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  DVD CSS Decryption
  Written: August 08th, 2001 @ 18:42 GMT By: Thorsten Titze
 
 
Software needed for this step of DVD conversion:

[DVDDecrypter 3 ]
(Possibly a software DVD Player for authorization)


There have been quite some software titles available to decrypt the CSS encoding and protection scheme used by most DVDs. It started with DeCSS which just featured a reverse-engineered XingDVD decryptor. After the industry just took XingDVD codes out of their DVD's they thought they were safe.

But with DeCSS there was a tool that uses a cryptographical approach to retrieve valid decoding-codes from within the VOBs. SmartRipper is not only a GUI but a stand-alone ripper using the algorithms of DeCSS and also featuring all the features of Demuxers like VSTRIP. Here's how to use it:

  • Download the DVDDecrypter Package and unzip into a directory of your choice.
  • Insert your DVD to be ripped into your DVD Rom Drive
  • Fire up DVDDecrypter
    (now Smartripper tries to authenticate the DVD and parses the included IFO File which includes all valuable information about the movie)
  • Now the DVDDecrypter Main Window will appear:



  • Choose which part of the DVD you want to rip
    (DVD Decrypter should have already chosen the main-movie of the DVD Disc)

  • Check whether the path in the Destination frame is okay for you
  • If not click the little Folder icon and browse to the desired path
  • Click the big DVD -> Harddisk button

  • The decryption should start and the status bar should show decrypting
    (also in the file-view in the pane VobKey you should the keys of the files)

Note:
If nothing of the above happens and the system just hangs fire up a software DVD-Player and start playing the movie for authentication.

Now you have the decoded VOBs on your harddisks for further conversion.

 

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