HD-DVD (and Blu-Ray) decrypting tools

[awhitehead]

This is in no way authoritative, and probably misses a bunch of things. I attempted to summarize what a tool does, what OS it runs under, and if a source code for it is available. This list will be updated sporadically. Please tell me if I missed something, or if I am incorrect about anything. In green I've indicated the software which might be of most utility to someone who is just starting with backing up his HD-DVD collection.

Blu-Ray Specific


BackupBluRay (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=941299#post941299) - the original utility to create backup copies of Blu-Ray disks by Muslix64 (Java, source code). Note: BackupBluRay uses older keydb.cfg format then DumpHD. Originally BackupBluRay was using a hash of AACS\CPSUnit00001.cci file on Blu-Ray disk, that proved to be not unique. DumpHD 0.3 and newer uses SHA1 of AACS\Unit_Key_RO.inf which is thought to be unique per each pressing of Blu-Ray disk. You might need to edit the keydb.cfg file with a text editor and calculate SHA1 hash of different files to convert between the two keydb.cfg formats.
bdkeyfinder (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=941504#post941504) - ape's utility to obtain the BD VUK from WinDVD 8. (Windows EXE, source code)
Blu-Ray Disc Ripper (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=129663) by SuperGoof is capable of ripping Blu-Ray discs, and has provisions for making rips region-free (Windows XP + .NET 2.0, partial source code (http://rapidshare.com/files/56338249/cDecrypt.zip.html))


HD-DVD Specific

BackupHDDVD C# (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=121042) (Source code (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=967639#post967639)) - C sharp port of BackupHDDVD by Emon, with CLI and GUI. In addition to EVO files, decrypts ACA files. Option to toggle NAV bug fix on and off is pending. Might have a bit of problem with large files, please check your backups, if you deal with files over 4 gigs in size (Windows, C# source code, rebuildable on anything that supports C#/.Net)
BackupHDDVD-GUI (http://www.google.ru/search?&hl=en&q=BackupHDDVD-GUI-0.1.3.exe) (This program have been removed from sf.net due to alledged DMCA violations, and there are no reliable locations where it can be found on internet. Consider searching for "BackupHDDVD-GUI" on google) - Tool to decrypt HD-DVD movies. Graphical front-end to BackupHDDVD, with added ACA decryption functionality. Is alledged to mangle certaing packets in order to fix a "nav bug". Consider commenting out the line EncryptedPart[0x516-128]=127; in aacs/decoder/EVOBPack.java and recompiling. (Windows/Java, Java loads Windows specific DLLs. Java Source code included)
validateVUK (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=948778&postcount=1) - Tool to check if a particular VUK will indeed decrypt a particular HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disk, written by evdberg (Windows EXE, closed source)
Zotty's ACA Decrypter (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=943705&postcount=1) - Decrypts .ACA files on HD-DVD disks. ACA files contain information necessary for menu reconstruction. (Windows EXE, Linux binary, C++ source code)
extract_aca (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=943970#post943970) by APE - tool to extract elements out of .ACA files. (Windows EXE, source code)
aacsauth (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=966227#post966227) (original Linux source code (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=965425#post965425)) - a program written for Linux by jx6bpm, and ported to Windows by arnezami, that uses PowerDVD's private key to do the key negotiation with the HD-DVD drive (Windows, Linux, source code in C)
Microsoft HD-DVD Interactivity Jumpstart (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/hddvd/default.aspx) - a package of software, produced by Microsoft, useful for HD-DVD authoring. Includes ACA creator, HD-DVD simulator, and HD-DVD validator software, and can be used to validate that menus were decrypted and re-created correctly. (Windows .MSI installer, closed source, might require WGA validation in order to download).
VUKkeyfinder (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=939941) - APE's tool that checks WinDVD 8 memory and attempts to locate Volume Unique Key in it (Windows EXE, C++ source code)
BackupHDDVD v1.0 (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=924731#post924731) (v 0.99 (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=922059#post922059) for historical interest only) - Original BackupHDDVD utility, written by Muslix64. Has hardcoded "nav fix" which corrupts certain packets. At this point this is probably mostly for historical interest to folks writing their own decrypters. (Java, source code included)
FengTao Software released a version of DVDFab HD Decrypter (http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm) that is reported to work with HD-DVDs (Windows EXE, freeware, closed source)



