DVD2HDD - the DVDDecrypter for Linux (0.3-0 out. test it with your distro)

[Trespasser]

Amnon82,
Sorry if this has been answered before, but does your creation deal effectively with Arccos? Also, after a successful dump of a movie can you run the finished product thru DVD Shrink? Thanks. :)

[Amnon82]

No ARccOS. It is based on vobcopy, which can't handle that. I don't think there is any linux tool which deal with ARccOS atm. If you know one, tell me.

btw. I installed Dreamlinux 2.1 which is also based on debian. I'll tell you how DVD2HDD works there.

[r0lZ]

The PSL PgcEdit plugin can help you identify and/or analyze an ARccOS protection, and even create a PSL file for DVD Decrypter.
PgcEdit is Linux-compatible, but I have never tried the PSL plugin under Linux. I think DVDD works fine under wine, so the plugin should also work.

Anyway, it is not really difficult to rip an ARccOS protected DVD. The ripper must simply have a way to replace the unreadable sectors by padding stuff. Cleaning the DVD so that it is readable in any app is more difficult, but that process doesn't have to be included in the ripper. Cleaning the DVD manually with PgcEdit (and the PSL plugin) is not really difficult, but requires some knowledge.
Unfortunately, there are also other protections that the PSL plugin cannot handle. The ripper has to take care of the messed up file system pointers, and/or missing IFO, BUP or VOB files.

[Amnon82]

and thats what vobcopy can't do, so DVD2HDD can't handle ARccOS-Protection atm. Maybe later ;)

btw. 0.2-10 is out.

What I need is some feedback from you guys. What features you want or missed in 0.2-X.

Here is a list of new features I'm planing for 0.3-X:

- close function
- shutdown function
- batch function (to copy more than one DVD - if you have 2 drives for expl.)

[mod]

Today I tried installing on Ubuntu64 and I get this error when launching:

Syntax error in project file.
Cannot preload libraries: Success
sizeof(CLASS) = 256 !
gbx: Swapping archive
ERROR: #1: Out of memory
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


Version is 2-10, that works perfectly on Ubuntu32. The needed packages are all installed.

[Amnon82]

I uploaded 2-11 today. Since I use Ubuntu 6.10 32bit the package-generator of gambas 1.0.16 is broken somehow, so I uploaded a TAR-Archive instead. Take a look at the readme.

@mod: gambas is 32bit. Seems it won't work on 63bit.

[LoloMc]

Version is 2-10, that works perfectly on Ubuntu32. The needed packages are all installed.

Hello everyone,

For me, it doesn't work :( (Ubuntu 6.10 : 32 bits with an old Jurassic Park 3 region 2 PAL disc)
I'm not very good with Linux so I try to install 2.11 but it is not working

BTW, with the 2.10 release, the error is below
"This application has raised an unexpected error and must abort.
[6] Type mismatch : wanted Integer, got Null instead. Mainform.?.0"

Destination folder is not empty : I can find several files inside. But what is very strange is that the error is coming before copying files on the HDD. I have the VTS_01_0.VOB on the HDD wich is 295 Mb on another VTS_01_1.VOB.partial wich is 36 Mb
I forgot that those 2 files were correctly decrypted

Amnon82 : Any hint or something I should do would be very appreciated. Please remember that I'm not a Linux GURU. I'm teaching everyday

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[Amnon82]

Download the older version 0.2-9 form my homepage. Seems again the progressbar.

[LoloMc]

Download the older version 0.2-9 form my homepage. Seems again the progressbar.

Amnon : that's it ;) it is working now
Do you wish to add something against ARCCOS ? Would be really great... (Just in case, RipIt4Me doesn't work for me with wine, but FixVTS is working very well)

Thanks

[LoloMc]

The PSL PgcEdit plugin can help you identify and/or analyze an ARccOS protection, and even create a PSL file for DVD Decrypter.
PgcEdit is Linux-compatible, but I have never tried the PSL plugin under Linux. I think DVDD works fine under wine, so the plugin should also work.

