I have been using dvd shrink for over a year now and am finally getting frustrated with the few movies that give me trouble with copywrite protection. I have been trying to figure out how to use the anydvd software and get some of these to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Hi Pagones AnyDVD just runs in the background. Just double click on the red fox and it's on. You'll see this in the bottom right hand of your screen: You can set AnyDVD to 'show information windoe for new media'. Right click on the red fox go to settings>prorgram settings to select. When this window pops up this let you know that AnyDVD has read the disc Shrink is now ready to do it's thing. Doesn't take long for AnyDVD to read the disc.
Binkie7, you seem to know quite a bit 'bout these backup business. I have had "anydvd" for a long time for never used it. I just click on it & it gave me a msg: "AnyDVD disabled for drive X" (X=any drive). What gives?
@Pagones What movie and what version of AnyDVD are you using? Every so often AnyDVD won't be able to handle a new copy encryption, but by 3-4 days after release AnyDVD will have it fixed. Saw3 was one of those movies and another I can't remeber because it was so long ago. AnyDVD is still the best IMHO. Edit: And even AnyDVD and Clone DVD2 were able to do just the movie the day it came out, just not the entire movie. It was fixed. All the free stuff except ripit4me, balked also. @frutsvil Open AnyDVD and select Drives and then Selection in that window the drives which you want to use should have a check by them to enable their use.
nothing to learn really. the best thing to do , is to add it to your "start-up" menu. that way you get notification of any update imediately(and don't need to dub-click on the icon when u want to use it) good luck
narcismo There is nothing to learn about AnyDVD, except that it has a ripper function. You just make sure the red fox head appears in the tray next to your clock. Put in DVD and watch for it fade and come back to red. Use Shrink like usual. If doesn't work give them some days to fix it.
garmoon, .....solid! it also has a setting for ripping to ur hard drive...which, by the way, has seemed to solve some of the copying problems (with movies like saw 3 and open season), i'm not sure why. maybe it's a cleaner rip?(as opposed to using it "on the fly") can anyone back me up on this? i swear it's true!
narcismo The ripper function I spoke of is the one that rips to the HDD. When used with Shrink, clonneDVD and recode their rippers are used not AnyDVDs. There are very few instances that I actually use AnyDVD's ripper.
Yeah I too don't use AnyDVD ripper much at all - from what I recall it uses an older version of FixVTS in it. So many be a cleaner copy but doing movie & menu only or unchecking what you don't want including the blank titles in CloneDVD may just be giving you a cleaner copier What did you use like Shrink or CloneDVD on the ones you mentioned that gave you a problem and you used the AnyDVD ripper & it worked? Just curious. I haven't tried the AnyDVD ripper part recently mostly cause of the older version of fixvts thing. So would be good to know.
I think the thinking around here is if you can make a back up that plays and you can copy it, then noone will argue about the way you did it because you were successful, one click or 15; doesn't matter if you're happy!
