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Gentlemen, I'm in need of your assistance. As you guys know, I often rip the audio track from films, so that I can listen to the films on long flights - sort of a books on tape deal, but with film audio.

I've not had any real issues with copy protection. I use DVD43 and it gets me past the protection every time - until now (I think).

I may have reached an impasse this time. I've not been able to read the disc with my usual program, DVD Audio Extractor, so I tried a few others - Decrypter, DVD Shrink, Hand Brake, and DVDtoMP3. The only one able to work around what I think may be copy protection has been Handbrake. I was able to copy the film to my hard drive, thinking I would then extract the audio track. The quality of the hard drive copy is fantastic. However - the chapters are out of order and I'm unable to separate them so that I can reorder them.

Any ideas as to how I can either work around the copy protection for the audio rip, or copy an order-correct version of the film so that I can rip the audio from the local copy?

Thanks in advance.

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You could try searching the decryption forums at Doom9 - if the title you're trying to rip has a newer type of protection it's usually mentioned there, with solutions.

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Let us know how you got on. What was the title that was giving you problems?

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So far* it looks like it's going to be a go.  The film is the new Star Trek, by the way.  Just as you predicted, it's a particularly tough customer, so it has its own thread over there. The members not only had two programs that had worked for most everyone, but they also explained some of the things to look out for - false Titles and false file sizes designed to error out ripping programs that can't handle large files. In fact, that was the case with two programs that failed for me.

*I have the film ripping to my hard drive at work, using DVDFab, I started it before I went home Thursday.  I'll ride in tomorrow and check it.  If it works, and I have no reason to believe it won't, I'll burn the rip back to a DVD and then extract the audio track from that.

Anyway, the site was very helpful and very interesting. I'll keep you posted.

Thanks again.

 

*Edit*

Worked perfectly. DVD to hard drive, local copy to DVD, MP3 from the copy.

Thanks again, man.

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