Dvd vob

[biferi]

Everybody knows DVDs are Encrypted but I have a lot of DVDs that I Buy.

So I got this Free Program called DVDSmith Movie Backup.

And I want to Decrypt my DVD Main Movie just the VOB Fil and save it to my Hard Drive.

So I start the Program and Click Main Movie and pick a Folder on my DeskTop to Save it to.

Then I Pick how to Decrypt the DVD it has Un Incrypted Encrypted and these 2. are to gather.

I pick these and click start and it does it and gets half way throught and says
This Program Can Only Descrypt To A DVD Or Folder Or Hard Drive.

And this is what I am doing.
Can anybody help me?

This is my DVD I got at a Store and I want to keep the VOB Main Movie on my Hard Drive.

Or did I get the Wrong Program I have Bad Eyes?
Thanks

[october262]

you should use a program such as dvdfab as it is constantly updated at removing copy protections.

[lingyi]

+1 to DVDFab or DVD Passkey

Also, a few points.

Not all commercial DVDs have copy protection. If they're from outside the U.S. or Europe, they likely aren't copy protected.

What are your trying to do when you say to want to copy the main movie .vob(s)? The proper way to rip a DVD is to use DVDFab or DVD Passkey (forget the program you downloaded) and either create an .iso (which is a complete copy of your disc) or to folders, VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. The VIDEO_TS folder will have all the necessary files (not just the .vobs) to convert your movie to whatever final format/container of your choosing. Just ripping the .vobs would require additional unnecessary steps and be much more difficult.

If you just want the movie only in an .mkv container (i.e. an exact bit for bit copy/quality), give MakeMKV a try.

If you're planning to re-encode the ripped movie/disc into something else, for example, .mp4, .avi, etc. Post what you're trying to do (save it directly on the your hard drive, stream, shrink to use on portable devices, etc.) and some will walk you through the programs and steps you need to do that.

Again, it all starts with properly, ripping your DVD with either DVDFab or MakeMKV. If these are new releases, you may have to wait a few weeks/months for the free version of DVDFab to be updated to handle new copy protection schemes or pay for the full program for quicker updates.

[DB83]

Let's assume for one moment that the issue is not copy-protection (even if this program has not been updated for 6 years)

Try to select an actual output folder on your hard drive rather than a desktop short-cut.

[biferi]

I did select an Output Folder on my Hard Drive and the Program DVDSmith Movie Backup Ripps the DVD.

Then a Window opens and tells me
DVDSmith Movie Backup Can Only Copy DVDs Not Clone Them.

I do not want to Clone my DVD I just want to Copy it.
And if you go to the WebSite they say DVDSmith Movie Backup will let you Copy the DVD or just the Main Movie.

So this is not working so I will just let this Program go.

I did use DVD Decrypter for Years and I would Ripp and Decrypt my DVDs and just take the Main Movie .VOB File and save it to my Hard Drive.
And I would Burn that .VOB File to my Blank CD or DVD and keep it as a Backup.

But this one Movie I just got called Friend Request DVD Decrypter will not Ripp.
And I did try DVDFAB and I pick the Main Movie but when I go to pick my Output Format I Pick .VOB File.

And DVDFAB tells me it does not support this Format with the Free Version.

So I hope I told you what I am doing so you can help me?

[october262]

DVD Decrypter has not been updated in quite sometime,
when you rip the dvd with dvdfab just copy the dvd to your hard drive.
and then burn with the dvdfab program or use another program
like dvdshrink to shrink to an iso file and burn to a blank dvd disc using imgburn.

[Cornucopia]

Get AnyDVD and run it in the background while continuing to use DVDDecrypter, then you don't have to learn anything new.

Scott

[biferi]

Thanks for the help.
I just used DVDFab Passkey 9 like this.

I Installed it then Ran DVD Decrypter and it worded.

And I Right DVDFab Passkey 9 is to help other Pragrams?

Thanks again.

[lordsmurf]

DVD Decrypter has not been updated in quite sometime,

So? Most DVDs aren't using protections that thwart it.
Some are, but most are not.
Some don't even bother with anti-copy at all anymore.

[netmask56]

Thanks for the help.
I just used DVDFab Passkey 9 like this.

I Installed it then Ran DVD Decrypter and it worded.

And I Right DVDFab Passkey 9 is to help other Pragrams?

Thanks again.

YES!

It removes region coding.

[biferi]

If DVDs are not useing Copy Protaction then why can you not Copy some of them?

[manono]

If DVDs are not useing Copy Protaction then why can you not Copy some of them?

You can. Easily. And I've done it myself many times. Or are you really asking something else?

[biferi]

I think I iss understand what you tole me?

For many Years now I used DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink to Ripp my DVDs just the .VOB Files to my Hard Drive.

And Off anf On I am seeing they do not work anymore.
But as soon as I installed DVDFab Passkey 9 they work good.

So am I Right DVDs are Copy Protacted and DVDFab Passkey 9 is Removing the Protaction?

Or is this not what is going on?

This is what I should have asked.

