Ripping/Copy protection problem

[jikchung]

Have used DVD2SVCD for quite a while without any real problem til now;
DVD2SVCD can't authenticate the DVD of Space 1999 for ripping. Vstrip also failed. DVD works fine on standalone player. Tried playing the DVD on the PC with PowerDVD and get a copy protection error (doesn't even try to start), also used media player (running WINXP Home) and it runs up to the menu. I can access the special feature menu from here, but if I select an episode media player shuts down. Have never run into an issue like this before so I am not familiar with which tools to try.
Any help appreciated.

Thanks,
Dwight

[markrb]

Which disc? I own the first three box sets of the region 1 NTSC version. If it's in that set I can try it and see if I get an issue.

Mark

[jikchung]

The first disc of the first set. Was starting with "Breakaway". It's the NTSC version region 1.

[chainsaw135]

Just curious if you are able to ripp other dvd's after this dvd has failed?

[jikchung]

Other DVD's rip fine, this one still does not. In my original post I wrote that the DVD could not be authenticated. What actually is happening is that the IFO is found and read but a window comes up "Analyzing Video, please wait....". It's been up for 20 minutes now and nothing else happens. I'll leave it awhile longer just to see.




Success?! After 40 minutes of "analyzing video" It all seems to be working. I'll let it run overnight & see how it turns out.
Thanks to all who took time to read this.

Dwight

[markrb]

I can confirm that the same thing happened to me with that disc. I put in another disc and it came right up, but that one just sits there.

I then tried SmartRipper and it gave me an error also, but after authenticating the drive with WinDVD it worked, but DVD2SVCD still would not.

What version of the Aspi driver are you using? What OS? I am curious if we are using the same Aspi driver and that may be giving us problems.

Disc 2 is doing this as well. I will try a reboot and maybe another Aspi driver.

Mark

[jikchung]

Mark,
WINXP Home (No sevice pack 1), ASPI 4.60 (1021) 9/10/99.
After "analyzing video" for 40 minutes, D2S let me start ripping but I gave up & went to bed after 2 hours.

Dwight

[markrb]

Oh well that theory wen out the window.
I am running Xp, but Aspi drivers 4.71.

Mark

[Mac Sidewinder]

@Jikchung - After "analyzing video" for 40 minutes, D2S let me start ripping but I gave up & went to bed after 2 hours.

Was it actually ripping the dvd or simply spinning the drive? If it was ripping, it must have been having problems reading, or verifying the dvd.

Mac

[jikchung]

Just checked and D2S was actually ripping. I have 2 full VOBs and a partial 3rd on the drive. I'll run it again & just wait as long as it takes.
The discs are in perfect condition, only viewed once. Just never ran across any like this before.
The drive is a LiteOn LTD163D.

Dwight

[jikchung]

First, thanks for the help so far, next:
Got the disc ripped and processed, ripping took quite awhile.
New thing: this disc has 3 episodes represented as 3 chapters @ 52 minutes each in length. Ripped and processed the first chapter, then tried to rip the next 2 for later processing. Each of the other 2 was ripped in about 20 seconds? So I processed them and what do I have but the FBI notice.
Any further ideas about this?

Dwight

[markrb]

Wow this is hard.
I think I would suggest trying SmartRipper.
Normally I wouldn't suggest this, but it has worked for me in the past when the two included wouldn't.
If you use an older version. Preferably before 2.40. It seems that this was when most of the issues started. If not use the oldest version you can find.
To be safe rip the episodes into a temp directory and then have DVD2SVCD rip them from that directory into your final directory. After which time you can erase the temp directory. This has been shown to fix the data stream into a way DVD2SVCD likes better.

Mark

[mordant]

I wasn't able to rip and convert this DVD with DVD2SVCD. I did it manually with DVDdecrypter and TMPGenc. That way I was able to cut the rip into episodes.