to me that he copied a copyright dvd and was able to copy it using dvdfab and dvdshrink. The files were copied to the dvd disc but when you play it, there's a statis noise in the background. Is this a new protection? How can he rip the dvd properly? Thanks.

[Dv8ted2]

That sounds like going from a stereo audio source to mono speaker.

I could be wrong though.

[percyv143]

No, it's a static noise whenever there is an audio that comes out from the movie. The sound is like trying to cover up the real good sound.

[waheed]

I would say the problem lies with the sound card/speakers or the PC/dvd player software and not any sort of copy protection.

[percyv143]

I have tried to play another dvd and the sound is good also when I had removed the speakers and used my earphones. The player, I used Nero. I will try to install PowerDVD and see what happens.
Thanks.

[handyguy]

What dvd is it? Maybe you selected odd audio properties when making the copy?

[waheed]

Weird, because any transcoder including DVD Shrink does not touch the audio. Its only the video that gets compressed. The audio remains unchanged.

The only way the audio properties could have been changed were to re-encode the DVD. But this should not seem to be the case judging from your post.

There is no new form of copy protection that would distort sound on any DVD.

I would suggest you rip the original DVD again with DVD Decrypter, shrink with DVD Shrink, then test it before you burn or burn to a RW disk and test thereafter.

[jameshgross]

How come everytime someone cann't copy a DVD there is a new form of copy protection?
If this were the case no DVD player older then a month would ever be able to play new DVDs.

[percyv143]

Waheed is right. It's not the protection. I had tried to play the dvd-copied to a different laptop and it sounded ok. On my pc, I had uninstalled and reinstalled sound blaster and when you play any music the sound is good. Any video (mpg and vob) the sound is distorted. I tried to play the video files on powerdvd, mediaplayer, nero but it had all static. what could be wrong? codecs needed? I never had this problem before. thanks.

[handyguy]

"How come everytime someone cann't copy a DVD there is a new form of copy protection? "

Or they could search the forum for the sticky that is about I can't backup with dvdshrink or dvddecrypter...

[SLK001]

Your friend's DVD player is using PIO mode instead of DMA. Change to DMA (which ever IDE channel it's on) and all will be right again.

[percyv143]

I had installed Powerdvd and every bootup the diagnostic window comes out if I want to enable DMA on all my drives and restarted and when bootup again it comes out again. So how do I set it up manually? Thanks.