Anyway, it is not really difficult to rip an ARccOS protected DVD. The ripper must simply have a way to replace the unreadable sectors by padding stuff. Cleaning the DVD so that it is readable in any app is more difficult, but that process doesn't have to be included in the ripper. Cleaning the DVD manually with PgcEdit (and the PSL plugin) is not really difficult, but requires some knowledge.
Unfortunately, there are also other protections that the PSL plugin cannot handle. The ripper has to take care of the messed up file system pointers, and/or missing IFO, BUP or VOB files.

Hello r0lZ,

This is what I did : just in case you want to know. I have the Windows version of PGCEdit working under wine... (If you want to know why I don't have the Linux version : simple : when I double clic on it, nothing is happening!)
DVDDecrypter is working very well also (but only if I configure wine in Windows NT4.0)
So I tried to install the PSL plugins for PGCEdit just to see if it could generate a PSL file : doesn't work at all.
Seems to be a problem when trying to access to the DVDdecrypter.log or when I try the wizard...

If you're interested in any test, just tell me. I'll do it

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[Amnon82]

@LoloMc: Can you test me 0.2.12 for me? Should be now fixed.
PGCEdit is also a native linux app. Gime a pm and I show you how ;)

[r0lZ]

LoloMc, sorry, I haven't noticed your post before.

As I am not the author of the PSL plugin, I don't know why it doesn't work. But it is true that it needs to set and retrieve some keys in the registry to access DVD Decrypter and its log file. Maybe it's the problem.

I don't understand why you cannot launch the linux version of PgcEdit. Did you use the standalone executable, or the source files? The exe works well on my RedHat system. To execute the source files, Tcl/Tk v8.4.10 or greater must be installed.
In both cases, you have to install wine to use the preview. And you must have write permission on the PgcEdit folder the first time it is run, and after an upgrade.

Amnon82, did you something special to be able to run PgcEdit? If a specific procedure is necessary to run it, please explain it here. I'll add that info on my homepage. Thanks.

[Carpo]

has anyone tried this on slackware ? - i would try it but atm i have no drive in the linux box

[LoloMc]

@LoloMc: Can you test me 0.2.12 for me? Should be now fixed.

Hi Amnon
I've updated to 2.13 and the shortcut does not launch anymore dvd2hdd. If I enter "DVD2HDD" in a terminal, it gives me an error in french : "Exception en point flottant (core dumped)" that's all!


PGCEdit is also a native linux app. Gime a pm and I show you how ;)
Thank you. As r0lZ is speaking French and as my English level is hardly low, I'll ask him a few explanations before.

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[LoloMc]

LoloMc, sorry, I haven't noticed your post before.
No soucy!


As I am not the author of the PSL plugin, I don't know why it doesn't work.
If you don't know... maybe the mad monk is still working on it ?


But it is true that it needs to set and retrieve some keys in the registry to access DVD Decrypter and its log file. Maybe it's the problem.
I will make a complete test if you want (but not this evening) Just ask ;) I'll do it


I don't understand why you cannot launch the linux version of PgcEdit.
Because when I have double clic-ed on it, I had an error message : "no suitable application".
And because the win32 release were working well, I didn't search more...


Did you use the standalone executable, or the source files? I hate sources files

The exe works well on my RedHat system. To execute the source files, Tcl/Tk v8.4.10 or greater must be installed.

It is! In fact, I suppose that I should only "affecter" (en francais tu ne m'en voudras pas!) PGCEdit to Tcl/Tk, that's it ?


In both cases, you have to install wine to use the preview. And you must have write permission on the PgcEdit folder the first time it is run, and after an upgrade.

This is the case


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[r0lZ]

I don't need info on the plugin. I don't support it, and anyway, it is now obsolete. I don't know neither how to contact mad monk, but obviously he has stopped his work on the plugin.

The PgcEdit executable for Linux is a standalone application (but you still need wine for the preview.) Theoretically, all you have to do is to turn on the "executable" permission flag, and double click on it. See the section on installing it under Linux on my home page.

