Newbie guide to ARccOS Protection with DVD Decrypter

how do i tell it is ARooCS? DVD Decrypter says that there is a suspect sector and it will add a Dummy File but it does not fail, even without anything like AnyDVD running. but when i get the movie on the hard drive and try paly it back i get Green blotching and Mass amount of Pixilation in the film..... like it is ir a realy bad digital rip.

So is there software for DVD's to tell you what protection is being used? there used to be for Games.

 

If you get a green screen, then it could be because you are trying to just play a VOB file. Try opening the IFO and see if it works. I get the same type of playback with Nero Showtime, but if I open an IFO it plays fine.

The only way to tell if a protection is ARccOS, is by who made the movie. If the movie was made by one of the Sony Studios and Decrypter gives you the Dummy Sector warning then you most likely have the ARccOS protection. If Decrypter rips the movie with no errors, then it is most likely that it can handle the protection with no problems.

If it is a movie like Madagascar, then you may have a different type of corruption. Many think that this is Ripguard and I agree with them. The only movies I know of with Ripguard are Madagascar and some adult movies:

http://www.adultnewsline.com/anl/article_10319.shtml

However, as can be read in a short post, Ripguard is already rippable by Decrypter:

http://digg.com/movies/DVD_DeCrypter_cracks_Macrovision_s_RipGuard_

 

DVD Decypter does not come with any errors, but playing it back from the hard drive through Power DVD and selecting the VIDEO_TS.IFO file, i get blotching and the green screens. so i will have to look further into this.

I did manage to play the origanl on one of my PC's and captupre it on another pc to a MPEG2 file and using DVD authoring software i made a movie only disc.

But i would like to back the whole disc up, even though there are no special features to it, the protection on this disc realy has me stumped and very challenging.

Will look into Ripgaurd though.

Just looking at the DVD case it is an MGM and United Artits DVD.... nothing to do with Sony from what i can see, so maybe some other protection we havent come across yet, if i find a way i will let you know.

Oh this DVD was bought in South Africa, Region 2 disc, so who knows what these funny people in this country have done to there discs LOL.

In case you were wondering i am Scottish living here in SA.

 

MGM is owned by Sony now so ARccOS is possible. What you can do is send me the IFO files through e-mail and I can take a look at them. There is a chance that the protection has changed.

First, for the IFOs, just make a folder on your desktop named "BeCool IFOs" or something like that. Then explore your DVD by right clicking on your DVD and selecting "explore". Select all of the IFO files and drag and drop them into the "BeCool IFOs" folder.

Now zip this folder and tell me to give you my e-mail address. i will then send you a PM with my e-mail and you can e-mail me the IFOs.

However, I am almost positive, that this movie is not corrupted. Maybe there is a setting in Power DVD that is causing this. Download Media Player Classic and try playing it:

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_players/media_player_classic.cfm

This is not a DVD Player, but it will play VOB files and probably also open IFOs.

 

hi there great, i will get the files sorted out tonight when i get home, 9.14am here right now, so will be about 5pm my time,

will try the media player aswell,

Thanks,

 

I think it is odd that Decrypter gives a Dummy Sector message. I do not see any type of ARccOS protection on this movie. It is possible that the Dummy Sectors are going into VTS_01, but this looks to be a warning screen of some type. Maybe you should try to rip the movie with DVD Shrink, or since you have the move on your Hard Drive, use VobBlanker to blank out VTS_01 (not the menu though).

Also, when you rip the movie, make sure you select the proper Region. Maybe there is that RCE protection and it is not being removed correctly.

I was wondering, did you try to burn the movie?? If you have a DVDRW burn it, but first run it through DVD Shrink. If Shrink does not give you an error, then everything should be OK.

Another thing you can do is export a PSL. If there is nothing to export, then it is possible that there is an authoring error somewhere. This would be hard to find though.

I will look at the IFOs a bit closer tonight, and if I find something, I will tell you.

If you plan on skipping VTS_01, then in file mode, do not select VTS_01_1.VOB. Then after you rip, open VobBlanker and process this VTS. Make sure you blank out VTS_01 PGC 1. I do not know exactly what is in this VTS, but there is a chance that it is giving Decrypter some problems.

 

to JaguarGod: How do I decrypt if I have full-screen verion of Stealth.
I see that I have 26 cells in Chapter 1 in full-screen. Please help me
I am very appreciated.

 

hi all,
If anyone has been following the problems with Be Cool, this is a lttle bit of a strange one.

Anydvd runing or not..... DVD decrypter pulls all files raw and no problems (apart from a warning about a dumm sector needed), and the movie comes out with green blocks.

DVD shrink hit problems with or without Anydvd. DVDfab hits problems.

JaguarGod has been trying to help me out with this problem for about a week now, and some thins look suspect, yet they are not.

So heres what i did. Last night sitting up after the wife and kid were in bed, i found a piece of software that came with my new mother board i bout a few weeks ago and on it was interVideo DVD copy 2. so i can only install it on this computer. Not the computer i use all the time for my DVD making. and low and behold....... RIPED AND COMPRESSED!!!!!!!

works like a dream, granted i need to install Anydvd to do it.... but problem solved...... now all i have to do is wait untill Stealth is released here in South Africa, and see if this DVD copy is as good as i hope that it is.

