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Playing copy protected dvds on your pc?
Messiah
Failed Experiment
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Well I bought this dvd film, and it wont play on my pc because of copy protection. Anything I can do to bypass this?
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Thats my two cents:)
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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Messiah [/i]
[B]Well I bought this dvd film, and it wont play on my pc because of copy protection. Anything I can do to bypass this? [/B][/QUOTE]
Could you go into detail? Are you using PowerDVD?
Let me guess....you have an nVidia card with TV-out capability and you can't play DVDs because of it? (If so, I highly recommend downloading any of the latest detonator drivers as they've fixed that glitch....took the lazy assholes long enough.)
That being said....I suggest you google up "DVD Decrypter". Its a free tool that will remove all copy protection and copy the entire DVD onto your hard drive as an ISO. Then you can just use Daemon Tools to mount the image into a virtual CD/DVD drive and play it with your DVD viewing client of choice. This is quite legal since its covered under the fair use clause of the copyright act. :)
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Vertigo1 [/i]
[B]Could you go into detail? Are you using PowerDVD?
Let me guess....you have an nVidia card with TV-out capability and you can't play DVDs because of it? (If so, I highly recommend downloading any of the latest detonator drivers as they've fixed that glitch....took the lazy assholes long enough.)
[/b]
This is not it, I do use Powerdvd (and other dvd players), but I have a Xabre card.
[b]
That being said....I suggest you google up "DVD Decrypter". Its a free tool that will remove all copy protection and copy the entire DVD onto your hard drive as an ISO. Then you can just use Daemon Tools to mount the image into a virtual CD/DVD drive and play it with your DVD viewing client of choice. This is quite legal since its covered under the fair use clause of the copyright act. :) [/B][/QUOTE]
Hehe, since I only have a 6GB harddrive since the other one went byebye, unfortunately this is not an option.
[B]Having to rip the entire DVD just to watch a movie would be a rather lengthy and unwanted process. [/B][/QUOTE]
Lengthy?! Dude, I can rip an entire DVD in 10 - 15 minutes. Thats with EVERYTHING.
[B]Yeah, but that's 10 to 15 minutes in which you could be watching the movie. [/B][/QUOTE]
Yes, but after that you can watch it at any time and not have to use the disk, and you can choose to leave stuff out like another version of the film (some DVDs have both WS and FS on the same disk), commentaries, other languages, subtitles, etc... That can drop the size dramatically.
By any chance is the problem you're having related to something about your card having TV-Out?
[B]Yes, provided you have the hard disc space and the desire to fill it up entirely with movies in DVD format. [/B][/QUOTE]
Well, hard drives are dirt cheap these days. Hell, Maxtor drives with their rebates makes it well worth the money. I paid $99 (after rebates) for my 160GB drive a couple months ago and I absolutely LOVE it! :)
Also some IBM's harddisk series were called "Deathstar" instead of Deskstar.
Todays disks sold as IBM are made by Hitachi and those seems to be more reliable.
Use this. (and put data of your own harddisks there also)
[url]http://www.storagereview.com/map/lm.cgi/survey_login[/url]
Samsung and Seagate have lowest noise levels if someone needs harddisk to computer which runs around the clock. (and especially if computer is in same room where you sleep)
I rip my DVDs, then re-encode them at 1/4 resolution in DIVX with mp3 audio.
2 hours takes up *128MB*, so....now I can watch 4 hours of film from a 256MB CF card in my PocketPC ;)
Add that to the new universal IR remote software...now THAT'S what I call media convergence :)
-R.
[B]Well, reliability of Maxtors aren't too good.[/b][/quote]
Umm...Maxtor makes one of the best hard drives out there. Especially after they bought out Quantum. Quantum drives are like a fucking ROCK! I've got a 170MB Quantum in the other room that has been running ever since day 1...other than the couple of hours it spent offline after I yanked it out of the 486 it was in, and slapped it into a removable drivetray in my dad's system.
Western Digital on the other hand is infamous for high failure rates.
[quote][b]Also some IBM's harddisk series were called "Deathstar" instead of Deskstar.[/b][/quote]
Those were only the 75GXP line, and only those manufactured in Hungary.
[quote][b]Samsung and Seagate have lowest noise levels if someone needs harddisk to computer which runs around the clock. (and especially if computer is in same room where you sleep)[/B][/QUOTE]
Unfortunately, Seagate has issues with drives by a different manufacturer on the same chain. Atleast they did. I don't know if they ever bothered rectifying that little issue. Samsung drives are nice though.