The source files are even a better solution, as you don't need to compile them. Tcl/Tk is a scripting language. To launch PgcEdit with the source files, you have only to type "wish PgcEdit.tcl [optional_dvd_directory]" on the command line.

@Amnon82: sorry to hijack your thread!

[Amnon82]

@r0lZ: No problem at all.
@LoloMc: Are you shure? I installed it on Ubuntu 6.06 and it works fine.
run it in terminal and tell me what happen. This is my message:

X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 147
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 147
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device


... and then DVD2HDD 0.2.12 starts. (The installer claims 0.2.13)
You can also download a RPM and convert it with alien to deb, or extract the source and copy the DVD2HDD-file like in the last release into your folder.

[LoloMc]

@r0lZ: No problem at all.
@LoloMc: Are you shure? I installed it on Ubuntu 6.06 and it works fine.
run it in terminal and tell me what happen. This is my message:

X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 147
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 147
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device


... and then DVD2HDD 0.2.12 starts. (The installer claims 0.2.13)
You can also download a RPM and convert it with alien to deb, or extract the source and copy the DVD2HDD-file like in the last release into your folder.

Hi Amnon,
Please wait until this evening... I'm at work ;)

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[Amnon82]

I can wait. I also posted this build into the german doom forum. That guy who had the same problem as you told me that it works for him.

[Joe Fenton]

Gambas isn't 64 bit clean, so it doesn't work on 64 bit systems (as 64 bit). You need to install the 32 bit packages for gambas.

[amgeex]

Can you post a link to the gambas source? That would be useful, thanks!

[Amnon82]

Normally all sources are on my homepage. I extracted you the one of the latest version: dvd2hdd_0.2-12_all_src.deb (http://home.arcor.de/amsoft-linux-department/files/DVD2HDD-0.2.tar.bz2)

[Amnon82]

Try out DVD2HDD 0.3.0 (SRC (http://home.arcor.de/amsoft-linux-department/files/DVD2HDD-0.3.0.tar.gz), AUTOPACKAGE (http://home.arcor.de/amsoft-linux-department/files/dvdtohdd-0.3.0.x86.package)) and tell me if it works ;)
DVD2HDD 0.3.0+ uses Gambas2! You can download it for debian here (http://archive.daniel-baumann.ch/debian/packages-sponsoring/jose-redrejo-rodriguez/gambas2/1.9.46-1/)


* Sun Dec 31 2006 amnon <amsoft@gawab.com> 0.3-0
- needs Gambas2
- Install Guide (http://autopackage.org/docs/howto-install/)
- ported to gambas2 (qt-project)
- fixed some bugs
- please test it if it works for you with gambas 1.9.46a

[Amnon82]

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/8522/dvd2hddah6.th.png (http://img502.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dvd2hddah6.png)

... seems Gambas2 displays DVD2HDD 0.3.0 smaller than Gambas does it with DVD2HDD 0.2.X. You have to install kcontrol to get it displayed well.

[WalterK]

Unfortunately i couldn´t get 0.3 to run because gambas2 is so newi ran into dependency issues when trying to install the deb files and dev issues when i tried to compile from source.
Gambas2 is just too new without backporting.
By the way i am on Ubuntu Edgy Eft.

[Amnon82]

0.3.0 is only a convert of 0.2.12 to gambas2. If you can run 0.2.12 it will be the same. There are no program changes at all (only to run it from Gambas2). It is only a try. Maybe I'll convert DVD2HDD to Pascal. BTW. Ubuntu hasn't it in the Distro. I mean gambas2. Only Debian has it. Maybe some RPM-Distros.

[Amnon82]

Seems I forgot Scatty, the coder of LXCopy totally. I used two functions from his source code 1:1. Grap here the proper source: DVD2HDD-0.2.12-PROPER-SRC (http://home.arcor.de/amsoft-linux-department/files/DVD2HDD-0.2.12.tar.gz)

Without Scatty I won't be able to do the proper drive detection.