AnyDVD-HD is Coming ?

[devilcoelhodog]

See above:

--> http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=121450

--> http://ovh2.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=8&page=2

Thanks.

devil (johner)

[Dv8ted2]

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This is excellent news.

Slysoft is awesome.

[joepic]

You can read all about it here:
http://ovh2.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=8&page=2

I have taken some of the posts and formatted them for this forum:

"1. It Will Not Support Blu-Ray just HD...

2. decrypts any HD DVD disc I have tried.

3. The first version will probably have a working "Remove annoying trailers..." function. Adios, FBI warning.

4. The 20 second Universal "HD-DVD is great" logo which you cannot skip is now gone for good.

5. nobody's gonna have to painfully search for title keys in the memory of some badly written player.

Sylsoft's decision to support HD DVD with AnyDVD HD was simple:

1.) No region code. Makes my job easy.

2.) Less DRM. Again, makes my job easier.

3.) XBOX360 HD DVD drive ($200 or less). Cheap solution to read HD DVD discs on a PC. Works fine under Windows XP & Vista. Available now for everyone.

4.) Consumer friendly. You can write HD DVD structures on normal DVDs, and HD DVD player will (well, should) play it.

Maybe I have to support Blu-ray in the future, but if I am lucky, Blu-ray will die first. "

[joepic]

"SlySoft will not make any official statements on the product for 3-5 weeks, as they have not yet issued any press releases."

Read the whole story here:

AnyDVD HD coming soon
http://wesleytech.com/anydvd-hd-coming-soon/

[joepic]

SlySoft is looking for AnyDVD HD beta testers

If you are interested in the development of AnyDVD HD check this out:


http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/SlySoft-is-looking-for-AnyDVD-HD-beta-testers.html

Just recently, users came across a post on SlySoft's public forum that made it clear about them working on AnyDVD HD. This is an upcoming product that will not only allow the backing up of HD DVD movies, but also allow high definition playback on digital displays without the dreaded HDCP requirements for both the display and graphics card.

Before the official launch of AnyDVD HD, SlySoft is seeking technically experienced users who are interested in beta testing the product. However, these are the strict requirements that the beta tester must have according to SlySoft:

Experiences with AnyDVD and DVD copying
A good reputation in forums like CDFreaks, Afterdawn or SlySoft
Appropriate HD-DVD drive(s)
SlySoft is asking for to please not waste your or their time if you do not have any of the above experiences or reputation. For those genuinely interested and have the above experiences, further details and method contact can be found on our forum in this thread. http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=209186

Comments from the forum:
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Toshiba has a SD-H903A model HD-DVD burner that's slowly coming out. I have no idea what the price is going to be, but, at least it's an announced product. Haven't seen any media. But, for me, I'm not worried about burning right now. I know eventually prices will come down and we'll get to that stage. I'm more worried about the playback experience. And I think AnyDVD HD is going to seriously improve things on that front. One of the truly SHOCKING things Slysoft has done was to add a scripts directory. You can rewrite and modify an XML document that describes the HD-DVD disc. When you pop the disc in, this script replaces the one from the disc and thus applies any changes you may have made in real time. This probably sounds confusing and a little bit of "why would you want to do that?" at the moment. But when you see this feature in action and realize the power it affords you, I think this is going to be a MAJOR feature. Especially when you eventually get into the ripping idea. Customize the disc anyway you want with these scripts, rip it to the hard drive, and then burn it back to a blank disc. SWEET!!!
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This is even better if you do *not* want to rip to harddisk. With discs of 30GB size and quite slow drives, you want to avoid ripping as much as possible.
With the "magic file replacement(tm)" in the AnyDVD HD driver, you can alter the disc on the fly with files on your harddisk and try out your modified script with your player software on your PC ... *without* having to rip it first!
If you rip the whole disc to harddisk (drag & drop in AnyDVD HD, as the AnyDVD HD Ripper is not yet implemented), you can alter the files there. But that's boring (especially if you have to wait 1 1/2 hours for the rip to complete). Without a burner it isn't only boring, but superfluous, too.

