On Jun 17, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote:
The Ken Burns discs stand out as Not Being Rippable.
Well, have you tried every available ripping tool?
At one point there was a special DVD ripper which a number of PBS
affiliates were using to air movies, usually on Saturday nights,
under license from the copyright owner.
In this case the rip was to a disk array, from which most programs
were actually aired, but I'm sure a rip to a single disk would work
just as well.
MTR still works for many cases, but new disks from distributors like
Buena Vista and Lions Gate are often so heavily protected that these
will not play even on a real set-top DVD player device, although
those same disks will usually play using DVD Player under MacOS X.
But, every Draconian protection method carries with it significant
baggage, and part of that baggage is usually improperly authored
chapters.
When the improperly authored chapter is the infamous "FBI Warning",
then it is probably time to try MTR's "rip main feature only" option.
The rippers have long since been able to accommodate the usual single
decryption key per disk, and most also support a single, but
different, decryption key per main program, and a couple can
accommodate multiple decryption keys per main program, a different
one for each chapter or even for each block.
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