![]() Lately I’ve been up to my armpits in SSH public key encryption and installing OTRS (a helpdesk system) into the Amazon EC2 cloud, so in this case I’m quite willing to give up complexity in favour of having the product ‘just work’. ![]() When it comes to complexity, I’m normally a middle of the road kind of guy, I hate things being too simple, or too hard. It does what it says with the minimum of fuss, and I’m an extremely happy guy. No problems, glitches, issues or annoyances. So I fired up RipIt and here’s what I found- nothing. I suspect it might be a legal issue, but I don’t really care, all I want is to use movies that I already own! I do own hundreds of DVD’s, remember I’m not talking about piracy here…. I was a bit cranky about this, as even MacTheRipper (MTR) could do that! But then I realised that the region code is possibly the easiest of these anti piracy measures to defeat, so there must be another reason. To my surprise, just about everything except the region code. I found out by happy accident that the developer, The Little App Factory was a previous customer of Total Recall- that’s right, the company is right here in Sydney! So I emailed the boss and asked him point blank about what anti piracy features the software can defeat. It also may violate the GPL agreement of some libraries it uses. It chokes on DVD’s that include ARCOSS protection, and an increasing number of modern discs. MacTheRipper is now old, crusty and virtually unworkable. Honestly I stayed with MacTheRipper for a long time without looking at RipIt, which I had acquired as part of one of these cheap bundles that come up from time to time. DVD2oneX2, iRipDVD, MacX DVD Ripper Pro, DVDRemaster, and MacTheRipper. In my quest I’ve bought, used and discarded lots of software. Must remove content scrambling, ARCOSS, region coding etc so I can repurpose for iPod, iPad Must rip the DVD in full, original quality If you’d seen the condition of some of his DVD’s you’d agree with me! As a father of a 5 year old, I’ve long wanted a system of archiving my DVD’s that could keep the originals away from sticky fingers.
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