Problems using Mactheripper

I have beeen trying to back up some of my dvd collection to stop it getting scratched e.t.c but keep running into problems.

I have tried using Mac the Ripper to rip The Constant Gardener & History of Violence, it seems to be working fine, but right at the end of the rip I get an error message saying it has found bad sectors, I then try and burn them to dvd in Popcorn, but the disc is either blank or plays only 2 random chapters?

Any help as I thought the Mac the Ripper & Popcorn or toast method was foolproof for backing up your collection?

I have tried DVDshrink on PC & it seems to work fine on that, so why so many problems on the mac?

I'm having exatcly the same problems..

It takes a life to rip the movie to disk as a Video_TS folder, and in the end, there's a messagem telling me that the disk presented bad sectors, and it may not be playable. In fact, they were not.

Did you get over this issue?

All I can say is this without breaking Forum rules. That is the latest Copy Protection mostly by SONY. Talking about breaking that protection is against the law and so also against Forum rules, but that is why some DVD's are copying and some get the errors. They are bad sector errors which is part of the protection Scheme.

"Bad Sector errors mean one of several things. It's either 1) the disc is dirty, fixed by cleaning it, wiping from the center outwards; 2) the disc is damaged, either live with glitches during playback (improved with MTR 3.0), or find another copy of that movie; or 3) the disc is a recent release with RipGuard copy protection, and you need MTR 3.0 to handle it.

At this time, MTR 3.0 is still under development, and early access is being given to people who donate to support the project."

dtravis7 said:

All I can say is this without breaking Forum rules. That is the latest Copy Protection mostly by SONY. Talking about breaking that protection is against the law and so also against Forum rules, but that is why some DVD's are copying and some get the errors. They are bad sector errors which is part of the protection Scheme.

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thought that ripping your own DVD's were by no means illegal...

So...is it possible to pass by this protection?

andrebnu said:

thought that ripping your own DVD's were by no means illegal...

So...is it possible to pass by this protection?

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Now the rules of the game are even if you own the DVD, you can not circumvent copy protection. That is why it's not allowed to be talked about here on the forums.

I think this thread has been adequately answered, so I will close it to prevent it turning into something that needs deleting.


If the Original Poster thinks that the question needs more answering PM me and I will reopen it.