Trying to backup a Blu-ray disk to MP4 or MKV with freeware

[zanthal]

I had used Handbrake, Vidcoder and DVDFab Passkey 8 Lite version to make an approximately 3GB MP4 file of the main movie track of a Blu-Ray disk.

The video file was graphically perfect, synced precisely the same, and it was great, until I noticed that the apparent DRM protection or whatever else Fort Knox security program that refuses to let a fellow backup his own Blu-Ray movies had inserted these black screen, small white print notices every couple of minutes onto the video file that said some legal speak regarding playing this film with a computer or player that attempts to block the embedded security features of this disk, and so forth ad nauseum.

I would like to know from you fellows who are well-versed in this, as was pointed out to me in a other recent prior post, has copyright protection gotten so intrusively advanced that you can only backup a Blu-Ray disk to a video file with premium software? Or is there currently a reliable way to do it with freeware programs?

[Kerry56]

Would you mind showing a screenshot of the black screen/printed notice? This is not normal, unless you are talking about Cinavia once the audio has been muted. But the Cinavia warning will only show up when playing from a stand alone Blu-ray player, or an authorized software player like PowerDVD.

The only free decrypter for Blu-ray that I would recommend is MakeMKV. It is free while in beta (and has been in beta status for many years now). You have to put in a new beta key every month or two, which can be found here.
MakeMKV can rip the entire Blu-ray to the hard drive in Backup mode, or you can get the main movie only as an MKV file.

Once ripped, you can convert/re-encode with VidCoder or Handbrake as you wish.

[october262]

the black screen with small white print sound more like a JAVA protection error

[zanthal]

It was inserted in my Blu-Ray burner on my PC, and there you have it, it detected the "ripper" which in this case could only be DVDFab Passkey Lite, nothing else was running at the time.

[Kerry56]

Must be a disc with Screen Pass, which I have not personally seen, but heard of first in 2012, though I had forgotten the symptoms. It means that DVDFab Passkey Lite has not decrypted the movie correctly, and you probably have the wrong playlist copied.

You will have to use a better decrypter. I suggest starting with MakeMKV, since you want a free decrypter, but you may also want to try the free section of DVDFab, called DVDFab HD Decrypter. While you have the trial of DVDFab, you'll get full decryption capability of the program, but when the trial ends, you'll still be able to use the free section.

[zanthal]

Thanks for the advice

[steptoe]

Also, try looking at SlySoft AnyDVD HD

That will rip some blu-rays in 'free trial' mode the more advanced ripping protections you are asked to pay for the registered version. Personally I find it better than DVFab. I have been using AnyDVD for years and it failed on maybe a handful of discs. Using a different ripping mode worked on the problem discs so its about 98% success in ripping discs with protections

http://static.slysoft.com/SetupAnyDVD7670.exe