Avi.net website "down"

[ricardo.santos]

Hi everyone.

while searching the web today to check if there were updates to some of the tools i use , i noticed the Avi.net website was down, it was strange that the author didnt update avi.net for a while, he got avi.net users used to frequent updates

[Nrmf]

i too was addicted to avi.net but times have changed.

[setarip_old]

Perhaps it's a repeat of an early January problem:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=765473#post765473

[weaver4]

It has been down for over a week now. I hope that does not mean that avi.net is dead.

[ricardo.santos]

The author besides Avi.net had a tool called Pgc.net that if im not mistaken bypassed copy protection on dvds.

could be because of it, remember reading something about it.

[Jacquers]

It would be sad if avi.NET is gone... it is a very good tool.

pgc.NET didn't have any copy protection removal: it's purpose is to copy the main movie (program chain) off a DVD into one big vob on your hdd so that you can convert it with avi.NET. You can do the same thing with DVDDecypter in ifo mode with file splitting set to none.

The author did have a tool called cladDVD.NET that could crack css encryption and copy DVD s to the hdd, but it doesn't have support for newer copy protection like sony arccoss.

[Jacquers]

Good and bad news...

The good news:
The site is back up http://www.clonead.co.uk/

The bad news: still no updates...

[weaver4]

It would be sad if avi.NET is gone... it is a very good tool.

pgc.NET didn't have any copy protection removal: it's purpose is to copy the main movie (program chain) off a DVD into one big vob on your hdd so that you can convert it with avi.NET. You can do the same thing with DVDDecypter in ifo mode with file splitting set to none.

The author did have a tool called cladDVD.NET that could crack css encryption and copy DVD s to the hdd, but it doesn't have support for newer copy protection like sony arccoss.

pgc.NET actually is more clever than that. If you put a DVD with ripguard or arccos into a cheap dvd player it will still play (or even PowerDVD on your PC). This is because it follows the video links and only plays the video from the disk. Programs like DVDDecrypter try to copy all the files and some of the files have problems with them. pgc.Net actually tries to read the VOB files like a DVD player would and generate a large VOB file from the result; much like a DVD player would process it. The thinking is that if a cheap Video Player can read a DVD and get the data then a program on the PC should be able to process the Video the same way; but instead of playing it it will stream it to one large VOB file.

I think this is the same way that Fair Use Wizard works; and this program is flat amazing, it simply can not be fooled by any protection scheme I have seen. But instead of Vob files it generates it own format file called *.fud.