Is there an alternative to AnyDVD HD. It's way too freaking expensive. Don't tell me to pirate shit. I'm just looking for something to remove the copy protection from Both HD DVDs and Blu-Rays so I can store them on my NAS.

12/10/2009 6:45:24 PM

HAHA thought this was another RIP thread. Nicely Done.

12/10/2009 7:29:53 PM

I too would be interested in converting a bunch of my old HD DVDs into digital format for distribution over my media streaming network.

12/10/2009 7:50:14 PM

^^That ... heh.

12/10/2009 8:10:19 PM

Currently I'm in a race to rip them all before the 21 day trial of anydvd expires.

12/10/2009 8:16:55 PM

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"Don't tell me to pirate shit."

I assume you meant you didn't want suggestions to pirate AnyDVD but have you ruled out downloading HD versions of the movies you're looking to rip? It would probably take less time to download an already ripped copy than to go to all the trouble yourself. And as long as you keep the original copy of your disc, you'd be in the same boat, legally speaking, that you would be if you were the one ripping it.

12/10/2009 8:27:03 PM

1. My internet connection sucks. I'd never be able to download them because there's no way I could keep up my share ratio on a private torrent tracker.

2. I'd rather have the original DD+ or TrueHD audio streams.

3. Pirating AnyDVD didn't work. It worked for a while, but then it connected to the internet and figured out it was an abused key. Now the key doesn't work anymore (it just says my free trial expired). I deleted the bogus key from the registry and now it's letting me continue the free trial.

12/10/2009 8:42:21 PM

Less convenient, but this works:

DumpHD

Only seems to work on the video stream

12/10/2009 9:59:22 PM

Meh torrents. Those are for people that don't know where to find the good stuff.

And all the rips I download have the full HD audio still included. You can even download full Blu-ray isos if you want EVERYTHING. Most of the time a ~10GB rip gets the job done.

12/10/2009 10:15:20 PM

I'm not paying (usenet) to download shit and I'm sure as hell not gonna download it from rapidshare/megaupload/etc.

12/10/2009 10:21:23 PM

90% of the good private trackers are seedboxed by active scene members. "Usenet" is a far cry from 'the good stuff' -- unless i'm mistaken and you're on gigabit 50PB archive topsites.

^SlySoft.AnyDVD.HD.v6.6.0.3.Incl.Key-iND -- do you want that?

Well, that key might be blacklisted too, but when you don't crack the program you're supposed to block all internet access with at least a software firewall so the updates don't get pushed to it.

[Edited on December 10, 2009 at 10:24 PM. Reason : .]

12/10/2009 10:22:34 PM

I blacklisted it in Windows Firewall. I didn't think it was going to add an exception for itself.

12/10/2009 10:57:51 PM

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""Usenet" is a far cry from 'the good stuff' "

I mean we are still talking about rips of Blu-ray movies right? I'm sure there are bunches of underground torrent sites that contain all sorts of things that aren't easily accessible on usenet, but for 99.9% of everything I ever want, I don't see how you can beat it. Every movie, music album, television show, video game, porno, and ebook you'd ever want gets posted as soon as it's commercially available. And thankfully I'm at a point in my life where I paying $11 a month is worth not having to deal with finding private trackers, begging for invites and worrying about keeping my upload ratio up. All while downloading from a truly anonymous source at the maximum speed my download speed will allow.

I can see how newsgroups might not be for everyone, but I just hate it when you mention downloading a movie and immediately torrents are brought up as if they're the only way to get them. Torrents are only popular because they're idiot proof.

12/10/2009 11:19:51 PM

Usenet is idiot-proof too... it's just not free

12/10/2009 11:39:42 PM

I guess $11 a month is too much of a strain on some people.

12/11/2009 12:24:16 AM

I was saying that's why it's not as popular

12/11/2009 12:41:50 AM

http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm

doesn't crack all blu-ray protections though.

12/11/2009 1:03:07 AM

not free and doesn't do shit to hd dvd

12/11/2009 1:19:19 AM

Give me a hard drive and i'll rip what you want for $2 each. I can do about 20/day. (ripping not encoding)

12/11/2009 9:26:46 AM

SO let me get this straight.

