Help with HITCH

DVDFab Express is simply the easiest way to copy a DVD movie. Just insert the movie and a blank DVD then press Start. Your entire movie - including menus, trailers and special features - is copied to a single DVD with just one click, and everything happens automatically.

DVDFab Decrypter is a simple version of DVDFab Express. It copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections (CSS, RC, RCE, Macrovision, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) while copying.

We all know DVD Decrypter is a great DVD ripper, why we need another one? Well, the reason is DVD Decrypter's development has stopped, so it will not support newer version of Sony ARccOS protection automatically. Fortunately, DVDFab Decrypter is always updated to support latest protection, so you can backup your DVD movies to hard disk as before. For example, Movie 'Closer' cannot be copied by DVD Decrypter automatically, but with the help of DVDFab Decrypter, you can copy it without problem.

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Hi creaky,

DVD Decrypter cannot copy Closer automatically, except you find and download a .PSL file to tell DVD Decrypter how to bypass the bad sectors.

Best Regards,
Fengtao

 

Slightly off topic but where is BBmayo? He is always here at some point with some helpful advice. As for Hitch the answers lies below inside my post.

 

@dvdripdvd

Read this thread on bbmayo

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/184970

 

I was reading through the replies to this topic and was a bit taken back by some of the advice. First, I can't understand why anyone would use ISO mode for anything what so ever. It make no sense to convert from File Mode (which the disks are formatted in) to ISO mode. That conversion is just asking for trouble. If you just stick with the defaults (File Mode) in Decrypter and Shrink, you will have No Problems with either of the programs.

Second, I have never found a New Movie Disk that DVD Decrypter could not copy to my Hard Drive properly. I have, however, found a few disks that my DRIVES could not read all the way through. Normally, at least One of my Five Drives will read even a disk with bad factory flaws, but sometimes none of them will. The fault has NEVER been DVD Decrypter. Given a good disk, it will ALWAYS read the material and break the protection. It has never, EVER failed to do that in the two years I have been backing up DVD's. with that program, and I have well over 400 titles in my collection. I use it "Exclusively" as my first step in the backup process.

The Never Fail process is as follows

1. Copy the entire disk to your Hard Drive with DVD Decrypter.
2. Select your files from the VIDEO_TS folder and then compress them using DVD Shrink
3. Burn the resulting VIDEO_TS folder to your backup disk using Nero.

Folks, It's just that simple, and it will NEVER fail to produce a working copy of your movie.

I have used factory second, bargain basement disks of the worst possible kind and STILL produced backups that played perfectly. I don't make a habit of using cheap disks, but I have used them with very good results.

People, just do NOT try to over complicate the copy process with steps that are just flat NOT NECESSARY. With the three programs, Decrypter, Shrink and Nero, the process is mindless childs play; really...

- Mike -

 

Hey. I am having problems with Hitch. I have the latest version of AnyDVD and I use DVD Shrink to get the movie only off of the DVD disc. After I do that, I go in and change the extension to .mpg so I can manage it easily. But, when I open any of the VOB files I changed to MPG in Windows Media Player, Winamp, etc. They all are in French. I can't figure out how to fix this. Anyone know? Thanks

 

I am pretty sure I have shrunk the right files because if I open them in PowerDVD they are in English. What I wanted to do is make these files into MPG or WMV. I don't have a DVD burner. I just want to get the DVD's on my HD and share them with my friends or online. Has anyone else had this language problem?

One other question. If I change the extension to .MPG and I open it in Windows Media Player or Winamp. There is a watermark on the top right of the movie. Is there any way to convert files to MPG format without that watermark? Thanks alot. Sorry for all the questions.

 

Hey All,

I've only seen 1 post thus far saying that the movie HITCH will not even be recognized in their COMP. DVD and well I'm having the same problem. I have a DW-D22A Sony Dual layer. I've looked around and have no firmware updates for it so I guess either it's unsupported or it's up to date. Anyhow when I stick the movie in my drive it just cycles and then nothing. ANY help would be greatly appreaciated.

BTW in some of the earlier posts I read off topic discussions on DVDFAB and I'm gonna add my two cents. DVDFAB is a lot like Xcopy but I've found problems with it burning BE COOL and had to resort to the big guns of Dycrpter and Shrink. BUT FAB is still a great tool and get's the job done most of the time!

Thanks in Advance!

 

let's, at least something cleard, "hitch" can be back up and burn, the protection in it might be difficult to break, but it is doable.

 

Thanks everyone for the response. I ended up doing what elizerroj posted. I closed Anydvd and used Decrypter. I then used my favorite burner. As far as Muchu's posts, I always try to backup a movie as soon as I buy it and bring it home. I used to buy music Albums and I grew up making a backup on a cassette the first time I played the record on the turntable. The record would degrade more and more after each time you played it. I know DVDs last longer but I don't take that chance. Thanks.

 

elizerroj (Member) 16. June 2005 @ 18:33
let's, at least something cleard, "hitch" can be back up and burn, the protection in it might be difficult to break, but it is doable.
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The copy protection on "Hitch" is no different than the copy protection on any other disk. I just used DVD 43 to copy the files to my Hard Drive, and had no difficulity. If your drive won't read the files, you have a BAD DISK. Take it back and get a different one.

After you have the files on your Hard Drive, the only thing you might have problems with is the number of garbage files that were written on the original disk. But, even those are easy to deal with if you use DVD Shrink and eliminate the ones you don't need.

All in all, it's a very, very SIMPLE disk to backup.

- Mike -

 

Ok, if anyone is online, can you please walk me thru the burning part of this?? I have decrypted and downloaded the dvd. Now I was going to back it up with shrink. Can anyone advise what to do first??

 

i have hitch ripped to my computer but when i try to compress when it gets around 38% it gets errored.
it says
dvd shrink has encountered an error and cannot continue,
out of memory
not enough memory to process this command

help plz

 

I'm also having problems w/ Hitch.

I'm using Intervideo DVD Copy 3 w/ Region Free+CSS.
It showed that it copied the movie fine but, when playing it back on PC and Standalones the movie plays the previews fine.

When trying to watch it,it wont play either selected scenes or it won't even play the movie itself @ all.

was thinking about giving AnyDVD and Shrink a shot or, using DVD Decypter w/ shrink.

Haven't used them in awhile since I heard Decrypter was going under.

 

This is how I did it. Ripped it to hard drive using DVD decrypter using ISO format. Then used Shrink to take out the crap (I only use the movies no special junk) then burn (although I dont burn to a frisbee its the same process). Hitch has bad sectors on the source disk so you need to just read the files and not the sectors as I suspect your program is doing. Shrink and Decrypter are free to download here. Use them write back if you get stuck again.

 

If your running out of memory are you sure you have enough main memory and enough hard drive space. Even though you might have copied it to your hard drive Shrink needs working room to compress the file before the burn so make sure you dont even try to copy unless you have about 10GB of space free. As for the person who has problems with 38%? Did you try it again? Do you have crappy media? If you think this might be the problem work with an DVD-RW disk then you wont waste disks while working out the bugs.

 

Can DVD Decrypter or DVDFab Decrypter be used with DVD X Copy Platinum (v 4.0.3)? If so can someone tell me how this process would work. I tried to backup HITCH with ANYDVD v.5.2.4.2 but I was unsuccessful.