removing CSS from a video_ts folder?

[ehmjay]

Okay, so my boss gave me a video_ts folder to burn a backup for him of a video he put together a while ago.

SOME HOW (he must have accidentally turned something on in DVD studio pro or something) CSS copy controll was added to the files and now toast will not let me burn them.

is there anyway to remove the CSS copy protection from this video ts folder (its not a disc image just a folder with all the .vob .bup .ifo files etc.)

like I mentioned before, this is something of ours, not a storebought dvd... which is what makes the whole thing so frusterating.

mactheripper wont work because it only rips from discs, and not from files. any ideas?

[Mark V]

Make the file into a Disc image, mount it and MTR will do the rest.

[ehmjay]

i shall try that. thank you sir.

[videopoo]

Only replicated discs will contain CSS so thats not the issue. Why wouldn't toast burn the disc?

[AntnyMD]

Only replicated discs will contain CSS so thats not the issue. Why wouldn't toast burn the disc?

VIDEO_TS folders from CSS encrypted discs will retain the encryption if you merely copy the files to your HDD using Finder. Toast won't burn this kind of folder because consumer DVD recorders cannot burn the area of a blank DVD where they CSS key needs to be placed.

If consumer DVD recorders could burn the CSS key, there would be no need for programs like MTR. (Assuming the goal of copying a DVD was purely to make a backup copy on disc, and not to share it via the internet with all 6 billion of your friends on the planet.)

[ehmjay]

yeah, like I said this is for the production company I work for and obviously SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE didn't follow the proper instructions...

my boss is a bit of a luddite so im really not too surprised.

im about to try the disk image solution, and will let everyone know how it worked.

[ehmjay]

okay i loaded the folder into disk utility and made a "cd/dvd master".

i opened it and then tried to run mtr and got 2 errors...

did i not create the image properly perhaps?

[ArtemisG3]

Try this. I have attached a droplet which uses mkisofs to create a UDF dvd image (which Disk Utility cannot do). Decompress the zip file. Create a folder which contains only your VIDEO_TS folder. Drop that new folder onto the Make DVD-IMG.app droplet. Once a dialog pops up saying that DVD image is complete, double-click the image to mount it, and run MacTheRipper on the image.

DVD Image Utility

[videopoo]

Well I'll have to assume since your boss made the disc...and he is a luddite ...it hasn't been replicated so this TS Folder will not have CSS encryption on it.

No reason to use MTR unless your going to remove the CSS...which this disc does not have...What is the error your getting in Toast?

[ehmjay]

thanks artemis i'll try that.

the toast error tells me that the folder contains CSS copyprotection or something along those lines.

my boss himself didn't make the disc he gave me, he took the files off of a disc someone else had previously made for the company. lol

gotta love knowing more than the ol' bossman.

[ehmjay]

hey artemis... i keep getting a popup saying
sh: -c: line1: syntax error near unexpected token `('
sh: -c: line 1: `'/users/adamschoales/desktop/make dvd-img.app/contents/resources/mkisofs'-quiet- f -dvd-video -udf -V DVD -o /users/adamschoales/desktop/ DVDimg. /volumes/schoales 279gb/movies/michael

and the options

edit and ok

then i click ok and nothing happens. any ideas why?

[ArtemisG3]

ehmjay, it looks like there is a space before the DVD folder name. if you could remove that space and try again, and let me know if that works.

[ArtemisG3]

ehmjay, i fixed the droplet to handle spaces (although you probably shouldn't have spaces in DVD names anyway). Also, when it prompts you to select a folder, select where you want the image saved (ie. don't select the DVD folder).

DVD Image Utility

[ehmjay]

thanks artemis. I managed to fix the problem by moving the files i wanted to be imaged from my external HD.

once i did that things worked perfectly. I will however download the new droplet for future use!

thanks for all your help!

[zerophase]

hi, i'm new here. i had the same problem as the user who posted this topic so i did a google search and found this place. i download the droplet the member posted and tried to go through the same steps after reading through.

the problem is that when i drag the video_ts folder to make a disk image, it says it is unable to do so due to "Warning: -follow-links does not always work correctly; be careful." and it says that even with any video_ts folder i have. can anyone tell me what my problem is?

[ArtemisG3]

Don't drag the VIDEO_TS folder onto the droplet. Drag its parent folder onto the droplet, and make sure that nothing more than the VIDEO_TS folder and possibly an AUDIO_TS folder are in the parent folder, nothing else.

[zerophase]

wow, it worked beautifully. thanks!

[ArtemisG3]

you're welcome

[zerophase]

this is kind of off topic from css but it has to do with copy protection. i'm trying to make a copy of a dvd but when i got mac the ripper to copy the files and used toast to burn them and tried to play it in a dvd player, the result was that a video started playing saying downloading is wrong and the dvd stopped playing. all of the actual video ts folder was on the dvd so i used vlc to play the file before i burnt it. it seems as if the video saying it was pirated is named VTS_01_1.VOB and VTS_01_1.VOB and after that, the files named 02_1.vob and such are the actual menu screens and the movie. i need to somehow get rid of the ones named 1 but if i just deleted them, toast says the dvd is corrupt. any suggestions?

[dnix71]

Visit ripdifferent.com forums and register to post. Give them the name of the video. There are later versions of MTR that are donationware that will handle that.

[zerophase]

i can;t just remove that file and rename the other ones or any easier way? ...its a lot of effort to sign up and post again... i'm registering now.

[zerophase]

every time i try to sign up i get an error:

Ran into problems sending Mail. Response: 535 auth failure

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File : smtp.php

[Levina]

ArtemisG3: your little droplet works like a charm. Thank you so much!



edit: typo

[ArtemisG3]

ArtemisG3: your little droplet works like a charm. Thanks you so much!

You're welcome, Levina.