You have the software that does exactly what you want. It works perfectly. And you are bitching about paying for it?

It's like 80 bucks. That's 5 movies. It's not "way too freaking expensive", you are just way too freaking cheap. You want convenience in having your movies on your NAS, PAY THE DAMN PRICE TO DO IT.

12/11/2009 12:24:20 PM

RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE

12/11/2009 12:41:28 PM

No.

12/11/2009 2:51:07 PM

^^^ Go suck a penis. It's 100 EUROS. It cost more than my HD DVD drive and ALL my movies combined. (Did I mention the movies are $1 on eBay?) Yeah they're running a 20% off Christmas promotion, but that's still $100. I could hire someone in China to reverse-engineer the code for $100. Fuck... I could just create images of the encrypted discs and mount them on a virtual drive and play them on licensed software for less.

12/11/2009 3:38:12 PM

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"Give me a hard drive and i'll rip what you want for $2 each. I can do about 20/day. (ripping not encoding)"

This I don't believe. Not for HD DVDs anyway. The drives simply aren't fast enough. Takes about 40 minutes to rip a disc. 20 would take at least 13 hours. Unless you have more than one HD DVD / Blu-Ray drive?

12/11/2009 3:41:38 PM

he clearly can do 20 a day if you just stated 20 could be done in 13 hours

[Edited on December 11, 2009 at 3:42 PM. Reason : asdf]

12/11/2009 3:41:46 PM

I doubt that he would do 20/day for $2 apiece.

12/11/2009 3:46:29 PM

You don't think someone would do something that only involves interaction once every 40 minutes over the span of 13 hours for $40?

You're aware it's still football season right?

12/11/2009 4:32:12 PM

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"Yeah they're running a 20% off Christmas promotion, but that's still $100. I could hire someone in China to reverse-engineer the code for $100. Fuck... I could just create images of the encrypted discs and mount them on a virtual drive and play them on licensed software for less."

It's $92 bucks.

And no you couldn't. And maybe less MONEY, but time is worth money (for some people anyway).

Convenience isn't free, it costs money. If the amount it costs ($92, or $2/disc) is more than you are willing to spend, then you can't afford the convenience. Either way, you bitching about it doesn't make it any different. Pay the money, live happily ever after.

12/11/2009 7:11:31 PM

What is wrong with you? I want to know if there are alternatives.

This is analogous to:
Me: "Microsoft Word does what I need it to, but I'm looking for something cheaper."
You: "Buy Microsoft Office and shut the fuck up."

A reasonable response: "Try OpenOffice"

12/11/2009 7:36:21 PM

Your question was already answered.

My response was more then reasonable.

Quote :

"No."

12/12/2009 12:15:03 PM

Open office is never a reasonable response

12/12/2009 12:42:00 PM

the short is... no... you need to get an old version of any dvd hd free and then you need to get something that can take the dumped video info and convert it to a useable video file again...
i've been looking into it with my mac too because my old windows laptop was my hd-dvd player via xbox360 hd and it fried its graphics card but there really isn't an easy way to do it on a mac at all. so i may install windows on here for that purpose and to run office... cause my demo of ms office MAC was glitchy as hell

12/12/2009 6:34:33 PM

Decrypting is the only hard thing.

Processing the files is easy. EVOdemux to demux the video and audio streams, MKVmerge (which I believe you can get on a mac) to put the streams in a MKV container (cue Noen's bitching about how MKV is only for morons and media pirates).

If you want to transcode, I'd recommend MediaCoder (the CUDA based encoder will transcode 1080p -> 720p at 30fps on my geForce 9800GTX+ versus 10-12fps I get transcoding on my Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.6GHz).

12/12/2009 7:26:56 PM

I'll be more than happy to bitch about how MKV is only for morons in Noen's place.

12/12/2009 8:03:23 PM

Any DVD HD doesn't support 2 HD drives at the same time? OMG WTF BBQ

12/12/2009 10:30:27 PM