Odd copy protection on various SpongeBob SquarePants DVDs

[CWeeb]

Greetings all,

I am a newbie to this forum seeking some assistance regarding some of my SpongeBob DVDs. Recently, I have been backing up a lot of my DVDs in general and have just now gotten to what I have for SpongeBob. However, it seems that the SpongeBob DVDs from 2009 - 2014, including three of the season sets, have this odd copy protection where it says the disc is somewhere around 16 GB or to something even more extreme like 20 or 30 GB. I have already attempted to rip these with DVD Decryptor and no luck. It starts, and gets to about 3% or 4% and then just stops and constantly has issues with ripping the rest of the disc. I can assure you all that there are no issues with these DVDs condition wise as they all play flawlessly. Below is a list of SpongeBob DVDs that have this issue:

SpongeBob's Truth or Square
Viking Sized Adventures
SpongeBob's Last Stand
Triton's Revenge
Legends of Bikini Bottom
The Great Patty Caper
Heroes of Bikini Bottom
SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip
SpongeBob's Frozen Face-Off
Ghouls Fools
It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
Extreme Kah-Rah-Tay

The Complete Sixth Season
The Complete Seventh Season
The Complete Eighth Season

If someone would be able to assist me with this issue, that would be great. Thanks!

[DB83]

Not 'odd' but, apparently, quite common.


If you do a forum search of 'fake vobs' you will find several topics that discuss the issue. DVD-decrypter is rather old/no longer developed software. The topics do mention more up-to-date software such DVD-Fab or makemkv that may assist you.

[Cornucopia]

What's happening is akin to listing multiple symbolic links to the same files as if they were each unique, individual files. Grows the size like crazy. And there could be other dead-end, dummy vobs to confuse decrypters.


Scott