Ripping copy protected DVDs on linux (ripguard, puppetlock, arccos etc)
Unfortunately, you can’t!!! Well, not as far as I can tell, I’ve asked around and scoured the web but it seems there’s no use, there simply isn’t a way to do it on linux. The next best thing is to use DVDFab for windows via Wine (it kind of semi-officially works with Wine).
As I found nothing really solid on google, I thought I’d write this post as it’s annoying when you can’t find anything.
How infuriating! What a great way to encourage people to illegally download things instead of buying them. I wonder when (or if) these movie studios will ever learn that it’s a really dumb idea to stop people having total control over things they buy.
March 5th, 2008 in
Linux | tags: arccos, copy protection, dvd, Linux, puppetlock, rip, ripguard, ripping
You can rip Arccos corrupted DVDs with VLC 100% of the time. DVD95 also works, directly, on some Arccos corrupted disks and if if doesn’t work directly you can use ddrescue to dump an image of the DVD and then use DVD95 on the image.
I have more details available here…
http://wiki.flexion.org/DVDRipping.html
You can also do it with mplayer by dumping the video or sound or both on to the harddrive.
mplayer dvd://x -alang en -slang en -dumpstream -dumpfile filename.vob
mplayer dvd://x -alang en -slang en -dumpvideo -dumpfile filename.vob
mplayer dvd://x -alang en -slang en dumpaudio -dumpfile filename.ac3
this command will dump the entire stream, x is the title number, and you can ofcourse set whatever language settings that are available.
if you need to rip just certain chapter add -chapter x-x to any of the commands.
hope I helped.
This won’t work because of the copy protection! You’ll just get a lot of green, although the sound should come through ok. Remember, I’m not talking about DeCSS.
Did you find a solution to this in the end ?
Nope, as far as I know there still isn’t an easy way around these copy protections unless you use anyDVD or something similar for windows..which *might* run under wine, but probably not.
Vote with your wallet, don’t buy anything with silly DRM on it.
Handbrake worked fine for me – I was able to rip a DVD with copy protection.
Yeah, it’ll get past DeCSS but not many (if any) of the “newer” non-standard copy protections as mentioned in the post. Last time I looked anyway!
arccos is no problem. Xine can play it and will show you the “correct” title and then you can also use mplayer with that number when using dvdnav, e.g. mplayer -nocache dvdnav://17. And then you can mplayer -nocache -dumpstream dvdnav://17