Dual-Use


AVGo Media Recorder (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=137132) (Second link (http://www.bluraydiscripper.com/)) is a video recorder, that can record any video played by a software media player (Windows EXE, free as in beer)
DumpHD (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=966851&postcount=1) - Tool to backup HD-DVDs. Includes ACAPacker and PackScanner, tool that can blank/revert secondary VC-1 video stream and first Secondary DD+ audio stream (IME/U-Control) (Java, closed source)
Note: BackupBluRay uses older keydb.cfg format then DumpHD. Originally BackupBluRay was using a hash of AACS\CPSUnit00001.cci file on Blu-Ray disk, that proved to be not unique. DumpHD 0.3 and newer uses SHA1 of AACS\Unit_Key_RO.inf which is thought to be unique per each pressing of Blu-Ray disk. You might need to edit the keydb.cfg file with a text editor and calculate SHA1 hash of different files to convert between the two keydb.cfg formats.
aacskeys (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=968972#post968972) (Windows + Linux source code (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=969683#post969683), older Windows only source code (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=969481#post969481), Linux for PS3 binary (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=970317#post970317) ) - Program by arnezami, that generates a complete list of all volume and chapter keys (and pretty much all other possible keys that you might require) for a particular HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disk. Uses PowerDVD 7.1 host certificate in order to communicate with the drive. (Windows EXE, source code in C with instructions for compilation under Windows and Linux).
mkb.exe (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=953496#post953496), (Mac OS version (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=953516#post953516)) - evdberg's tool to obtain VUK from a disk, if a Volume ID for the disk is known. Can sometimes be used in conjunction with dumpvid and validatevuk to obtain a functional VUK to decrypt an HD-DVD disk (Windows and MacOS X, closed source)
Dumpvid (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=956255#post956255) - Tool to intercept the communication between the drive and a valid player software, and obtain the volume ID of the drive. Can read the first half of the volume ID from any HD-DVD disk without authentication. (Windows EXE, c++ source code). arnezami modified it for use with Blu-Ray drives (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=993782#post993782)
PackScanner (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=951004#post951004) - Tool which scans EVOs for pack types and can blank the video and audio streams. Functionality have been integrated into DumpHD by the author (Java, closed source)
EVOdemux (http://www.pel.hu/down/EVOdemux.exe) (Changelog (http://www.pel.hu/down/EVOdemux.txt)) - Pelican 9's tool to demux .EVO files (Windows EXE, source code might be available on request)

AnyDVD HD is available from SlySoft. I do not provide a direct link to it for reasons outlined in this post (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=967106#post967106). Use Google, if you want. (Windows only, closed source, 79 USD a license, 21 day evaluation period)


Playback of HD-DVDs and Blu-Ray on a PC

Cyberlink BD/HD Advisor (http://www.cyberlink.com/english/support/bdhd_support/diagnosis.jsp) - Software for Windows that will check if your system (and especially your video card) is compatible with Cyberlink PowerDVD software. PowerDVD 7.x uses video card hardware accelleration, and will only playback HD-DVD content on specific video cards. (Windows, close source, free download)
Cyberlink (http://www.cyberlink.com/) PowerDVD Ultra (http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/products/main_112_ENU.html) is the de-facto standard for playback of Hi-Def content on HTPC. However since Cyberlink uses video adapter specific hardware acclereation, you must double-check that you have a supported video card. If you have a supported video card but no HDCP connection to your monitor, in versions 6.5, 7.1 - 7.3 it will enforce 540p playback even if ICT is not set on the disk (Windows, closed source, $99.95 USD)
Intervideo (http://www.intervideo.com/) WinDVD 8 Platinum (http://www.intervideo.co.jp/products/wd8p/) Japanese edition. Instructions for ordering were posted on avsforum (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=8871286&&#post8871286) (Windows, commercial software, 13440 yen (about 135 USD), closed source)
NeroShowtime plugin (http://www.nero.com/nero7/enu/Blu_Ray_Plugin.html) that requires NeroShowTime 3, and plays back HD-DVD and BDAV (Self-authored) Blu-Ray . There are conflicting reports if this plugin is present in Nero 7 Ultra Edition Enhanced (http://www.nero.com/nero7/enu/Nero_7_Premium_New_Features.html), or if you need to spend additional money on top of buying Nero 7 UE to enable Hi Def playback. (Commercial software, closed source, 24.99 USD for plug-in, 79.99 USD for Nero 7 Ultra Edition)
Arcsoft Digital Theater 2 (http://www.arcsoft.com/products/digitaltheatre/) (Listed for 89.95 USD for a full version with HD support) is a newcomer on the scene, that can play back both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs. FREE TRIAL available (http://www.junglejapan.com/download/pub/trial/TotalMediaExtremeTrial.exe) (Direct link, 172 MB) from ArcSoft Japan (http://www.arcsoft-jungle.jp/products/tme/trial.php) (2007.10.01)