It works this way:
Whenever you insert a HD DVD, AnyDVD will create a subdirectory with the volume label and decrypt the XML files from the HD DVD into it. You can leave them there and do nothing. If you insert the disc the next time, AnyDVD will not overwrite existing scripts (you can tell AnyDVD to delete them, though).
Whenever a sector is read from the physical disc which belonged to a file which has been copied to the scripts directory, the driver will read the file and replace the sector on the disc.
To make it work all shiny, AnyDVD will do a little more magic, like adjusting the UDF2.5 file system to mirror changes in the file size, correct crc checksums, yadda, yadda, yadda.
What you can do now: Before reinserting the disc, modify the files on harddisk to your liking. As AnyDVD will not overwrite existing scripts, it will now replace the original version of the file with your version.
Now press play in your player software. Does it work? No? Try again. Does it work now? Yes? SWEET!!!

AnyDVD HD won't make your processor faster, of course. Or your RAM bigger. So if your machine is too slow to decode HD, AnyDVD HD won't help you.
But if your Graphicard is not HDCP compliant or you digital monitor is not HDCP compliant, AnyDVD HD will help you.
As AnyDVD makes the AACS protection "invisible" for both the OS and player software, the player will believe "fine, an unprotected disc! no need to enforce HDCP on the digital output!"
Yes, unprotected HD DVD discs do exist. From my 37 test discs 2 are unprotected (one from the US, one from Europe).
These discs play without AnyDVD HD over non-HDCP digital connections. All the other discs will only play with AnyDVD HD running (and they will play better, because of some AACS implementation problems in the software player).

[joepic]

Anydvd-HD beta is out....

If you have a working HD DVD player on your PC and want to try it, check out this site:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=122174

Get latest beta here:
http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=1375

[MJA]

how much is the HD blank media ?

[joepic]

Here is one users feedback on using AnyDVD HD:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=122174&page=3

"I just tried the AnyDVD HD program and wanted to report my two cents. It does, in fact, work great as it is. And if this is the BETA, I wonder what the STABLE will be like.

After I installed the product AnyDVD-HD on my computer and rebooted, I then created a new empty folder in My Documents and named it the name of one of my HD DVD disc. I then placed the original disc into the X BOX 360 add-on drive, went to My Computer and opened up the drive to see the files on the disc. The files, if you installed the product right and rebooted, should be renamed automatically. You should see now -ADV-OBJ, HVDVD_TS, ANYDVD HD, and SLY!. Then I just highlighted those four files and dragged and dropped them into my new empty folder of the movies name I made, in this case An American Werewolf In London. It took about 45 minutes to fully copy the files over on my Pentium 4.

After that, I opened up Cyberlinc PowerDVD 7.1 (others have been saying 7.2 but mine is version 7.1- NOTE: 7.1 is HD DVD version & 7.2 is Blu-ray), at the bottom I picked the source "Open movie file from Hard Disc Drive" and point to the new folder you made with the new files copied over. I clicked OK and the movie started playing right away, WITH NO PAUSES FOR HDCP HANDSHAKES!, obviously! So you people without the HDCP compliant systems will be pleased!

Two things I also observed. Whenever I play movies from the HD DVD 360 add-on, I might experience a skip here and there while the movie is playing. While watching the new file I backed up with PowerDVD 7.1, I didn't experience ANY skips while watching the files. The movie played smoothly for me. I will test with other movies. I own about 15 HD DVDs right now, with The Fog on its way!

Also, not to sound like an idiot, but I had thought at one time my menus for HD DVDs weren't working properly. I was trying to switch between Play , Setup, Special Features with my pointer like I do when I watch Standard DVDs on my computer with WinDVD. I "accidentally" found out I could toggle between menu options with the arrow keys on my computer keyboard. Up and down to switch between options, then side to side arrows to access those selected options. Then Enter to select your new option. I experimented with this as some people were reporting in the forums the menus worked fine for them while others were reporting they didin't have ANY menu functions. I just wanted to point this out to everyone who was having problems with menu options. I use the pointer to switch between options with Standard DVD but I have to use the arrow keys on the keyboard to switch between options for HD DVD."