[B]Umm...Maxtor makes one of the best hard drives out there. Especially after they bought out Quantum.[/B][/QUOTE]
They might be cheap and have big capacity, but reliability of those is anything but good, in biggest finnish forum concetrated on PC hardware/software there has been huge amounts of Maxtors with breaking bearings or otherwise dying during last three years. (amount of broken harddisks has reduced much when people have changed to other brands like Samsung and Seagate)
What I heard even some shops are preferring to other brands, because they have had to change so much of broken Maxtors.
I don't know if it might be that harddisks Maxtor sells to Finland are second class factory's junk.
But I wouldn't buy one without mirroring RAID/good back-up system and three year warranty.
And maxtor's have terrible high noise levels compared to others.
[QUOTE][B]Unfortunately, Seagate has issues with drives by a different manufacturer on the same chain. Atleast they did. I don't know if they ever bothered rectifying that little issue.[/B][/QUOTE]
Did you check that StoragaReviews link? [url]http://www.storagereview.com/map/lm.cgi/survey_login[/url]
Todays models of Seagate are one with the top-class reliability.
And also in this finnish forum there has been only few broken Seagates of these current models.
Quantum wasn't that far behind, either. I've lost two of their (SCSI) drives to conroller board damage (most likely, poor ESD protection).
Quantum wasn't exactly the brightest bulb in the fixture: they used gold pads with solder joints at the read/write head.
IMO, the best drives out there right now are IBM (now Hitachi) and WD. Rock solid, and never miss a beat. AFAIK, WD is the only company making decent SATA drives now as well.
-R.
PS: Don't even get me started on Seagate.
Holy crap.
Have I got a bunch of complaints for *those*...
I've had the following fun, HD Wise:
one IBM Deskstar go kaput
three Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40's fail nearly the same time in three seperate systems, out of warranty...
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 80, I believe it is, seems to be on its way out... (Crap, it's my server's main drive)
I'm worried as well because of the DiamondMax 120 in this system. If it goes the way of the Dodo, I'll be in trouble.
[B]They might be cheap and have big capacity, but reliability of those is anything but good, in biggest finnish forum concetrated on PC hardware/software there has been huge amounts of Maxtors with breaking bearings or otherwise dying during last three years. (amount of broken harddisks has reduced much when people have changed to other brands like Samsung and Seagate)
What I heard even some shops are preferring to other brands, because they have had to change so much of broken Maxtors.
I don't know if it might be that harddisks Maxtor sells to Finland are second class factory's junk.
But I wouldn't buy one without mirroring RAID/good back-up system and three year warranty.
And maxtor's have terrible high noise levels compared to others.[/b][/quote]
Funny, all the maxtor drives in every computer in the house, and in every system I've sold would disagree with you. You must be doing something wrong. ;)
[quote][b]Did you check that StoragaReviews link? [url]http://www.storagereview.com/map/lm.cgi/survey_login[/url]
Todays models of Seagate are one with the top-class reliability.
And also in this finnish forum there has been only few broken Seagates of these current models. [/B][/QUOTE]
Until you stick them on the same chain as another hard drive of a different manufacturer. The system will not finish POSTing if you do. The second you stick the other drive on the other chain or disconnect either, the system posts. Seagate makes wonderful SCSI drives, but they're utter shit for IDE. Ever wonder why their IDE drives are some of the lowest priced of all?
I really wish fujitsu hadn't pulled out of the market, they made the best drives.
I got it for free because someone pushed a pin out of the IDE connector. pushed it back in, works fine.
[B]A cellphone with a 2GB HDD? I like that thinking! [/B][/QUOTE]
That kind of storage would be good also on digicam.
I have one 5GB maxtor on older computer. (PC bought in January 1997)
From beginning it has had few about three to five seconds long pauses (and also everything else paused if reading/writing) in time of first hours of use.
Based on what I've read I think that it has been doing thermal recalibration, but in last few years whole system has stopped completely (needed reset) if there was reading or writing going when it starts that "whatever it does".
1999 I buyed 13GB Seagate as OS/main disk for that PC when I also upgraded system otherway. It has been working without any problems.
My main computer has 80GB ATA IV as OS disk. (bought August 2002 with "rest" of that computer/parts)
And that Seagate is very silent.
When I put parts together and booted PC I really had to open the case and check that I had connected cables to disk. :)
Second disk is 120 GB 7200.7 Ultra ATA (8MB cache) which I bought in August 2003.
Like I said I don't know is it that Maxtor has been dumping second class junk to here or what, but in any case I'm personally staying with Seagate or Samsung because of their low noise level. (then I can consider Maxtor if they get noise levels comparable to Seagate and Samsung)
[B]Am I doing something wrong when I haven't had one hdd that has died on me. :) I got 2 Maxtors and both got 3 years warranty. [/B][/QUOTE]
The only hard drives to ever fail in this house are western digitals. :) Word has it they've really cleaned up their act, but I won't trust any data on any of their drives smaller than 10GB (thats when they really had reliability problems).