Problem i have is i cannot install this new whoopie software on my other computer as it is made for my Asus Motherboard. Small price to pay i guess for the weeks i have been working on this disc.

JaguarGod, thank you so much for your time and your help.

Will keep intouch with the forum as it has been a great help and very helpful people in it.

Thanks again

Will stay in touch

Happy Ripping

PS just tried to rip the same disc on my other computer with interVideo DVD copy 4 and it crashed out.... so what is it with this version 2?

PSS JaguarGod, all those VTS files in that disc are trailers to other movies..... but are not accessable from the menus on the disc..... so what was the point?

 

Just more Sony BS. Some things they do make me wonder how they are so successful...

Use VobBlanker and get rid of them. Not only will it save you space, you will not have to watch all those stupid previews before the menu appears.

 

I recently acquired Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. It shows Sony Entertainment on the disc, so I can presume it might have some ARccOS protection on it.

Disregarding any possibility of ARccOS protection, I used my normal process (AnyDVD v.5.4.1.1 running in the background) and CloneDVD. I did not encounter any errors like I would have normally. It ripped and burned completely. However, when I went to play it back on a normal DVD player, I noted several spots in the movie where the movie freezes.

Might this be a result of me not looking for any ARccOS protection when I ripped it the first time ? If not, what else would cause the ripped DVD to freeze at several points in the main movie and what can be done to prevent it ?

Thanks.

 

I got all the way through the "newbie" process, but then when I tried to open the file with DVD Shrink, I get the error:

Invalid data in file: C:...\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB
Overlapped I/O operation is in progress

How can I get around this error? Help a true newbie!

Thanks.

 

When I tried to rip Stealth using DVD Decrypter, VOB_1 gave multiple errors so i skipped that file. But, the rest of the files were ripped as usual. So, I went to the DVD Drive (E), and Right clicked it to open the Stealth DVD. There, I copied VOB_1 and pasted it with the rest of the files from DVD Decrypter.

Next, I DVD Shrinked it (which is a gem) and it ripped the movie like any other DVD.

 

@Werdnah,

Deuce Bigalow does not have any ARccOS on it. You only need to use the guide for movies that give you some type of read error on VTS_xx_1.VOB. Decrypter will first give you a Dummy Sector message. Then when it rips, it will get stuck at a certain place and go to 0 kbps rip speed and give you a read error every couple of seconds. Also, this guide is not needed for those that have AnyDVD. Make sure you update to the latest version, currently 5.6.1.1.

@SiberXX,

It seems like you have AnyDVD running in the background. The errors may have been Pack Header Errors. You can safely ignore those.

 

Hey:

Nope, just have Dvd Decrypter and Shrink. ANYDVD seems like a good program but so far, every dvd disk i've run into can be decrypted with either of those programs as long as the disk is not too badly scratched.

I usually use Dvd Shrink first and if it gives errors, then i am forced to use both programs. If I run into problems then, I just try different things till it works.

 

okay I fixed the error I had above, but DVD Shrink still says it's too big. How do I blank out the previews?

 

more specifically, how do I drop the previews, but keep the other extras (and still get DVD Shrink to say its not too big)

 

I would appreciate the PDFs for Ripping Guide for Newbies and also the advanced quide.
Thanks.

 

@jman147,

You need to use VobBlanker:

http://jsoto.posunplugged.com/vobblanker.htm

http://jsoto.posunplugged.com/guides.htm

The previews are in VTS_03 and on. You should also strip the audio using VobBlanker. Leave only the 5.1 Dolby. I also blanked the extras.

@crmyers,

PM me with your e-mail

 

@ JaguarGod

Hi!

Very intersting approach and also a nice guide!

This statement puzzles me a bit (it's not mentioned in your 'expert' guide):

Is this just to the fact that in general the DTS stream will take to much space - needed for the compression/shrinking or is it just for this DVD or ARccOS DVDs in general a problem for DVD Shrink to handle such DVDs with DTS streams enabled? Just to be noted that this DVD makes something odd with DVD Shrink - just your AC 5.1 soundstream is only 8 Mb as showned in your image.

 

Hello Cynthia_,

No, both the DTS & Dolby 5.1 can actually fit with only 95% compression on this movie. There is something that Sony does to the VOBs that I cannot figure out. As you saw in that screen shot you pointed out, the audio files are misread by DVD Shrink and it does not allow the movie to compress.

The same goes for the DTS audio. DVD Shrink detects it as being 12kb or something like that. It could be that I am runnig Windows 2000, but I have yet to attempt any type of ripping/burning on Windows XP (I do not like XP). I have noticed the same being true even with a PSL file.

The reason it was not mentioned in the advanced guide is because I did not have this problem then. I actually ripped the movies while making both guides, so there is a chance that some of the editing that I did in IFOEdit corrected Resident Evil, or maybe Sony changed something with ARccOS.