*quality... I wonder if this works on Blu-Rays.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by blankfist.

I like to lick the bottom of the DVD and then smell them.

>> ^deathcow:

I find decoding the content, followed by making a new disc without them, to be very efficient.


Any loss to the image/sound quality when you do this?

and they wonder why people download stuff

>> ^garmachi:

>> ^deathcow:
I find decoding the content, followed by making a new disc without them, to be very efficient.

Any loss to the image/sound quality when you do this?


I'm going to go ahead and assume yes... unless he's using double-layer DVD-Rs to burn onto, there's going to be compression required. Most DVDs are 6 or 7 GB, while the common single-layer DVD is 4.7 GB.

Unless you run it from hard disc using windows media player and the My Movies addon. Keep the size and the quality.

I find it amazing they expect you to deal with this nonsense when 'acquiring' a simple movie for free without all this fuss takes all of 10 minutes with an internet connection. And yet they wonder why they're having no luck curbing piracy.

>> ^blankfist:

quality... I wonder if this works on Blu-Rays.

nope. bluray players have much more control over preventing you to skip that crap

looks familiar
http://blog.glitner.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/GxzeV.jpg

I usually just break my dvds open to get the batteries out

>> ^deathcow:

I find decoding the content, followed by making a new disc without them, to be very efficient.


So you buy software that can defeat the latest DVD DRM, buy dual layered DVDs, rip and burn for the better part of an hour, then replace the commercial DVD with the one you made. And that's easier than pressing three buttons?

INT. OFFICE OF BIG MEDIA INC. CEO HUGH TWIT, ESQ.- DAY.

GOON, 30, barges into office. HUGH TWIT, 55, pushes aside his mountain of cocaine and turns to watch the goon.

GOON: "Sir! Sir! Terrible news! There are people watching our movies and not paying for it!"

TWIT: "This is an outrage! I want you to get some sticks and go beat up the people at our cinemas."

GOON: "Yes, sir!"

FADE OUT

FADE IN, INT. OFFICE OF HUGH TWIT, ESQ.- EVENING

GOON barges in. TWIT, wiping his nose, turns to look.

GOON: Sir! We beat up the paying customers at the cinemas, as per your orders. It's strange, sir, it didn't seem to work! People are still watching our movies without paying! And, it even seems some of the people who used to pay no longer want to! Something about not liking the stick-beatings. What do we do now, sir?

TWIT's nose begins to bleed.

TWIT: Goddamnit, what's wrong with these people? Listen, here's what I want you to do: Get bigger sticks. That should do the trick. And set up booths selling padding at the cinema front doors.

GOON: Sir, yes sir!

FADE OUT

>> ^entr0py:
>> ^deathcow:
I find decoding the content, followed by making a new disc without them, to be very efficient.

So you buy software that can defeat the latest DVD DRM, buy dual layered DVDs, rip and burn for the better part of an hour, then replace the commercial DVD with the one you made. And that's easier than pressing three buttons?


It usually isn't just for bypassing previews. I back up all of my DVDs on an external mirrored hardrive. Besides protecting against scratched dvds, I can watch any of the movies from any computer in the house over the wireless network without having to keep up with the physical DVDs.

There is plenty of free software that bypasses DRM, and cutting out previews and unwanted extras reduces the size noticably. The only way the process would take close to an hour is if the video is being compressed (calculation intensive). If it's a straight copy then it takes less than 20 minutes and only requires user input at the very beginning.

Unfortunately, you are both breaking the law. Specifically the DMCA (digital millenium copyright act), which states that you cannot circumvent any encryption on media. Even if it seems like "fair use", or you say "but I own the DVD!" - doesn't matter. This law is poorly worded for the consumer, and only crafted to support lawsuits by the large media studios. Even the simple DeCSS code used on DVD, which was beaten within months, counts as encryption, so "ripping" DVDs is therefore illegal. CopyLeft was sued for printing t-shirts with the DeCSS source code on them. It also brought about a case of the first "illegal prime number".

(I suppose if you are preserving the DeCSS encryption on the ripped-to-hard-drive copy it might be a legal backup falling under fair use, but I am not a lawyer)

Anyway, that's why there aren't any legal programs to archive all your movies to hard drive (free and widely available does not equal legal). Which is also why most of those dvd's and blu-rays include a separate Digital Copy that includes a lower res, pre-encoded, DRM'd, version of the movie transferable via iTunes or WMP.

I wish that movies had a separate licenses for the content than for the media. If you saw the movie in the theater, you should get a discount on the DVD (or digital iTunes/etc). If you own the DVD, then you should get a discount on the blu-ray.

My biggest gripe with pure-digital media is the lack of a 2nd hand market. You can't sell used iTunes downloads. (at least not a-la-carte. there was a case of a successful sale of an entire iTunes account transfer on ebay)

>> ^deathcow:

I find decoding the content, followed by making a new disc without them, to be very efficient.


>> ^Psychologic:

It usually isn't just for bypassing previews. I back up all of my DVDs on an external mirrored hardrive. Besides protecting against scratched dvds, I can watch any of the movies from any computer in the house over the wireless network without having to keep up with the physical DVDs.
There is plenty of free software that bypasses DRM, and cutting out previews and unwanted extras reduces the size noticably. The only way the process would take close to an hour is if the video is being compressed (calculation intensive). If it's a straight copy then it takes less than 20 minutes and only requires user input at the very beginning.

AnyDVD will rip about any DVD or Blu-Ray. Most blu-ray are about 26 - 30 GB in size and you can transcode them and write them to a $2.80 BD-R 25 GB platter and they look phenomenal. (Use free BD-Rebuilder software, write with free ImgBurn software.)

That would be, if they are in the US, of course...
Luckily, some of us couldn't care less about DMCA, and can do whatever pleases us with our DVDs.

>> ^spawnflagger:

Unfortunately, you are both breaking the law. Specifically the DMCA (digital millenium copyright act), which states that you cannot circumvent any encryption on media. Even if it seems like "fair use", or you say "but I own the DVD!" - doesn't matter. This law is poorly worded for the consumer, and only crafted to support lawsuits by the large media studios. Even the simple DeCSS code used on DVD, which was beaten within months, counts as encryption, so "ripping" DVDs is therefore illegal.

I watch DVD & Blu-ray on my computer, so I use AnyDVDHD which allows you to skip the BS. Now they need to come up with an easy way to open the DVD package when you buy it. Is it really necessary to have three fucking strips of anti-theft tape on the damn box?

I'm pretty sure this doesn't work... I'll try it when I get home, but I know that the usual behaviour for my Sony DVD player is: Press stop once = Stop with resume where you left off. Press stop twice = Stop with start from disc beginning all over again.

Will try it, but am very dubious.

What are DVDs?

Also works on PS3 Blu-Rays except after the second stop you're ejected back to the system menu, but when you go back to the disc you're right into the movie. (Hooray!)

I can't stand the molestation that's been inflicted upon me for so many years and I'm eternally grateful to be finally free from their greedy claws.

Just tried it... does not work on my Sony DVD player at all. Does exactly what I thought, and that's take me back to the very start of the disc again as 2 stops = forget resume point.

Obviously it seems to work for some people, but it's not universal by any stretch.

Also... some discs actually stop you pressing STOP on their legal screens! Which is the utter height of bullshit.

Hate the forced crud.