How to rip old Region 4 DVDs?

[Polska]

Hello folks,

I am desperate. Soon I will move for an year to Berlin and I do want to get all my DVDs (850 and counting) with me. Of course it will be impossible to carry all of them with me so I started slowly to rip them. The Region 1 DVDs I have no problem using Handbrake but the Region 4 (specially the old ones) it seems impossible.

Every time that I try to rip a Region 4 with HandBrake, takes 10 minutes to it scanning the DVD and returns a "No source found". Sometimes, after 10 or so minutes waiting, he finds the main title and extract but when I check the video, it's damaged (just the sound with a green bar as video).

I already tried Mac The Ripper (2.66) and it rips with no problem but by the end, it says that has bad tracks so later I cannot convert to a M4V with Handbrake. I read here people talking about Visual Hub but this one simply froze and didnt do anything.

Can anybody suggest something else? I would appreciate .

Thanks!

Erick Pessôa
Brazil

[thunderclap]

Have you tried copying the VIDEO_TS directory from the DVD to your hard drive and then burning it to a DVD-R? Maybe original DVD has some imperfections that are causing the problem.

[Polska]

Have you tried copying the VIDEO_TS directory from the DVD to your hard drive and then burning it to a DVD-R? Maybe original DVD has some imperfections that are causing the problem.

I don't think it's an imperfection because I tried 32 different DVDs so far. It's something different. :(

[CWallace]

Brazil is NTSC, correct? So that is likely not the problem...

[cohibadad]

You might try one of the old deCSS programs. If they are old DVDs it is probably as simple as stripping the CSS off. You can google it. I believe the original program was called simply decss for the PC. I seem to remember there was a similar program for the Mac.

[pacmania1982]

I've found that if I try to rip a Region 1 DVD when my DVD drive is set to a different region, I get the same problem. I also can't copy the VIDEO_TS folder from the DVD to my hard drive. Easiest way round it I have found is to put a different region DVD in (say if its set to the default 2 and I put in a 1) Apple DVD Player will ask me to change the region, which I do. I can then rip the DVD, then put in a region 2 DVD and change it back again.

I'm using Region X to reset the count each time so the drive doesn't get locked to a specific region after 5 changes

Hope this helps

pac

[DoFoT9]

disc region 4 is australia??

send it to me and ill do it 4 ya lol

[Polska]

I've found that if I try to rip a Region 1 DVD when my DVD drive is set to a different region, I get the same problem. I also can't copy the VIDEO_TS folder from the DVD to my hard drive. Easiest way round it I have found is to put a different region DVD in (say if its set to the default 2 and I put in a 1) Apple DVD Player will ask me to change the region, which I do. I can then rip the DVD, then put in a region 2 DVD and change it back again.

I'm using Region X to reset the count each time so the drive doesn't get locked to a specific region after 5 changes

Hope this helps

pac

Pac,

That could be a reason!! I downloaded Region X but he asks to confirm that my DVD Drive is Region Free, which is not. How can I make it region Free? It's a Macbook Pro DVD (not DL). Could you help me?

Thanks!
Erick Pessôa

[yeroen]

MacTheRipper is your answer

[Polska]

MacTheRipper is your answer

Yoren,

Every time I try MacTheRipper he extracts but by the end it says that the DVD has bad sectors and when I try to convert it to a M4V file, Handbrake says that the Source was not found.

Erick Pessôa

[Polska]

Hi all.

Pac gave me the the reason of the problem; being set to Region 1, Handbrake does not rip other Region's DVD. What I'm doing now is the following:
- In my Vista computer (regular PC) I rip the Region 4 DVD using AnyDVD with CloneDVD, ripping the Main Title to an external drive.
- I plug the external drive to my Macbook Pro and convert it with Handbrake. It worked fine.

Thanks for the help!

Erick Pessôa
Brazil