Should this be possible?

bradpatton · 11-14-04, 03:00 AM

I worked for a while selling consumer electronics and I always told customers that wanted to hook their DVD player into a VCR that it wasn't possible due to copy protection. Yet I hooked a Sanyo DVD player into the s-video input of my tuner card and was able to record a commercial DVD (the movie Kate & Leopold) in mpeg2. The quality was outstanding with no copy-protection breakup.

Does anyone know why this (the supposedly impossible) was possible?

11-14-04, 03:17 AM

your special

bradpatton · 11-14-04, 11:34 PM

I think you misunderstood. I wasn't gloating, just the opposite. Unlike a lot of people on here, I haven't been able to rip a single DVD to my axim yet. I was just wondering if anyone else had tried recording the output of their DVD player.

kramerica · 11-15-04, 12:18 AM

Why can't you just rip the DVD with your Computer like everyone else?

bradpatton · 11-15-04, 12:52 AM

Originally Posted by kramerica

Why can't you just rip the DVD with your Computer like everyone else?

What's wrong with doing your own thing and not doing "like everyone else"? There's more than one way to do something. Some people use Linux (not me) or Macs (boo again) instead of Windows XP (yeah) "like everyone else".

I didn't set out to copy a DVD. I just wanted to watch the Sanyo DVD player on the computer (long story). I just tried googling "DVD copying" and found out that the picture is only distorted if you copy to a vcr, not to the svideo inputs of your computer. The copy protection needs the AGR (automatic gain control) chip of a vcr to function.

So here's an alternative way to copy a Hollywood DVD to your axim. This might appeal to someone who doesn't want to download any "DVD ripper" programs from unknown sources.

kramerica · 11-15-04, 01:13 PM

I'm just saying that It's clearly not a very good way to do it.

You said "I haven't been able to rip a single DVD to my axim yet"... Well download Smartripper or DVD Decrypter, and do it the easy way.

Don't Panic! · 11-15-04, 01:30 PM

I don't get it? bradpatton jst shared with us a new way to get DVD's over to your computer and folks are acting like it's sacrelige or something. I'm going to try this when I get home. It would be nice to be able to hook up my DVD player to my computer and have something like WM Recorder do the conversion in realtime. bradpatton -did the movie play in Windows Media Player on your computer and what version of WMP are you using?

Don't Panic!
Bobby

**Martin** · 11-15-04, 03:36 PM

I didn't understand it either Bobby; didn't seem like bragging he just seemed genuinely confused!

Aren't we all....! :approve:

BraTTy · 11-15-04, 11:19 PM

I am not sure how yours is working.Have you tried other dvds?
I have done alot of movie transferring and what have you.I have a macrovision descrambler and it uses the rca connector.Therefore when I use svideo I don't have the copy protection disabled and you can clearly see that its not.
Not all DVDs have copy protection.Mostly high tech,sci-fi and certain movies.