matswat said:

I am a fan of SF movies and I bought T2 Terminator 2 Extreme Edition specially to check that high definition version of the movie and I was sad and crushed when I discovered that they used drm protected files and because of this they take away possibility to use/watch it. I post this information for other fans of SF and movies generally.

Necro time! 😄

Thanks matswat for this guide. I picked up the Canadian R1 Extreme DVD the other day (it’s worth having just for the booklet written by Van Ling) and I was curious about the HD content and how to extract it. For the benefit of others, I can confirm that FreeMe2 still works right up to Windows 11. Once the .WMV files were decrypted I used ASFBIN to append them all into one file that totals 7GB in size.

Initially I tried to do this with FFMPEG but it always lost the audio. Anyhow, here’s some grabs:

T2-g
T2-h
T2-i

The aspect ratio has to be set manually in VLC, otherwise it expands the image vertically. This doesn’t happen with other media players. Speaking of VLC, here’s the codec details.

T2-j

Better than 720p but not as a good as 1080p. It looks okay, I suppose and it’s nice to have the option to compare it to the other home video versions.