Comments on: Ripping copy protected DVDs on linux (ripguard, puppetlock, arccos etc)

By: Se7ensnakes

Se7ensnakes — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:00:25 +0000

trying to copy Transformer 3, with no luck, it crashes K9copy, KB3, Handbrake, VLC media. Thoggen and Acidrip just give you error messages. Libcdcss2? does no good either. I will work on it…

By: Hans

Hans — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 01:57:10 +0000

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

By: admin

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:43:03 +0000

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!

By: Sune

Sune — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:46:27 +0000

Handbrake worked fine for me – I was able to rip a DVD with copy protection.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:41:01 +0000

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.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:23:54 +0000

Did you find a solution to this in the end ?

By: admin

admin — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:01:17 +0000

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.

By: sadklown

sadklown — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:11:02 +0000

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.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:18:09 +0000

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