Random Notes

People reported that it is possible to use a DJ (http://members.fortunecity.com/neshkov/dj.html) or JAD (http://www.kpdus.com/jad.html) Java decompiler to decompile Java files on Blu-Ray disks, and in some cases remove region protection. More information in this thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=122283).

arenzami discovered that it is possible to sniff the transaction happening between a valid player and an HD-DVD drive, and obtain volume ID and other information. More information in this thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=121866). I theorize that a similar technique can be used with a Blu-Ray drive mounted in an external USB enclosure. arnezami used USB Snoop (http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/usbsnoop/) v1.8, but for devices mounted on IDE and SATA chains, people suggested Bus Hound (http://www.perisoft.net/bushound/index.htm) (Commercial, limited functionality version is free). Geremia then posted CDBs used for communication with the drive further down in the thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=957612#post957612).

Information on the firmware of the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive, including instructions on flashing it, high resolution photographs of the drive's logic board, information about CPU (Fujitsu FR 32 based) on the drive, firmware disassembly, etc are all in Geremia's thread about SD-S802A drive (www.xboxhacker.net/index.php?topic=6866.0) on xboxhacker.net. There is also a thread on drive firmware modifications here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=124294), including tools to back up firmware of your own Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=986474#post986474). If you own an Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive, download a utility to read the volume IDs off the HD-DVD disk (http://www.ingenieria-inversa.cl/files/vid.rar), and a utility to backup your firmware image (http://www.xboxhacker.net/index.php?topic=6866.msg44556#msg44556) (both by xt5 of xboxhackers.net. dump.exe will likely work on SD-H802A drive as well). This (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=987057#post987057) post explains what vid.exe does, and this post (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=986910#post986910) explains how to operate dump.exe.. Geremia continued on to reverse engineer firmware, and figured out how to read the Control Data Zone of the HD-DVD disks (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=125180). Now we know where on discs Host Revocation List is located.

If you are very concerned about device key revocation, and not being able to play back a legitimate HD-DVD because newer disk will revoke your player or drive, make a backup of Volume Unique Key for each one of your disks. The easiest method is probably to run aacskeys (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=968972#post968972) in verbose mode on every disk that you own. Then save the results in a safe place (if you are concerned about hard drive failures, printing it out, and putting them in disk liner notes works). This way (in conjunction with utility like DumpHD (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=966851&postcount=1)) you will have the necessary keys to decrypt the contents even if licensed software refuses to do it for you.

This thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=123376) has some notes on resetting the number of Blu-Ray region changes in PowerDVD.

Windows Vista has built in UDF 2.5 driver. If you need UDF 2.5 driver for Windows XP, read the article at uneasysilence (http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/11/8303/) on what they did to get Xbox360 drive to work. UDF 2.50 patch for Linux 2.6.20 (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1671912&group_id=295&atid=300295). Mac OS X 10.4 doesn't have UDF 2.5 driver, so playback under MacOS is currently questionable. Note that Roxio Toast Titanium 7.1.2 or newer (For sure Toast 8.0) has a RoxioBluRaySupport kernel extension, that is reported to support reading some Blu-Ray disks, but doesn't support mounting HD-DVD discs.

If you experience weird distortions/magnification of the image (as shown here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=965968#post965968)) when playing back HD-DVDs on systems set to display resolution above 1920x1200, or so, maybe decreasing resolution will fix your problem. More information in this post (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=971016#post971016).

[honai]

Very useful list, nice explanations, thanks!

[blutach]

Agreed - very useful indeed.

Regards

[mrazzido]

yeah very usefull ,

@ moderator

this were a very good sticky.

