How do I know if ripping got rid of 100% of the protections?

[l-w-c]

Once I rip a DVD and end up with a file in my HD, how do I know it's 100% unprotected?

Does the mere fact that the ripper managed to output something prove it? Because keep in mind programs like VLC and MPC ignore protections.

Thanks!

[ricoman]

What software do you use. Generally speaking, if it ripped to the HD, you removed the protection. I never heard of the the protection being copied with the DVD.

[l-w-c]

The programs I recall using were/are DVD Decrypter, SmartRipper and DVD Shrink.

I hope you're right that it's all or nothing. Protected ripped files would have probably been nothing but trouble.

[ricoman]

I've used them except Smartripper, and a t least a half dozen others including Anydvd and DVDFabDecrypter. All remove the protection, not copy it, I doubt Smartripper would be different. It just wouldn't make sense to copy the protection.

[poisondeathray]

There is no 100% sure way to know.

They can have blank cells at the beginning for example, even though it has been "copied to your hard drive". Another example is pixellated/distorted segments can signal poor copy protection removal, even though it exists on your hard drive... you get the picture

[lowellriggsiam]

If you tried to burn a DVD with remaining copy protection using Nero, in theory it should reject it. So you should be able to try that and see if it is rejected by Nero.

[manono]

None of the 3 decrypters mentioned will completely remove the copy protections from DVDs using more modern copy protections. If kept as unreencoded DVDs, most likely they'll play without issue. If reencoded, the thing most likely to occur is audio desynch because of the unreferenced cells still remaining, something already mentioned by poisondeathray.

[jman98]

The programs I recall using were/are DVD Decrypter, SmartRipper and DVD Shrink.

I hope you're right that it's all or nothing. Protected ripped files would have probably been nothing but trouble.

I don't feel comfortable saying it's impossible for any of those to rip a protected DVD and leave some of the protection in, but in my experience the modern methods that they don't understand result in failed rips - the program will show you errors and refuse to continue the rip. I do feel comfortable in saying it's highly unlikely that your rips are still protected. And with the original poster being in Israel (region 2, right?), the odds of having a DVD from Israel's region that uses those modern methods of protection is also quite low. I've heard of a few discs outside of region 1 that use these new protections, but it's still quite rare overall to find them on any discs outside of region 1. Again, I did NOT say it was impossible to find such discs, so please don't follow up with a post listing one of the few region 2 or 4 discs that uses ARCCOS, etc. I said it was rare. The vast majority of non-region 1 DVDs do NOT use these new DVD copy protection methods that DVD Decrypter, etc., don't understand.