Hi,

I just upgraded my computer and re downloaded DVD Shrink. Everytime I go to back up a Region 4 DVD I get this error message: "CDvdCSS::Read Failed! The reason is: Copy Protection Error - The read failed because the sector is encrypted." Does anyone know why am I getting this now when prior to my upgrade I was able to back up any region with no problems whatso ever and what the solution is? Any help will be greatly appreciated!

hmm maybe cloneanydvd can help u here, with that region protection can be beaten easily!

DVD Decrypter will rip any region DVD's

Yep thats true, kinda makes u think why cloneanydvd even exists

It does a bit.

Mauisa, rip the DVD with DVD Decrypter and you should still be able to compress using DVD Shrink.

or DVD2One of course :-)

Heres some guides to help mauisa -

Copy DVD-9 movie in full to one DVD-R with DVD Shrink
http://www.afterdawn.com/articles/archive/dvd9_to_dvdr_with_dvd_shrink.cfm

Copy DVD-9 movie to a single DVD-R with DVD2One
http://www.afterdawn.com/articles/archive/dvd-9_to_dvd-r_with_dvd2one.cfm

Copy DVD-9 to DVD-R using DVD X Copy XPRESS
http://www.afterdawn.com/articles/archive/dvdxcopy_xpress_guide.cfm

Burning pre-authored DVD-Video using Nero
http://www.afterdawn.com/articles/archive/burning_dvd_with_nero.cfm

just thought id add the last 2 for the record :-)

Thank you all so much for your help. I will see how I go....

i did a search on cloneanydvd,
it dosent seem to exist, your not talking about CloneDVD are you ??

nope cloneanydvd basically aallows you to copy disc of any region

so does CloneDvd

Hi guys & girls,

Ok I tried using DVD Decrypter and it worked on a region 4 DVD that was less than 4.7. BUT, what is frustrating is that prior to me upgrading (I had a Toshiba Satelite Pro note book) to a P4 computer, I was able to back up region 4 DVD's with no errors, no warnings or anything using DVD Shrink. I even tried to do a region 4 DVD which I had already done using DVD Shrink with my lap top last week, where there was no problems, and I did it again with my new computer and I got the error message as per my original post!! Am I missing something on my new PC that my note book had? I would rather use DVD Shrink than DVD Decrypter on DVD's that need compressing. Thanks!

rob12770, nah it had something to do with region protection in some drives!

mauisa, hi again, were u using the same dvd drive?

Hi,
I was using the DVD Drive from the lap top and also the DVD Burner, Sony DRU 510A. The DVD Rom I have now on the new PC is the new Liteon but when I also run the Region 4 DVD via the burner and try to use DVD Shrink same error message, when before I didn't get it. Eeerrgghh!

Hi gang,

I've figured the problem out!! When I had my lap top I was backing up DVD's using the DVD Rom in there for Region 4 and the Sony DVD Burner for Region 1. Because on my new PC both the DVD Rom was set (not locked, thank God) on Region 1 for play back and the burner as well, that is why DVD Shrink was giving me that error message as above. I put a Region 4 movie on the DVD Rom, chose Power DVD to play it back and advised me it is currently set to Region 1 would you like to change it, 4 changes remaining, which I did, opened up DVD Shrink.... and presto! Back up working fine! Maybe this will benefit other newbies in the future. But thanks to all who contributed to my needs, much appreciated!

ah no probs, always glad to see something get worked out :-), good luck now and come again if you have any more trouble, oh and its a computer, so yes, you'll be back ;-) lol