Why won't the Simpsons rip???

[twisty2k7]

I have successfully ripped 6 and a half seasons of The Simpsons as backups but I get to season 7 disc 4 and nothing can read it. I even tried a friends disc and same issue so it's not a scratch

I have tried DVDShrink, DVDFab, DVDDecryptor, DVD Free but nothing works. The best I got was for an ISO to be made the size it was meant to be but DVDShrink and DVD Decryptor only recognised a 1mb movie on the disc so still no luck

Any help would be much appreciated

[Ghitulescu]

Try a something more modern ripper ...

[twisty2k7]

Try a something more modern ripper ...

Such as? I've searched google but the ones I'm using all seem to get mentioned the most

[Ghitulescu]

I can't believe google forget to mention you Anydvd ....

[twisty2k7]

It didn't forget, I did sorry. I had a go and that was the program that was able to create an ISO the right size but nothing could read the ISO

[QuantumRand]

Perhaps try MakeMKV? It's my go-to program for most ripping purposes. It'll give you a 1-to-1 copy of the movie and put it in an MKV container. Just about any modern video player will be able to play it back.

[twisty2k7]

I'll give that a try, thanks. Is there any way of keeping it as a .vob so I can keep separate episodes, it's what I've done with all other files so far

[Guest]

It's already in VOB format on your disk. Just fire up AnyDVD and then copy the VOBs to your hard drive.

[twisty2k7]

It's already in VOB format on your disk. Just fire up AnyDVD and then copy the VOBs to your hard drive.

Here's the message AnyDVD gives me when it first scans the disc:

TSSTCORP CDDVDW SH-S223C SB02
Drive (Hardware) Region: 2

Current profile: DVD-ROM
Media is a DVD.
Booktype: dvd-rom (version 1), Layers: 2 (parallel)

Total size: 3532524 sectors (6899 MBytes)

Video DVD (or CD) label: SIMPSONS_S7_D4_F1
Media is CSS protected!
Media is locked to region(s): 2 4!
Video Standard: PAL

Found & removed structural copy protection!
Found & removed bogus title set(s)!
RCE protection not found.
UDF filesystem patched!
Autorun not found on Video DVD.
Removed CSS copy protection!
Found & removed 4 potential bad sector protections!
Emulating RPC-2 drive with region 2!

Looks okay so far I guess. Here's what happens next. After I copy just the 4 VOBs I want and double-click to play one of them:

VLC does nothing, registers no file length, nothing at all
Media Player Classic says: Unable to render the file

I then tried using DVD decrypter to rip the ISO but it tells me that "The disc is not supposed to be protected by CSS/CPPM. Would you like to try and decrypt" I have tried yes to all and no to all with the same problems. And at various points through the rip it tells "On The Fly patching unsuccessful - - Invalid IFO/BUP file

Where am I going wrong? in AnyDVD under feature removal I have all boxes ticked. Is this wrong? Please help!!!!!

[Guest]

The VOBs you copied to your hard drive...can you open them with DGIndex?

[twisty2k7]

The VOBs you copied to your hard drive...can you open them with DGIndex?

I gave it a go but it crashes the program, kept having to close and restart the app. Is there such thing as an unrippable DVD, it's beginning to feel like it! :confused:

[Guest]

Cut the first 50MB of the first VOB using DGSplit, upload it somewhere (mediafire.com), and post the link here.

If you are ripping with AnyDVD, also consider checking their forum and posting there if it is not already known about.

[twisty2k7]

http://www.mediafire.com/?5u3atxd941l3nn4

There's the file as requested. Thanks very much for looking at this for me

[Guest]

The rip is OK. I know the problem. I will test a fix when I get home and post again. There is hope!

[Guest]

Oops, false alarm.

The rip is bad. I saw a sequence end code (00 00 01 b7) early in the file and stopped looking, thinking that was the problem. But then when debugging I saw that I already fixed DGIndex some time ago to ignore sequence end code.

Right after the sequence end code is a padding packet (00 00 01 be) and after that the entirety of the file is just zeros (00 00 00 00 ...).

How did you rip this? It could well be that the ripper is getting confused by the sequence end code, but it seems unlikely. If you used AnyDVD post about it at their forum, citing my analysis.

[7ekno]

Damaged disc, use ISOBuster then AnyDVD ;)

7ek