Now, I have a 5 year old…. Â And that means, I really need to ensure that the DVD’s she can use are backed up… Â But many discs are starting to use a relatively annoying but easily defeated copy protection…
This can be identified since the DVD’s are reporting that they have 99+ tracks… Â So Handbrake and other packages really don’t have a way to identify which track is the real movie. Â Why do I say real? Â Because the other tracks consists of random scenes thrown together…
Here’s how to defeat it….
- Open the DVD in your software DVD player of choice.
- Start the main feature.
- From the “Go” menu in DVD Player.app or the “Playback” menu in VLC, take note of the current title, indicated with a tick mark.
Now here’s the sad part, do you know how much the studio’s are charged for this copy protection? Â They license it from someone….
Think about it. Â The DVD that you legally purchased, and simply want to make a backup of, or play on your iPod, or on your Linux box was probably $2-5 more expensive, because someone wants to make you start the DVD player and see the track number before you can RIP it…