[manono]

Hollywood's latest and greatest use advanced copy protection for which you need DVDFab HD Decrypter or AnyDVD or similar. The vast majority of the world's DVDs either use no protection at all or older simpler kinds so you can use DVD Decrypter or just drag-and-drop.

[netmask56]

DVD Passkey takes care or Region Coding that is separate and additional to any copy protection.

R1 Region 1 ~ U.S.A., U.S. Territories and Canada
R2 Region 2 ~ Europe, Japan, the Middle East, Egypt, South Africa, Greenland
R3 Region 3 ~ Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong
R4 Region 4 ~ Mexico, South and Central America, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Caribbean
R5 Region 5 ~ Russia, Eastern Europe, India, Africa (excluding South Africa), North Korea, Mongolia
R6 Region 6 ~ China

For Blu ray discs the world is divided for commercial purpose into 3 zones.

Zone A: North America, Central America, South America, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.
Zone B: Europe, Greenland, French territories, Middle East, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Zone C: India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Mainland China, Pakistan, Russia, Central and South Asia.

[biferi]

So the DVD Passkey program I have takes care of the Regon.

So I am in the USA so I am Regon 1. but is a Regon a Type of Protaction as Well?

I know the Regon tells the DVD Player to use NTSC and 30 F.P.S at 720X480.

But I got a USA DVD so why would my program DVD Passkey help me to Ripp it?
Just because the DVD is Regon 1. I am in the USA so I should have no probmlem Ripping it on my Hard Drive?

[lingyi]

Please put aside what you ‘think’ you know as it’s causing confusion for you and those answering your questions.

In a nutshell, DVD Passkey removes CCS and AACS copy protection (if it’s present), removes Region/Area restrictions (if it’s present) as well as other types of protection, such as multiple false .VOBs (if it’s present).

Is DVD Passkey absolutely necessary to rip (not ‘ripp’) most new DVDs which likely don’t contain copy or other types of protections? No. Is it absolutely necessary to rip Blu-Rays? Probably Yes. Is it absolutely necessary to remove Region/Area codes? Possibly No as your Blu-Ray reader and standalone player may ignore the codes.

Does it make it easier and quicker to rip DVDs and Blu-Rays that may contain copy or other types of other protection schemes and/or Region/Area codes? Absolutely Yes!

Could you use older programs like DVD Decrypter to rip your DVDs? Maybe. But why spend time using something that may or not work, when DVD Passkey WILL work! If you don’t want to pay for the full version and have a new DVD or Blu-Ray that the trial version won’t rip, wait a few weeks or months until the trial version is updated as it lags behind the paid version updates.

Bottom line, continue to use DVD Passkey and don't worry about what and how it's doing its work or keep trying to use older programs like DVD Decrypter and wonder why it does or doesn't work.


Detailed answers about your questions.

Copy protection - There are two main types of copy protection used on DVDs and Blu-Rays. CCS for commercial DVDs and AACS for commercial Blu-Rays. As stated above, most non-USA discs don’t use copy protection because it requires a license fee to be paid to use it. However, some companies have been using different types of protection schemes such as fooling programs into seeing the DVD as being much larger or having more .VOBs than it actually does.

Region/Area Codes - Aren’t really copy protection in that they don’t prevent copying of the DVD / Blu-Ray content. Rather, they prevent DVDs/Blu-Rays intended for distribution in specific country/region from being played in a DVD/Blu-Ray player outside the country/region they’re intended for. This is because movie/video rights and license fees differ in different countries/regions.

Region/Area Code and DVD/Blu-Ray content - Since the Region Code just prevents, for example a Region 3 disc from being played in a Region 1 only DVD player, it has nothing to do with how the content of the DVD was encoded. A Region 1 DVD can contain NSTC, PAL or 24fps content and an Area 1 Blu-Ray can contain NSTC, PAL, 24fps, 59.94fps or 60fps content. It all depends on the original content and how it was or wasn't converted. Note that if the DVD or Blu-Ray contains PAL (25fps) content, you may need to use a DVD/Blu-Ray player that will play back the PAL signal. This isn't an issue for playback on your PC or the majority of standalone media players. And your HDTV will playback anything output by a standalone player.

[Cornucopia]

There are a number of "protections" that can be put on an authored disc:
1. Region coding (to make it playable only is certain areas, thus allowing marketing/distribution to have separate markets)
2. PUOs (Prohibited User Operations) = certain buttons/actions are turned off/not allowed for a certain title (incl. FF/RW, Chapter skip)
3. Analog CP (aka the Macrovision flag)
4. Encryption (= CSS for DVD, = AACS for BD)

Many/most decryption apps will remove ALL of the above together.
AnyDVD and DVDFab Passkey are examples of on-the-fly/runtime decrypter background services (so that foreground apps see the discs as already unencrypted/decrypted). They probably ALSO do the other stuff, as well.

Scott

edit>lingyi beat me to it...

NOTE: if you use DVDDecrypter on top of AnyDVD/Passkey, you may get the best of both worlds, as there are still some features that are available (or easier to use) in Decrypter that aren't on other apps, such as ripping-by-chapter, ripping & demuxing to raw streams, etc.