Capturing DVD footage

[snipper_cr]

Alright well i needed to do this for a project and because of this problem wasnt able to (found a workaround explained later).

Anyways I have a primary set up for how i would like to capture A/v. I would use my Radeon X850XT Rage Theatre chips Video input and then use my Audigy 2 ZS Plat for the audio input (especially the digital inputs). This keeps each stream to its specific peice of hardware first, plus i can use the digital inputs on my sound card.

In short i needed small clips from about 5-7 DVDs. So i took a DVD player and hooked it up with the above setting - Video to radeon and audio (digital) to sound card. I start with windows movie maker (i know, but hey its simple! and perfect for this project). Everything is working great - I see the menu of the DVD playing and i am showing a 20bit digital audio signal (Dolby Digital) coming in... alls good.

So I press play (Cause i need the opening of the movie, this one happened to be Titanic) and begin capturing. However, when the video starts playing (remember, i am viewing this on my computer), it is all garbled and distorted. The audio sounds like it is underwater. What gives?

I go back to the menu and it plays just fine! Yet i start the movie (or try ANY scene) and the video is all distorted, or it repeats the same 5 frames or something... just all in all really messed up!

Alright, so i try my secondary input, this comes in via my ATI HDTV wonders break out box, has regular RCA inputs. I figure, oh well, so i loose the quality a little who care - i need this to work. I chagne the inputs in the program, all is good in the menu and stuff yet when i start the movie... same problem!!!

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[ZippyP.]

Any ideas?

Yes. Use your computer and rip the DVD's, edit and compile as required.

[snipper_cr]

thanks, but...

anyone else?

[canadateck]

Do what ZippyP. Said,you may Also Use DVD Shink and Just rip the Parts you Need.

[canadateck]

But I Think your Main Problem is Macrovision.

[snipper_cr]

Macrovision?
::goes off to google::

So you think this is some sort of copyprotection? That would make sense actually...

That would be why the menu is not having the problem (why copyprotect menu?) yet the movie is where the problem is.

I am now really curious as to how this works... how the analog signal can be VIEWED on my computer just fine but not be recorded.

Since i am not using it to make illegal copies (I am using fairuse for, or would have, this project) is there a way to circumvent this? A software program? A different capture source?