Types of DVD Protections

[MasterSource]

hej there,

i was wondering if there is a program that lets you view what type of protections there are on a DVD, PUOs or ARcoSS and the like?

thanks

[freelock7]

No. But you can bypassing them through DVDD, AnyDVD ...http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/bypassing_dvd_protection.cfm

[setarip_old]

@MasterSource

Hi!

PUOs are not copy protection, rather they are merely "user prohibitions" (Restrictions on what controls you can use during playback)...

[HKT3020_1]

Within a couple of days the $10 discount courtesy of afterdawn will be no more so I for one want to take advantage of this offer while it still lasts but before that, perhaps someone can clarify this for me. When ripping with DVD Decrypter and using AnyDVD, is there a specific settings that should be altered with Decrypter or AnyDVD? I've heard mixed responses and was hoping that this could be cleared up once and for all.

[cynthia_old]

Why buy a program when you can use an alternative way for free?

[freelock7]

-HKT3020_1
You can't use Both of them because of incompatibility.

[HKT3020_1]

Why buy a program when you can use an alternative way for free?

Alternative method does sound enticing, care to share some information. :sly:

You can't use Both of them because of incompatibility.

So for instance, if I have AnyDVD installed on my system then what would be the appropriate way to go about ripping a DVD. I'm basically trying to prepare myself for the 22nd of this month as the latest batch of Sony DVDs make there way to store shelves. :)

[setarip_old]

"cynthia_old" was likely referring to the combination of DVD Decrypter, PGCEdit, the PSL2 plugin (which may or may not have to be modified by its author when the next "version" of ARccOS appears), and VOBBlanker - and then DVD Shrink...

[bourtzovlakas]

You can use DVD Decrypter with AnyDVD...
Tools-->settings-->I/O-->interface-->ElbyCDIO
Tools-->settings-->General-->Check for structure protection:un-check

But it is pointless to use two rippers at the same time...

[MasterSource]

pointless to use two rippers at the same time?

not if one is defeating the copy protection and the other is just simply ripping the required content...

[bourtzovlakas]

If one of them is bypassing the copy protection, then the other one is useless...

DVD Decrypter doesn 't need AnyDVD to bypass new protections...
Only a working .PSL file...

And AnyDVD doesn 't need DVD Decrypter to transfer the files to your hard drive...
You can do that, even by copy-pasting the files through Windows Explorer...

Using both at the same time is pointless...

[Mr. Monte]

If one of them is bypassing the copy protection, then the other one is useless...

And AnyDVD doesn 't need DVD Decrypter to transfer the files to your hard drive...
You can do that, even by copy-pasting the files through Windows Explorer...

Using both at the same time is pointless...

Sorry, but I regretfully disagree. There are many reasons one would want to rip a DVD to the HD first (rip, not copy and paste).

For example..I want to do extrat certain chapters (stream process)..would be hard to do with a cut and paste. So I would need to be able to exztract the chapters from the VOB's whilst by-passing copy protection.

This is just one reason.

[setarip_old]

Only a working .PSL file...

As I mentioned above, it actually now requires several pieces of software to produce the PSLs needed to circumvent that latest ARccOS copy protection schemes...

[bourtzovlakas]

As i wrote in my previous post...
"You can do that, even by copy-pasting the files through Windows Explorer"...

That is the simplest way...
...but it 's not the only one...

All i 'm saying is that DVD Decrypter is designed to work with a .PSL file...
...not with another ripper, running in the background...
If you want to use all the functionality of DVD Decrypter, use the appropriate .PSL file...
It is very easy to search if a .PSL file for the particular title already exists, and if it doesn 't, it is very easy to produce it...

[MuttLover]

...
If you want to use all the functionality of DVD Decrypter, use the appropriate .PSL file...
It is very easy to search if a .PSL file for the particular title already exists, and if it doesn 't, it is very easy to produce it...

I have to question your definition of easy. I read through the instructions of creating a PSL file and from my point-of-view it may be easy, but I sure couldn't see my dad or my wife even coming close to being able to do this.

Most of the folks on this site are video-geeky. But lots of folks just want to push a button and have something happen for them.

[bourtzovlakas]

If you are able to produce such a file, then there is no need for your dad or wife to produce another one...
What i mean is that the protection scheme doesn 't change for copies of the same title...
If one person produces one .PSL file for a certain release and publish it on the net, then everybody who have the same release can use it...
No need to produce it again. Just find it, download it, and import it to DVD Decrypter...

Is this so hard?

[setarip_old]

@bourtzovlakas

Hi!

The point being made by "MuttLover" is well taken.

There's a world of difference between: CREATING a PSL file (using the multiple programs and plugin required), that is not that easy and simply seeking such a file online to be used essentially as a "crack" or "key" for a particular DVD, that is that easy.

[bourtzovlakas]

The difference exists for people totally unexperienced, with this kind of stuff...
I akwnoledge that...
All i am saying is, that it only takes one experienced person to create a .PSL file for each release, so that the less experienced users will never have to deal with this process...

[setarip_old]

Yep, that's correct...