[blutach]

Was thinking the same thing myself mrazzido :)

I hope awhitehead keep this up to date, especially considering arnezami's new offering aacskeys (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=123311).

Regards

[HyperHacker]

Why no link to the Java version of BackupHDDVD?

[Emon]

FYI: My app can decrypt ACA files also.

I guess it makes sense that you didn't mark it as green though. It is an exact port of BackupHDDVD ..which has the "nav bug". I will add an option to turn on/off the "EncryptedPart[0x516-128]=127;" line.

[awhitehead]

Emon, I apologize, as I didn't mean to hurt anyone's feelings. Intent of highlighting a few apps was to permit someone who just got an HD-DVD drive and a couple of disks to figure out what software he should get to get started right away.

But you are right, your app provides most of the similar functionality (Yours doesn't do stream blanking, right?) together with a GUI, and ACA decrypting.

Thank you for pointing it out.

[KenD00]

Some corrections from my side:
- DumpHD does not validate or zero out any streams
- PackScanner does only work for HD-DVDs (and DVDs)
- PackScanner can only blank / revert the Secondary VC-1 Video Stream and the first Secondary DD+ Audio Stream
- The functionality of PackScanner is not integrated into DumpHD, this tool is just included (like the ACAPacker)

:rolleyes:

[awhitehead]

Some corrections from my side:


Thank you! :)

[stewwy]

great post.... any chance of a similar sticky for HD and or EVO playback? What works with what OS, workarounds for non-HDPC systems (selfishly thats the problem I'm having) etc

stewwy:helpful:

[awhitehead]

Why no link to the Java version of BackupHDDVD?

I'll add it in, but in my mind functionally it is obsolete. It's main advantage was the fact that the source code was available and it was written in Java, however by this point it is pretty well established that it mangles packets in efforts to deal with bugs in PowerDVD 6.5 (So called "NAV fix"), and there are multiple implementations that have a nicer interface, and are re-implemented in various languages. At this point it's more of a basic learning tool that people can use if they need a very narrow feature set in order to do their own implementation of the decryption algorithms.

If you look at the comment I made for BackupHDDVD-GUI, I'd recommend that the same fix is to be applied to it too.

(Yes, something being written in Java can actually be an advantage, because then it can run not only on Windows, but on Linux and MacOS too)


great post.... any chance of a similar sticky for HD and or EVO playback? What works with what OS, workarounds for non-HDPC systems (selfishly thats the problem I'm having) etc


Thank you for your kind words.

There actually a couple of factors involved. For starters, playback, de-muxing, re-compressing, etc is all outside of the scope of this forum. The only reason I did include a link to EVOdemux is because it's a tool that has direct applications to decryption and correction of the menu XML files - it will tell you how many frames are present in a stream, what each stream in the container consists of, etc, all of which are needed if you want to correct the menus of HD-DVDs to work.

Additionally, in order to be meaningful, implementing your suggestion would require testing in a number of various combinations, having a wide variety of hardware, probably some sort of lab setup with ability to image systems with different OSes, swapping hardware, etc. Otherwise anything I'll write would not be authoritative, and would be of limited utility to anyone.

Sadly this looks like a full time job with very little returns in terms of actually paying the bills. I am excessively busy as it is (as are all of us, I am sure). No matter how I'd want to help you out, there are only so many hours in a day that I can dedicate to what is, on a grand scale of things, is a very minor hobby to me.

However, in no way should you be discouraged by my inability to help you. Start your own thread with your suggestions at the apropriate forum, and if it gets sufficient interest, I am sure over time moderators will make it a sticky.

[setarip_old]

Have any of you folks, who have the required hardware (I don't) checked out and evaluated the recently released freeware beta HD-DVD ripper from Fengtao Software? (There's a posting about its release in the "News" sub-forum)

It can be obtained at:

http://www.dvdfab.com/DVDFabHDDecrypter3090Beta.exe

It would be good to know your findings about it...

[szb005]

nice explanations, thanks!

[Pelican9]

DVDFab HD Decrypter working perfectly.
I've tried to rip King Kong, the result is good (working menu, everything is OK).
It takes 62 minutes for the full disc.
Easy to use.

[awhitehead]

Thank you for suggesting, setarip_old, and thank you for testing, Pelican9 Added to the list.

