I’ve been using DVD Decrypter to rip and backup my DVDs to iPods for years, despite no further developement since 2005.
DVD Decrypter Version 3.5.4.0 (final)
An exceptional tiny application that easily removes the Copy Protection System from DVDs, which enables you to transcode the DVD for mobile device playback. I also use Badaboom, Badaboom is a blazingly fast media converter that formats video files for a variety of devices, including iPod, PSP, iPad, and YouTube, by using your system’s graphics processing unit (GPU). If you have an Nvidia chipset!
DVD Decrypter output 1
So I was a little surprised when I couldn’t backup Disney’s new Alice In Wonderland…
It starts to report Read Errors (Retry 1 etc), but this DVD disc is brand new out of the cellphone wrapping, so it cannot be physical errors on the media, but something is odd, because if you look at the number of files and total it’s repoting 58GB on the disc, this should read alarm bells.
DVD Decrypter output 2
if you continue, the Retry errors increase and eventually, you’ll get an error message below
DVD Decrypter error message when trying to backup Disney's Alice in Wonderland
if you ignore this error message, it will continue to extract the data, but you’ll end up with a 58GB DVD! It would appear that Disney have done something with the layout to confuse DVD Decrypter Version 3.5.4.0 (final). Maybe it’s the Fast-Play, I don’t know, but as I’ve always said software can always be broken with software, so time to try another software product…
Enter DVDFab HD Decrypter, another backup tool which is also FREE.
DVDFab HD Decrypter http://www.dvdfab.com/en/hd-decrypter.htm
Ah, this software does the job nicely, shame I still prefer the simplicity of DVD Decrypter, and it’s has a tiny footprint.
So if DVD Decrypter doesn’t work for you try DVDFab HD Decrypter
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