Problem ripping ET

[audax]

I am unable to rip the movie, ET. I've tried MacTheRipper on my Mac and DVDFab, CloneDVD, Magic DVD Copier and DVD Decrypter in XP on my PC. Is there a known problem with ET? With DVDFab, the program analyses the movie endlessly (more than an hour) without getting anywhere. The others find errors that they can't get past.

[guns1inger]

Is this a very recent re-release of ET ? If not, even the venerable DVD Decrypter should be able to rip it.

[audax]

It's perhaps a year old. I tried to rip a different disk of ET some 3 or 4 years back and was unable to do so then.

[Supreme2k]

I have just about every version of E.T (don't ask), and they all rip perfectly with DVDFab. One of them that I tried even worked with DVD Decrypter.

[guns1inger]

It's perhaps a year old. I tried to rip a different disk of ET some 3 or 4 years back and was unable to do so then.

Sorry, but it's you, not ET, that has the problem. I know that all the versions released over here can be ripped with DVD Decrypter on it's own. And anything a year old can easily be ripped by the latest DVD Fab HD Decrypter. When did you last update ?

[audax]

Hmm, I'm not sure what my problem can be. I have the most recent versions of all software. I have successfully ripped and burned more than a dozen movies since installing DVDFab and ET is the first to pose a problem. I've tried it on the Mac with the DVD in each of one internal and one external DVD drive, in XP under VMWare Fusion with the same two and on a Dell PC running Vista, using its internal drive. I guess I can always follow Supreme2k's example and buy them by the box load

Thanks for the input anyway.

[Dv8ted2]

You could download anydvd. Install it and let it run in the background. They try copying it.

[audax]

I tried AnyDVD once before on the XP virtual machine and my trial period has now expired. Ill try it on the Dell PC when I get a chance.

Just for interest, my DVD of ET has 34 files totalling 8,263,714 KB. Does that match any of yours, Supreme2k?

Running it through DVD Decrypter, it encounters read errors on file VTS_01_01_VOB and the read rate drops to zero - does that give any clue?

[Dv8ted2]

I tried AnyDVD once before and my trial period has now expired. I'm not inclined to buy it - I could buy a lot of DVDs for that cost.

Just for interest, my DVD of ET has 34 files totalling 8,263,714 KB. Does that match any of yours, Supreme2k?

I know what you are saying, but it normally is a one time cost and it is updated all of the time to bypass the latest copy protections, but to each their own. I bought it several years ago and get lifetime free updates.