[SuperGoof]

NeroShowtime plugin (http://www.nero.com/nero7/enu/Blu_Ray_Plugin.html) that requires NeroShowTime 3, and plays back HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.


Hi,

According to Nero web-site and user reports, this plug-in does not actually play Blu-ray movies. It only supports playback of BDAV authored discs. (Movies are BDMV)

[awhitehead]

Hi,

According to Nero web-site and user reports, this plug-in does not actually play Blu-ray movies. It only supports playback of BDAV authored discs. (Movies are BDMV)

I am sorry, I got confused by the AACS Playback bullet point on the feature list. You certainly are right.

[Henkske]

Does anyone know if it possible to remove the extras from a blu-ray disc?

I hope i can post this message here. I dind't know where to put it

Grt Henkske

[davinleeds]

DVD Fab HD not working for Iwo Jima. Used the latest 3156 beta.

[igboo]

DVD Fab HD not working for Iwo Jima. Used the latest 3156 beta.

On the DVDFab site the regular d/l links to ver 3160 as opposed to the 3156 beta link below it. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I just noticed the change in version numbers.

[DVD Maniac]

I just tried v 3.1.6.2 with my new Toshiba Reader. It can't seem to open up the disc and scan it properly. I then tried anydvd hd and that seems to be working fine.

Anyone else having problems?

[davinleeds]

My PowerDVD7 is not working on the Alexander revisted. My Fabulois worked fine but now there are two pictures added in the ADV OBJ. I used to just double click on ADV OBJ and then discid.dat and all would play. Now I have to go to to Feature_1.EVO in HVDVD_TS. Change is added Time Warner logos that when you double click come up in picture viewer. Crap is this a valid PDVD7 player and I can't get encryption update.

[laguna_b]

DVDFAB seems to work but the rate varies dramatically from 10s of megs/sec to .5m/sec. Anyone else see this?

I would like to copy the files to hard drive and rip from there but that option (ripping from hard drive) doesn't seem to work.

Comments?

[davinleeds]

DVDFAB seems to work but the rate varies dramatically from 10s of megs/sec to .5m/sec. Anyone else see this?

I would like to copy the files to hard drive and rip from there but that option (ripping from hard drive) doesn't seem to work.

Comments?

This happens, varying rates, when my disk needs a cleaning. I've also simply restarted and it worked fine.

[davinleeds]

Alice Cooper at Montreaux, HDDVD Decrypter doesn't work, latest beta. BackupHDDVD says NO ACCS, I can't believe it. Just drag and drop -took about an hour. I was almost fooled.

[davinleeds]

Today The enterprise has defeated HD DVD Decrypter.. Won't let me back up HD or DVD. Romulans? 4014

And now all back ups ... Something on the disks Even successful rips are changed.

[ofield]

DVDFab HD Decrypter working perfectly.
I've tried to rip King Kong, the result is good (working menu, everything is OK).
It takes 62 minutes for the full disc.
Easy to use.

Hello everyone I am new HD DVD I orderd the HD DVD add on for my Xbox 360. Have not receivedt it yet.

I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction to get a guide for DVDFab HD Decrypter.

Thanks for the help...

[mfuribondo]

I just purchased Cyberlink and discovered that it does not have the ability to play blu ray files from my hard drive. Does anyone know of any programs that can do this?

Thanks,
Mike

[joeyf]

I just purchased Cyberlink and discovered that it does not have the ability to play blu ray files from my hard drive. Does anyone know of any programs that can do this?

Thanks,
Mike

Nero 8 with the BluRay/HD-DVD add-on.

[Pelican9]

I just purchased Cyberlink and discovered that it does not have the ability to play blu ray files from my hard drive. Does anyone know of any programs that can do this?

Thanks,
Mike

Try an older version of PowerDVD.

[captain_video]

I just purchased Cyberlink and discovered that it does not have the ability to play blu ray files from my hard drive. Does anyone know of any programs that can do this?

Thanks,
Mike
I 2nd the notion that you need Nero Showtime 4 and the HD plug-in. I've tried numerous versions of PowerDVD with no luck.

