Re: Doo-Nanny folk art festival video (ripping & burning DVD)

Will Dockery

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Dec 2, 2009, 2:07:06 PM12/2/09

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On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:39 PM, <http://www.tomshardware.com> wrote:

Hello,

Dunklegend has posted a new reply in the following thread :

Help with dvd ripping/puttting it on a blank disc?!

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Thanks, Dunklegend... so, basically, getting the work done is a matter
of having the proper software. With this one DVD in particular, all
original work owned by me, btw, it was a recording of an outdoor
concert filmed last April by someone i don't really know, or actually
don't know at all, although friends of mine know him, who delivered
the disc to me. I digress, hang on...

I was given a DVD of a set I performed last April (at the Hogbottom
Fest in Fort Mitchell, Alabama) from a fellow who filmed the entire
festival, and intends to put out a "Best Of" compilation. None of us,
the bands involved, have a big problem with that, but we did want
copies of the recordings of our sets, which we could also consider
using parts of.

A DVD was finally delivered to my friend McGuire, who is a pro with
computers, sound, et cetera (he pressed & produced my last CD album,
"Shadowville Speedway", in fact. He assumed that like with dozens of
other video discs, he'd burn everybody copies, after putting the files
on his machine. The files won't copy, no matter what tricks he
tried... and he knows a /few/. The DVD will play, but there seems to
be a real block to copying it... making it useless to us in that form,
of course. In frustration, McGuire actually turned the disc over to me
and said "See what you can do with it, I give up."

Of course, I haven't had a lot of luck with it, besides sitting and
watching the contents.

Do you think that Nero is the answer for me?

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John Williamson

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Dec 2, 2009, 4:37:50 PM12/2/09

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Will Dockery wrote:
> A DVD was finally delivered to my friend McGuire, who is a pro with
> computers, sound, et cetera (he pressed & produced my last CD album,
> "Shadowville Speedway", in fact. He assumed that like with dozens of
> other video discs, he'd burn everybody copies, after putting the files
> on his machine. The files won't copy, no matter what tricks he
> tried... and he knows a /few/. The DVD will play, but there seems to
> be a real block to copying it... making it useless to us in that form,
> of course. In frustration, McGuire actually turned the disc over to me
> and said "See what you can do with it, I give up."
>
> Of course, I haven't had a lot of luck with it, besides sitting and
> watching the contents.
>
> Do you think that Nero is the answer for me?
>

Probably not. It seems that there is some form of copy protection on it.

If the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders can be opened and read using
Explorer, then you *may* be able to copy the VOB files, otherwise search
for "DVD copy protection removal" without the quotes. There are two or
three different programs available which don't get a great amount of
publicity, as it's against the law to use them in many countries. The
trial versions are free, then you pay for the full version.

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Tciao for Now!

John.

Will Dockery

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Dec 2, 2009, 4:53:09 PM12/2/09

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On Dec 2, 4:37 pm, John Williamson <johnwilliam...@btinternet.com>
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Thanks, John... I'll pass this on to McGuire & see if he can take it
from there.