[Torre]

Hello all,

I am having trouble ripping home-made DVDs with SMARTRIPPER.

I use SMARTRIPPER all the time to save DVD clips, however, when I try to rip my home-made DVDs I get an error.


It starts to list the files and then I get a message that reads, “Access Violation at Address XXXXX in Module Smartripper.exe.â€


I have several DVD’s that I made with a stand-alone Panasonic recorder and I will be very upset if I can not save a few scenes to my hard drive. When I explore the files of these DVDs they appear to be the same as professionally recorded ones. They play normally on the PC so why can’t SMARTRIPPER access them?


I hope that someone can guide me around this problem.


Thanks much!!

 

[Axel]

Torre;

Just a thought: Have you tried to copy those files directly via explorer to your HDD? I am not familiar with the Panasonic recorder but those files/DVDs might not even be encrypted.


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Axel

 

[Torre]

Great idea!

I have not tried a simple cut and paste.

I will try it tonight and report back.


Thanks.


I still don't understand why SMARTRIPPER can't do it though.

 

[budiman]

Also, try to see if you can rip it with SmartRipper using the recorder drive itself (instead from a DVD-ROM).


On my setup, I use DVD-RWs (It's about 25 cents more than a DVD-R), and my DVD-ROM plays it fine - but when I use DVDDecrypter, it reports that there are 6 GB of data on the DVD-RW (which is not possible). So, any attempt to DVDDecrypt them are useless. Putting the DVD-RWs in my Pioneer recorder, DVDDecrypter works fine - I'm blaming it on the firmware of my DVD-ROM.

 

[Torre]

Thanks Budiman,

Unfortunately, my recorder is a stand alone unit. I do not have a DVD recorder in the PC.

 

[Torre]

Axel,

I did a simple "copy and paste" and it worked fine. Thanks.


Maybe SMARTRIPPER was confused since the files were not encripted.

Also, the files were large. Some were over 1 GB.


Thanks again.

 

[Axel]

I am glad to hear that, Mark. It is interesting you mentioned that you have files over 1GB. What's the exact size? So far in the DVD world everything I came accross was limited to just 1GB.


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Axel

 

[Torre]

Quote:

Originally posted by Axel So far in the DVD world everything I came accross was limited to just 1GB.

Actually, they show-up as about 1.001 GB. So they are just a hair over.

I did not know about the 1 GB max, but it now makes sense. I had recorded a couple of movies off of HBO and there are no "chapters". The files show up as several files at 1.001 GB.


Thanks again.

 

[salsbst]

1gb max is for Win9x and other os's that can't handle files over a gig. NT, 2000 and XP all can handle over a gig.

 

[dandrewk]

Sals - yes, but DVD players can't.

 

[vrindner]

Actually, technically, the file limitation in Win 9x is 2GB and it is related to the fact that it uses FAT-based file system. The other OSes use NTFS and can handle files bigger than 2GB.