Someone asked about stripping out the extras from a Blu-Ray disc. This is possible but it leaves you with just a barebones m2ts file (playable with Nero Showtime 4 and the aforementioned plug-in). There's a couple of processes outlined in the AnyDVD HD section at the Slysoft forums for reducing the size of both HD-DVDs and BD discs. There is also a process for dealing with funky BD files that are scattered randomly about the STREAM folder and not kept in a single large file. The necessary utilities are all identified in the threads. I don't recall if they have links to them but they're easy to find with Google.

[Fredthefrenchy]

I Have a problem when I use dumpHD on my linux sytem (Ubuntu Gutsy) :
Processing key: 455FE10422CA29C4933F95052B792AB2
Encrypted C-value: 64ED18919C7367794FFC321831C17AB6
Corresponding uv: 00000049

Decrypted C-value: F5934711B9C551101BDFBCFA58EF1150
Media key: F5934711B9C551101BDFBCFA58EF1119

Encrypted verification data: 73A0BDF54DF94CE5AD619D0B1FFF671F
Decr verif data should be: 0123456789ABCDEF
Decrypted verification data: 0123456789ABCDEF86BF81C667355C8E

Drive FW info: 1.01 07/05/15 PIONEER

AGID: 00

Host certificate from: Power DVD 7.1
Host certificate (Hcert): 0200005CFFFF0000000C00006E3DEB679B9A16AD
FAA8E30878767BA6EB2A9B415385AD1181B4446C
31E9A5DD2AB808B364FF15885BAC490964318C9B
F8029FCF76F688A54FBDA03F6D9332EF04E5A613
12DA85880A4D9CBB79D8602E
Host Private Key (Hpriv): 4737676058D7029452514F0AB186DC4CCA8C578F
Host Nonce (Hn): 2923BE84E16CD6AE529049F1F1BBE9EBB3A6DB3C

It looks like the given Host Certficate/Private Key has been revoked (by your drive).


ERROR: SENDHOSTCHAL errnr: -1


aacskeys ERROR: SENDHOSTCHAL, errnr: -1
Failed retrieving keys from source

Some ideas to fix it ? (it's for the movie : The Patriot (Europe) )

[davinleeds]

Using DVD Fab HD I tried to back up my Hulk HD DVD and "process fail" happened twice. Today looked at DVD Volume file, and the HDVD TS folder is there, no ADV OBJ folder. I try to play Feature 1.evo with ArcSoft - no go. Try with PDVD3319 - yes. Didn't know it would work without the ADV OBJ folder. Nice after a difficult day.

[davinleeds]

Another odd happenstance, backing up Shooter HDDVD with new DeCrypter 4.1.1.0. Crashes, but I try 3.1.7.6 which works but takes a long time. Click Ignore Reading Errors and about 1 hour. Seems the old is the new. Do a sample portion watch of chapters and seems fine. What wonders.

[odditory]

Any chance this list will get updated at some point? (i realize its a lot of work)

[DVD Maniac]

I 2nd the notion that you need Nero Showtime 4 and the HD plug-in. I've tried numerous versions of PowerDVD with no luck..

Before I start spending any more money on this, can I just clarify that Nero Showtime + Plug in plays from HARD DRIVE sources as well as optical sources just like Power DVD used to before they sold out to movie company pressure? If it does, does it need a disc Image or will it play from a straight forward ripped version?

If it does, thats great, what worries me is how long it will be supported before the same thing happens and it mysteriously disappears in some future "update"..........

[Octo-puss]

Hello! I got semi-lame half blind reader question, but hopefully I will be excused :)
Is there any (/which of those mentioned in 1st post) Blu-Ray ripping tool similar to the famous DVD Shrink, in terms of resources modesty and similarly easy to use, yet powerful at same time?

[dat720]

NO!! read some of the other post's in the decrypting forum and you will quickly discover the answer!

[Octo-puss]

Well, it's not that easy with zero knowledge. But ok.

[Blue_MiSfit]

It's not quite there yet :)

Backing up HD-DVD / BluRay is quite doable, and once you've done a few it's not bad at all.

But - it's nowhere NEAR as easy as DVD Shrink. With that lovely little app you do this:
1) Insert disc
2) Select features you want
3) Encode / Burn

With HD, you have to
1) Decrypt EVOs/M2TS files on the fly with AnyDVD HD
2) Probe the file structure to find your target streams using eac3to, and output these to elementary streams on your hard drive - possibly re-encoding audio on the fly
3) Load the elementary video stream into AviSynth and write a filter chain as necessary
4) Load the AviSynth script into encoding software, and encode as you please
5) Mux the video and audio

:)

~MiSfit

[Octo-puss]

Thanks! That's EXACTLY that kind of answer I wanted.
All of these steps are needed and can't be done differently then?

