aspi adapter

[manodivx]

i try and rip with smart rippers and i get the error no aspi adapter available. so i hit ok and then smartripper starts and it then says that some of the files are still locked wutever that means. anyway i try and rip and nothing happens. if anyone knows the prob or what the aspi adapter does and where i can get one please tell me

[Swede]

Read this: Decrypting sticky thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16932)

Edit: At first I just answered nicely even though this belonged to the decrypting forum, then I noticed all you crossposts... Read up on the rules, especially #1 and #8

[manodivx]

im sorry i didnt know i couldnt do that. but can anyone still help me

[x-1/9]

Although I do now have an "APSI layer" up for some of my other software, SmartRipper works without it, I have Windows XP, no apsi, and many, many progs can't "see" my drives without it.

When SmartRipper wants you to "unlock" the drive, it wants you to start up your DVD Player software (usually for about only 1 or 2 seconds) and click play on the DVD player to "unlock" the drive with an Encrypted DVD playing DVD player, to "authenticate" the DVD. That always works. I LOVE Smart Ripper, it's the only ripper that worked in my Windows XP before I got that apsi layer that I'd attach, but that won't work for me right now, oh well.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

If you have to play the disc in software player before you can rip it then its hardly 'working properly' now is it!

Some people see it as a real pain to install aspi, but then look at it this way.... install ASPI once, or have to use the software player every time you want to rip! I know which one I'd prefer!

As for solving your problem manodivx, read the FAQ at the top of the forum. The answer lies in there.

[x-1/9]

The industry invested an unimaginable sum of time and money developing CSS (Content Scrambling System) specificaly to block programs other than what they'll allow. The big limit to it's ability is that the final product HAS to be useable by the consumer: It has to play perfectly in any and every industry standard type DVD PLAYER, software (pc) players included, while still providing the highest possible level of security for their precious copyrights.
In otherwords, It's specificaly designed and updated to thwart the SmartRipper, and other deCSS based rippers, but as long as the player can play it, smartripper can use the backdoor, as a reduntant security breacher, the old trojan horse. It's a briliant fool proof design, and it is working perfectly, if it ever does promt for an unlock. The player has to have the MASTER KEY, so set your Autorun with media to start the player every time it sees a dvd movie, just to unlock the drive, and you won't see SmartRipper complain again.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Authentication is simple. If properly implemented, you should never need to run the player. The ripper should be more than capable of doing it for itself.
The only reason the player works when a ripper doesnt is because it uses either its own local copy of the aspi manager (from its installation dir) or it uses native NT calls - obviously on NT based operating systems only :)
The next version of DVD Decrypter has full support for native NT IO.
There is also the possibility of it supporting another well know/used interface but we'll just have to see how that goes ;)
Either way....its pretty exciting! Well, if you're a sad twat like me :p LOL

[Nic]

Authentication is simple, if properly implemented
Is that a way of calling me stupid? :) (Just Kidding! :D )

Instead of running a software player to authenticate you could just try running my test AuthDVD.exe as linked in the thread in the development forum. It would be quicker & should work just fine (I hope!)

Cheers,
-Nic