How can I get around the copying block on DVD?

[Blue Zeo]

Hi. I am having problems capturing my Buffy DVD's so I can make back up VCD's. I use the ATI 8500DV capture card. What happens is about 3 seconds of the episode records and it plays on a continuous loop and the audio plays in the background. I know this is due to a block on the DVD, my question is how do I get around this. Thanks.

[drewson99]

out of curiosity, before I get started, why don't you rip the DVD instead?

[andkiich]

you should be ripping the video from the dvd, which requires no capture from your video card whatsoever.

Check out the guides and topic to the left.

[Blue Zeo]

out of curiosity, before I get started, why don't you rip the DVD instead?

Mom got the computer without me, I told her to get a computer with a DVD-R/ CD burner, capture card, and a few other things. She comes home with a computer that has a DVD-RW/ CD burner. So in all honesty I am only 13 (will be 14 on 09-27) and stupid child labor laws won't let me work, so I have NO or little money and we all know how much DVD-RW's are.

[Don2050]

blue,

that is ok...the set up you have will work fine. Your dvd-rw will still rip the dvd to your hard drive where you can convert it to vcd and burn it with the same drive onto a cd in vcd format.

go under the 'Tools' section to the left..... they have programs now that do the DVD 2 VCD conversion process all in one. I think DVDx is one...DVD2SVCD, etc.....

In fact....you could even make perfect copies of your dvd's if you wanted too. Since you have a DVD-RW drive(lousy mom , you should thank her) you dont have to even spend all the time encoding and loose quality. The blank dvd-r's are less than $1 online now. They have the same one step 1:1 backup programs in the tools section also.

[spiderman2k1]

There are some thing you can do if you want to a capture you need a sima copy master they sell them at best buy for $50.00 dollars. This gets rid of the copy protection when capturing. Now if you want to rip with play the DVD for a ten sec to help unlock the DVD I like Smartripper just get the newest ASPI drivers some times some DVD will not rip right with out them. TMPG is the fastest VCD encoder and the best one I think. Or you can use FLASk with the panasonic plugin. Then use Nero to burn the MPEG1 files to a VCD Have fun DUDE

[drewson99]

not sure if anyone else said this outright - am too lazy to read.

A DVD-RW drive will burn to DVD-R as well. They call most drives these days -RW meaning both, they used to write out -R/-RW.

And yes, you can rip with the drive, as it is of course, a DVD-ROM as well.

I'd use Smartripper, DVD2One (if you are ripping a DVD9 - if it is a single layer DVD5 you don't need to reencode/transcode the files) then burn with Nero or RecordNow Max. (i use nero)

Many of the guides here will tell you how to use each of these individually, but I am not sure if there is an outright smartripper->dvd2one->nero guide yet. so easy once you do it once there needn't really be a guide.

Andy

oh - I use Ritek 1X-4X media, at about 1.90 each they are great. you can experiment with cheaper stuff but at your age I wouldn't screw around. if a guy like me blows $50 on crap it sucks but it isn't going to ruin my month

[fmctm1sw]

out of curiosity, before I get started, why don't you rip the DVD instead?

Mom got the computer without me, I told her to get a computer with a DVD-R/ CD burner, capture card, and a few other things. She comes home with a computer that has a DVD-RW/ CD burner. So in all honesty I am only 13 (will be 14 on 09-27) and stupid child labor laws won't let me work, so I have NO or little money and we all know how much DVD-RW's are.

13? And you're ripping DVDs and criticizing Mom's computer buying skills?! Holy crap.. When I was 13, I was playing Pitfall on my Atari 2600... How the times have changed.

Oh, and about labor... It ain't all it's cracked up to be

[Bullworth]

Boy fmctm1sw, at least you had an Atari. Didn't get a console until I moved out of the house and didn't have a real computer until I was 23. I wanted to get. The first computer we had was an Epson, back in the day when they made them. It was a monochrome monitor, a blazing 5.6 MHz and an astounding 1024Kb memory. To top this off it had a 5.25 floppy drive. And Blue Zeo has a DVD-RW drive...
Enough anyways, you've got more than enough to backup DVDs. Use SmartRipper or DVDcrypter to rip them to your HD intead of capturing through the card and having to play the entire episode. You can rip the DVD in about 10-15mins depending on the speed of the drive.
Use the links on the left to find your answers or do a search on the forums. Most basic/intermediate backup and authoring guides have been posted and many have solutions to the most common problems. Don't mean to sound so dry, I know I knew nothing about making backups when I started either. Just that alot of people don't even bother to search on the page for answers to basic questions and immediately post them, which is a little annoying to those of us who remember that in the beginning it was all trial and error and now there are several guides that show you how to do this.
Anyways, hope you enjoy your new little hobby. By the way, that distortion is macrovision, which just about every commecial video has. Most capture card manufacturers include macrovision detection in their cards so they can't be accused by the MPAA of assisting in video piracy. There are ways around it though...

[Blue Zeo]

not sure if anyone else said this outright - am too lazy to read.

A DVD-RW drive will burn to DVD-R as well. They call most drives these days -RW meaning both, they used to write out -R/-RW.

I tried that when I was trying to make a DVD for the last episode of Buffy. I captured it for DVD quality then the next day I went to Target ang got a five pack of DVD-R, went to burn and a box came up and said something like: "No media in Drive, insert Blank CD"

[Bullworth]

Blue, did you put in the disc in the RW drive, just assuming your system has another drive. Did you buy DVD+R discs or is the drive a DVD+RW? If it's a +RW you can't use -R discs with it.

[wulf109]

The ecomomy of DVD-R is quite good. A four episode disk will require 4 CDR's at .25 each thats a $1.00. You can buy DVD-R disks for $1.00 each off the internet. So cost isn't really a problem. You could borrow mom's credit card to buy them.

[steptoe]

Huh, Atari 2600, my parents couldn't afford that, I got a Vic-20 one Christmas a few years later, that started me off, 3.5k .... whoooo

I did try borrowing the schools ZX-81 with 16K, when they came out, couldn't afford that either !!


Anyway, use DVD Decryptor, but I agree, make sure you KNOW that you have either a DVD+RW OR a DVD-RW, it does make a BIG difference, if its a DVD+RW, you need DVD+R blanks, same with DVD-RW

READ the guides on ripping a DVD to VCD, they are very helpful, in fact read a few of the guides, even if you don't need to, you'll get a lot of information from them, about ripping, copying, burning, what's what, why it does this and that, and so on

[Blue Zeo]

Crap! It is a +, I need to get down to Best Buy

BTW, thanks to everyone for the help

[housepig]

this won't affect ripping, but it would affect burning -

are you sure this is a dvd-burner drive, or a dvd-rom/cd-burner combo drive?

when I think of "combo" drives, I think of dvd-rom and cd-burner, not dvd-burner and cd-burner.

[SLK001]

Blue,
Why don't you update your COMPUTER PROFILE so we can see what you have? That would be very helpful to your getting the correct feedback that you need.