After DVD Decrypter was abandoned, some studios started using bad sector copy protection specifically to defeat old copies of DVD Decrypter. The main ripping program at the time was DVD Decrypter and the author was given a choice of abandoning his program permanently or facing potentially ruinous litigation in the US legal system that had consistently ruled against every decryption program that had faced a legal challenge. Some of the studios started using this about 5 or so years ago. What you are seeing is known as "bad sector copy protection". What Baldrick said is right, but to provide a technical explanation since your few posts indicate you don't participate here much and probably don't know this.
Ripping copy protected dvds mac full#
Has anyone successfully ripped DVDs of this nature? If so, can you suggest a software? Or am I missing a codec or something? VLC plays them fine, but it takes almost 5 full minutes for it to load any of these DVDs, I assume because it is scanning all 99 tracks and finding the right one. However, after ripping the track suggested by this program, or several of the other 40 minute tracks, the video comes up out of order: meaning that when I play it, it acts like it is skipping around to scenes that were patches into the video out of order. When scanned by another application in Linux called Acidrip, the DVD shows to have 99 tracks, and many of them are about 40 minutes long, which is the length of this 1 DVD I am trying to rip.
Ripping copy protected dvds mac windows#
The windows version comes up saying "the disc is encrypted or is a bad copy" or something similar. I posted on a Linux forum and someone told me it was a "structural obfuscation issue"
However, I am running into some problems here, and I am not sure if it is an encryption issue or not.
I purchased the Insanity workout DVDs from and I want to rip them to a digital format so that I can play them on my tablet. For a while now I have been using Handbrake to rip DVDs with my Ubuntu Linux box, but recently I have run into issues with some of these newer DVDs.