Thanks for the quick reply Brian. That does make sense.
But how do you locate a specific area on the DVD to drill the hole? Is there a link to a webpage that explains it?

Regards,
John

no -- not that i know of .. i came up with it by myself .. you can figure out the position pretty easy by using % or just trial and error - and always place the blank chapter/title in the same position --

1. Drilling an actual hole will make it unbalanced, won't it? Sounds like a bad idea.

2. If you back up VHS or Laserdisc movies (something I've done quite a bit), you DEFINITELY should do inverse telecine first (i.e., convert back to 24 fps). You then set the 24 fps flag when doing the DVD encode. The difference in quality is not at all subtle. You get a MUCH better encode.

B_JM wrote this:
....i have 1000's and 1000's of dvd's and laser disks .. many not available any longer and Ive backed up many of the laser disks to dvd now...

- All right, all right....I was talking about comercial VHS tapes, not really those "treasures" we don't find anymore.
About what Macrovision has done to DVD Decrypter: I am positively sure DVD Decrypter will find another home on the web.

johnmeyer - since i'm the one that encoded several films TO laser disk, I certainly know about telecine .. but I can tell you the pattern we use is not a nice neat 3:2 pulldown -- if fact it can be a real 30fps interlaced or somewhere inbetween and not constant ... so a simple inverse telecine doesnt always work ... sometimes it does ..

anyway - the hole i was talking about was so small that it would not effect balance ..

Drilling a hole can't save, because some backup programs (DVD Decrypter, ISOBooster, ets) can replace corrupted sectors with logical zeros.
And there are no way to made full copy protected DVD.
But the most simple way to make some protection - put to the end of project black video not linked from menu. It must encrese project size for 100-200Mb upper then blank media capacity. During burning such project set overburn function. It gives a mistake at the end of structure. Such DVD will play correctly, but gives serious problems during copying.
But another side: as for me, I will say to all my friends (they - to another friends) " This is a man, who made for me a copy protected DVD! Let's never work with him again!"

the hole works with DVD Decrypter because the reader can not physically read past it ..

at least in the 2 readers i tried it in -- not a perfect method and no warrenty about it even playing in all players - just an interisting experiment ..

If you mean "isobuster" , it does not work with even sony protection .. "isobooster" is (in english anyway) is an old program not supported for maybe 3 or 4 years, at least the one im thinking of - and it never was for ripping anyway . There may be another program called that though ..

Sorry for my bad english.
IsoBuster. Last version 1.8 released May 28, 2005
Support all CD and DVD formats, including DL.
This is a way to copy corrupted disk to HDD and "decrypt" it.

Kentwolf,

Saw your post about DVD Decrypter. Needed something like that exactly to re-edit a short DVD that I authored about year ago.

So I've got DVDD and I am following along until I get to the Ripping section. Sorry, but I just don't see an Input Tab on the main program window. I am using version 3.5.4.0. Do you mean the vob, ifo and bup files listed on the right side in the main program window??

I know I am missing something small here and would appreciate your help to clarify what am doing wrong.

Thanks,
Galen

After you do the settings as instructed, quit, then restart DVDD.

You will be in IFO mode.

To the right, you will see the selected PGC...I believe one of the settings is to "select the main pgc." ("movie".)

Again, check that you are in IFO mode.

http://www.dvddecrypter.r8.org/

You see B_JM? I was ALMOST sure about DVD Decrypter.. ;)
It's nice to know it has found a new home on the web (if it's not fake). Welcome back DVD Decrypter! Congratulations! Anyway, is it for real?

same version -- but owner is not real UKLIGHTING , and is in germany ....

doubt site will be up for long ..

You have to search around a little. The options to set up decripting any way you want are there. You can select one title, movie titles only, or all titles. As I recall I had to do some right clicking and searching through tabs. I ended up with copy of video streams and audio demuxed into AC3 file. Make sure you check stream processing. If you want to bring into Vegas make sure to change audio to wave file. You will have to bring video and audio into Vegas seperatly. I imported directly into DVDA directly by renaming video file to mpg and importing AC3 audio to timeline. It worked fine. If you are using Encore you don't have to do this as Encore will accept in demuxed state (I think it is mv2 file or something like that). I then reauthored my DVD with requested changes. Note, I only use this to reauthor my own DVDs or DVDs that are legal. I will post again with more detail when I get on my video computer where I can refresh my memory.

"Macrovision Files Lawsuit Against Sima and Interburn's DVD Copying Products

Macrovision Corporation announced today that it has filed suit against Sima Products Corporation ("Sima") and Interburn Enterprises Inc. ("Interburn"). The lawsuit charges that Sima's "Video Enhancers," which are principally used to allow consumers to make unauthorized copies of copyrighted DVDs, infringe Macrovision's patented copy protection technology and also violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"). These products include, but are not limited to, products currently marketed under the names CT-1, CT-100, CT-2, CT-200, and SCC-2. The lawsuit further charges that Interburn products infringe Macrovision's intellectual property and the DMCA."

Incidentally, isn't Macrovision on VHS an analogue technology? Is it even covered under the DMCA?

reports are saying that they want to or need to go after most TBCs also, plus the fact that many many dvd players are able to shut macrovision off - they should after get after sony , as Hi8 also breaks macrovision, also canopus, laird, DPS, decklink and others - as they all break macrovison in one or more products. ..

Incidentally, isn't Macrovision on VHS an analogue technology? Is it even covered under the DMCA?

The Macrovision on VHS tapes is obviously analog, diddling (technical term) with the sync pulses. The company Macrovision also produces technology for DVDs which sets a flag that causes the DVD player to output an analog signal that is screwed up in the same way as VHS tapes, so that it can be played, but not easily recorded on video recorders. Also, any attempt to feed this DVD analog signal to a DV camcorder will result in a message stating that the input signal has been copy protected.

Read about DVD Macrovision here:

Macrovision DVD Copy Protection

yea - i know what it is very well ... I was just being factitious, but thanks