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I have just got myself "The Avengers" DVD, and it seems Paramount has implemented some new "bad sector" copy protection on the disks, makes me glad I didn't splash on the other movies (Captain America, et all).

Do anyone know how to rip these disk and/or play them on Linux? I'm busy reading the suggestions blurted by Google, but so far have no working solution.
 
I don't know much about copy protection but I've used dvd shrink on quite a few dvd's and never had any issues.
 
I just do it via dvdfab on a windows vm. Have not really found anything for linux.
 
Hanbrake never failed me before, but since Captain America Paramount implemented a new "bad sector" protection algorithm resulting in libdvdnav thinking the disk is corrupt. So everything relying on libdvdnav will fail, vlc, mplayer, xine, transcode, handbrake...

Some people claim success with a patch I cannot find, others just use DVDfab like ponder mentioned.
 
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This frustrates me as I only buy originals and have over 100 DVDs for the kids. I'm thinking of going uncapped and then finding torrents for the all movies I got
 
cbrunsdonza said:
This frustrates me as I only buy originals and have over 100 DVDs for the kids. I'm thinking of going uncapped and then finding torrents for the all movies I got
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This is exactly how I felt!

I wanted to see the extra features, and maybe some bonus footage, but now it is easier just pirating the thing.
 
Yip....I had the same problem with The Avengers. I always watch DVD's in bed on my laptop with headphones. It kept on crashing VLC. Then I tried handbrake to see if I could play it if I rip it. Crashed Handbrake also.
 
Why not use a home entertainment system? That is where you normally put those dvd's/BRDs without need to rip :confused:
 
MyWorld said:
Hanbrake never failed me before, but since Captain America Paramount implemented a new "bad sector" protection algorithm resulting in libdvdnav thinking the disk is corrupt. So everything relying on libdvdnav will fail, vlc, mplayer, xine, transcode, handbrake...

Some people claim success with a patch I cannot find.
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Fire a mail off to John Stebbins (From Handbrake, I think he created the patch) and ask him to point you in the right direction or get hold of him on the mailing lists. Nice helpful dude.

Also have a look here,
http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-149468.html
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/dvdnav-discuss/2009-January/000955.html
 
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Pr⊕phet said:
Why not use a home entertainment system? That is where you normally put those dvd's/BRDs without need to rip :confused:
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I only have PC's, no home entertainment system, my PC doubles for this. Even I had such a system I rip ALL my DVD's and CD's and store the original disks in near mint condition.

:p

I got makemv to rip the DVD. Thanks for the suggestion Hennie!
:D
 
ponder said:
So you went over to the dark side to do this.
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Nope, makemv has a native Linux client. It is a paid for app but they have an evaluation copy, 52 days or some such. Just out of interest I'm going to troll the handbrake mailing list to see if there is a "free" way of doing this.
 
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