[Atak_Snajpera]

1) Install AnyDVD HD
2) Select any EVO/M2ts in RipBot264

[dat720]

Well, it's not that easy with zero knowledge. But ok.

There is a thread titled DVD Shrink for Blu Ray (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=136594) in the decrypting forum which contains the answer to your question, if you also notice in my signature there is a guide which covers converting HD/BluRay to avi/mkv.

I don't mean to sound rude or like a dick!! but i have put up with some of the stupidest questions from public servants everyday, and get a little snappy :) sorry.

[dat720]

3) Load the elementary video stream into AviSynth and write a filter chain as necessary
4) Load the AviSynth script into encoding software, and encode as you please


Have you tried encoding the streams directly? if you haven't tried or noticed, mencoder can do it without requiring avs script's and it cut's out a hell of a lot of steps!

[odin24]

Has anybody experienced this issue?

I recently ripped a BD with AnyDVD HD, the m2ts main movie file played back on my PC scrambled with the entire screen pixelized and green. The exact same file played fine on my PS3.

[Adub]

What were you using to play the file? Also, what version of AnyDVD HD were you using?

[odin24]

I double checked my FFDshow configurations and found that VC1 was diasbled, thus the scrambled playback only on my PC, fine on my PS3. I'm not sure how VC1 was disabled, but I'm good now.

Thanks for the reply.

[mrginthehouse@hotmail.com]

After ive decrypted a blu-ray film useing br decrypter and then play it back it comes up
unsorported file.can any one help.

[gonwk]

@ awhitehead,

THANKS for the Great Thread!

G!:)

[james.chung]

Hi! Everyone, i just start to copy the blu-ray movies about two mouths, but i fail many, many, many times, i waste many blank BD-R disc. Finally, i did sucessfully using the two solfwares which is AnydvdHD & Blue Cloner, but After i copy it, i can't play it back on the computer, it's very rare! Only i can play it back on my home Blu-ray player. Anyone knows what's going on? One more thing is that 50GB BD-R DL is a MUST to do the job! Because there's no such solfware to shrink the BD yet. Hopefully, it'll coming soon!

[setarip_old]

@james.chung

Hi!Because there's no such solfware to shrink the BD yet."BD-Rebuilder" will compress BluRay discs to either FULL (including menus and extras) or movie-only versions that can be burned to any size BluRay media and/or DVD5 and DVD9, for playback on both standalone players and PC software players...

[james.chung]

@setarip_old

How are you doing? I have another problem, i just brought a Mr. & Mrs Smith BD, but i cannot make a copy using both Blue Cloner & DVDFab with anydvd HD work in the background, The DVDFab just shut down everytime it reading the disc, and the Blue Cloner just make a copy, but only show the preview and main menu, it cannot play the movie. All other BD movie i have, so far it didn't give me any problem. Any idea? by the way, i didn't intall the BD rebuilder yet, i tried before, but i can't install it sucessfuly for some reason. Anyway, hope you can help me, or anyone who read this message. Take care! And thank you very much!!!!!!

[setarip_old]

@james.chung

Hi!i just brought a Mr. & Mrs Smith BD, but i cannot make a copyAs of today, a properly and completely installed "MakeMKV" (including the most current "SVQ" folder and files) should by itself (No need for "AnyDVD") be able to rip the "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" BluRay directly to .MKV...

[neuron2]

@james.chung

Please start a new thread for your problems. Don't pollute info stickies!

[starscomeout]

Hi All,
I have not ripped any of my Blu-ray or HD DVDs to hdd as of yet, but have a large number of standard DVDs ripped to hard drives, which was done with using DVD-shrink. I now want to start ripping my HD and Blu-ray movies to hdd. I have on order, yet to arrive, a LG Blu-ray/HD combo drive. I am finding it a little confusing to what software I should be using to rip both my HD and Blu-ray movies with, and what is good software I should be using to play back the ripped files? I have read the starting of this thread, but I am not sure if it is out of date or not since it was started in 2007, so I would appreciate any help/advice that anyone could provide me.

Best Regards,
Don