PSL Tutorial Now Good Idea?

[ron spencer]

Now that DVD D is no more...has anyne put together a PSL tutorial? That is, what to look for in the IFOs, which the format of a PSL file is etc.?

would be useful

[dirio49]

i double that, i agree now that dvddecrypter will no longer be update it would be nice to know how to make psl files and how to fix the ifos.
thanks

[sweetness]

DVD Decryptor does that now. you don't need to make psl files. if "they" make a new protection it would be something different.

you can look at this (http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?postid=217995&highlight=psl#post217995) on how to make psl files.

[bourtzovlakas]

You are wrong about that....
A few days ago, a new form of ARccOS was identified in new R2 releases, that the latest version could not handle without the use of a .PSL file...

[sweetness]

thanks, for the update.
i love challenges. :)

[dirio49]

what about how to change the ifo?

[cynthia_old]

DVD Decryptor does that now. you don't need to make psl files. if "they" make a new protection it would be something different.

you can look at this (http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?postid=217995&highlight=psl#post217995) on how to make psl files.There was three PSL2 files posted at the DVD Decrypter forum that was not covered in the - sadly to say - latest version.

That link to how to create PSL don't work.

[goober22]

There was three PSL2 files posted at the DVD Decrypter forum that was not covered in the - sadly to say - latest version.

That link to how to create PSL don't work.

It works for me cyn. This is it anyways...


You need DVD Decrypt to ignore errors (tempoary - turn it back on later) and keep track of the sector ranges for each file that is processed. Then you will get errors saying what sectors. This will show you where the dummies are.

In DVD Decrypter you can right click each file for properties to see its start/stop range then write them down. So that when errors show you can see where they are occuring and then write a range about from where the first sectore starts to the begining of a real sectors.

Example lets say VTS_01_0.IFO is located here:
19000-20000

Your first error appears at 18000 and keeps counting like 18001, 18002, 18003, and so on. You can stop at that point of trying to decode it and insert into your own psl to look like this.

17000-17999 / VIDEO_0.BUP (legit)
18000-18999 / Dummie Sectors
19000-20000 / VTS_01_0.VOB

So in this case your would make a PSL file to look like this:

PSL
18000-18999
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Cheers!

TRI0N

[cynthia_old]

Aha, now I know why the link didn't worked - the forum was down yesterday...

Thanks for the reply! :)

[dirio49]

how a guide how to find unreferences sector that a standalone wil never read.
so instead of use putting the drive to tons of hard read errors. we can just look at the ifo and find out the bad sector just LUK did.
regards

[tangoo]

Here a short guide how to find unreadable cells (for example on scatched disks :sly: ):

read DVD with DVDD
in case of error abort and continue with next file
save DVDD logfile
export PSL
in the logfile you find the beginning address of each file
substract beginning block from block with errors and search for this offset in cell list (PGCEdit/Info/PGC)
if error block is in VTS_xx_2(3,4...) substract the beginning block from VTS_xx_1
add the sector adresses of the found cell to PSL file
do this for each error
import PSL file to DVDD
reread files with former errors
look on cells with errors: if playback time is short and entry point sector is much shorter than start sector of last VOBU, then something is tricked. Try to set Entry point sector to start sector of last VOBU or don't jump to these cells. Or delete these cells with VOBBlanker.

After that you may have a disk without errors.

[wildchild77]

Does anyone have a copy of the PSL guide?

[setarip_old]

@wildchild77

Hi!

There's nothing to be gained by creating your own PSL files nowadays, as "RipIt4Me" automates the process as only one step of the several now required for current iterations of "ARccOS" copy protection.

Be that as it may, here's the earlier "How-to":How to create a PSL file for a problematic DVD


Why the need of PSL files for DVD Decrypter?

Not the brightest explanation but:

There are some sectors on your DVD that DVD Decrypter ver 3.5.4.0 can't read due to the fact that the original DVD have a form of copy protection using unreadable sectors that will show up as CRC errors (=read errors - your reader/burner can't read the sectors).
To get those sectors over to your hard disk - they are replaced with dummies (empty sectors/space). The PSL file tells DVD Decrypter where to insert those dummies.
If you play your original disc - your player will not notice those "can't read sectors" because the references in the IFOs makes the player to not use those sectors.
Normally the the next released version of DVD Decrypter used to have the earlier created PSL files included in the software and you didn't needed to use this work-around with manually load the PSL2 files in to DVD Decrypter for older DVDs.

The program is not updated any more and therefore the library of PSL files are bound to grow.
How to create a new PSL file:

1) Change the setting to ignore read errors and also set read error retries to zero.
2) Rip the DVD.
3) Save the log list.
4) Export the PSL file and save it.
5) Open up the PSL file in a text editor and keep the first row starting with '0:'.
6) The row that start with '1:' - insert the range that was reported in the log file as 'Failed to read sector'. Delete the rest of the rows.
7) Save the PSL file.
8) Import the PSL file you have edited.
9) Rip the DVD.