AnyDVD HD creates the following file structure on you hard drive after copying a movie to your hard drive.

ROOT/-

ANYDVDHD/
CONTENT_CERT.AACS
CONTENT_HASH_TABLE1.AACS
CONTENT_HASH_TABLE2.AACS
CONTENT_REVOCATION_LIST.AACS
DKF.AACS
MKBROM.AACS
MNGCPY_MANIFEST.XML
VTKF000.AACS
VTUF000.AACS

ADV_OBJ/
DISCID.DAT
VPLST000.XPL
menu.aca

HVDVD_TS/
HVA00001.VTI
FBI_WHVLOGO240.MAP
HDintro.MAP
Interpol.MAP
PEVOB_1.MAP
PEVOB_2.MAP
SUPERMANRETJORELN4FE1_HD.MAP
SUPERMANRETTEASEN6LT1_HD.MAP
SUPERMANRETTLRN6LT1_HD_2.MAP
SUPERMAN_DELETED.MAP
SUPERMAN_MAKING_PT1.MAP
SUPERMAN_MAKING_PT2.MAP
SUPERMAN_MPAA.MAP
WVSUPS0026N4FT1_HD.MAP
intro_black.MAP
FBI_WHVLOGO240.EVO
HDintro.EVO
Interpol.EVO
SUPERMAN_DELETED.EVO
SUPERMAN_MAKING_PT1.EVO
PEVOB_1.EVO
PEVOB_2.EVO
SUPERMANRETJORELN4FE1_HD.EVO
SUPERMANRETTEASEN6LT1_HD.EVO
SUPERMANRETTLRN6LT1_HD_2.EVO
SUPERMAN_MAKING_PT2.EVO
SUPERMAN_MPAA.EVO
WVSUPS0026N4FT1_HD.EVO
intro_black.EVO

SLY!/
CONTENT_CERT.AACS
CONTENT_HASH_TABLE1.AACS
CONTENT_HASH_TABLE2.AACS
CONTENT_REVOCATION_LIST.AACS
DKF.AACS
MKBRECORDABLE.AACS
MKBROM.AACS
MNGCPY_MANIFEST.XML
VTKF000.AACS
VTUF000.AACS

Here is the file structure on HD DVD King Kong. You need UDF 2.5 installed on your PC to view the new file structure:

[videopoo]

Great!!!!!


Let the slaughtering begin

[joepic]

Has anyone done this yet?

Software required:
AnyDVD HD - beta
ImgBurn - v2.2.0.0
Daemon Tools - version ?
PowerDVD - 6.5 or 7.1

Using AnyDVD HD copy an HD movie to your hard drive.

Using ImgBurn create a .ISO file of the movie.

Using Daemon Tools mount the .ISO file.

Play movie with PowerDVD.

Does this process work?

[TheUnknownComic]

AnyDVD HD released
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37701

SlySoft Ships HD DVD Ripper App; Blu-ray Support Planned
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2096382,00.asp

[joepic]

Has anyone done this yet?

Software required:
AnyDVD HD - beta
ImgBurn - v2.2.0.0
Daemon Tools - version ?
PowerDVD - 6.5 or 7.1

Using AnyDVD HD copy an HD movie to your hard drive.

Using ImgBurn create a .ISO file of the movie.

Using Daemon Tools mount the .ISO file.

Play movie with PowerDVD.

Does this process work?

It is possible to do part of the above request:

You could try creating an iso image directly from the disc using the newest version of IsoBuster from here www.isobuster.com, it supports HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.

ISO Recorder seems to work under Vista for making an ISO image file directly from an HD-DVD when AnyDVD/HD is resident.
http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

Here is the problem:
With AnyDVD-HD running you can successfully make an HD-DVD ISO of a movie such as King Kong but how do you mount the .ISO file?

I don't know of any software that can mount hd-dvd iso files yet - soon Slysofts Virtual Clone Drive (freeware) will learn to emulate the required HD commands.

Until then, you'll can simply rip the complete directory structure to your Disc. PowerDVD 7.x will play these nicely.