Ripping is a different process than just copying the contents. Where should I begin?Ripping the contents to a computer extracts the DVD files off the disc and onto the computer. As you can tellI'm rather ignorant of all that you mention. So, seeing as I don't know what that means I naturally have no knowledge of. But we can't get that far.Īll that sounds like it could be useful but I really have no idea what needing 'to rip the contents off the disk' means. If the raw contents of the disc (.VOB files) had been visible, there are all sorts of tools which would have been available to play them, or to rip them from disc to HDD, maybe even cracking any encryption in the files. I wonder what a DVD reader drive (ie not capable of writing) would make of this disc? If you can still find such a drive. VOB/.IFO/.BUO files) are not even visible because a DVD drive in a computer spits the disc out before it presents the files. This disc is failing at an earlier stage: the contents (VIDEO_TS folder and. Then you can play these files on a computer and get your screen grabs (Daum Potplayer is an excellent option for this).I don't think that's going to help. There other ripping programs I'll check on if these 2 aren't any help.ĮDIT : Another one is DVDFab HD DecrypterĮDIT 2 : You could try converting the DVD to a computer video file.

Try DVD Decrypter or DVD Shrink (you might need to come back here for detailed steps if you aren't successful). Then you can play the content files (.vob. You need to rip the contents off the disk before trying to view/play it.

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