Another Unable to Use DVDFab HD Decryptor

[AGJ]

I installed the 11/11 (version 6.2.0.5) of the sofware. I only rip an occasional DVD, so I thought that the free HD Decrypter license would suffice for me. After the 30 days have expired, however, I am seeing the same issues as others posting here. The movie I am hving trouble with is The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King -- Hardly a recent disk. Yet when I insert the disk in the drive, I get a message the I need to either upgrade my license or wait for the next version of HD Decrypter.

As others have said, it looks like it has "expired" the "never expire" license of HD decrypter.

Just to clarify - I am trying to use DVD to DVD/Main Movie to copy the disk to the hard drive.

Well I have that DVD and once my trial has ended I will give it a go along with other movies as I do not think there is any problems with the free version. It is just the computers it is installed on and the user who installed it on the computer not knowing how to install correctly

[jbernardis]

Also not working for me

I installed the 11/11 (version 6.2.0.5) of the sofware. I only rip an occasional DVD, so I thought that the free HD Decrypter license would suffice for me. After the 30 days have expired, however, I am seeing the same issues as others posting here. The movie I am hving trouble with is The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King -- Hardly a recent disk. Yet when I insert the disk in the drive, I get a message the I need to either upgrade my license or wait for the next version of HD Decrypter.

As others have said, it looks like it has "expired" the "never expire" license of HD decrypter.

Just to clarify - I am trying to use DVD to DVD/Main Movie to copy the disk to the hard drive.

[AGJ]

Well, I installed 6.2.0.5 on my laptop and the trial version worked. So I then changed the computer calendar to make the trial expire, and even with the trial expired it still worked. Sorry, don't know what the problem could be for you. As far as I can tell the free version works as it should.

I had installed v6.2.0.5 on a separate Win-XP SP-3 partition on 11/11/09 when it first was released to kick the tires. That trial period has now expired and the DVDFab info window indicates the "DVD to DVD" option is expired -- all the options except "full disk" and "main movie" indicate they are expired. I just launched it and used the "main movie" option to rip a DVD to an .ISO file. It worked without issue.

I knew the free DVDFab HD Decryptor worked and soon the trial will run out on mine and I will report the same thing as I have never had issues with DVDFab ever

[alan]

Well, I installed 6.2.0.5 on my laptop and the trial version worked. So I then changed the computer calendar to make the trial expire, and even with the trial expired it still worked. Sorry, don't know what the problem could be for you. As far as I can tell the free version works as it should.

Thank you for the messege.

[kelson]

I had installed v6.2.0.5 on a separate Win-XP SP-3 partition on 11/11/09 when it first was released to kick the tires. That trial period has now expired and the DVDFab info window indicates the "DVD to DVD" option is expired -- all the options except "full disk" and "main movie" indicate they are expired. I just launched it and used the "main movie" option to rip a DVD to an .ISO file. It worked without issue.

[Neocold]

Well, I installed 6.2.0.5 on my laptop and the trial version worked. So I then changed the computer calendar to make the trial expire, and even with the trial expired it still worked. Sorry, don't know what the problem could be for you. As far as I can tell the free version works as it should.

[Neocold]

I have a Laptop that does not have any DVD ripping software on it, I will install the latest DVDFab HD Decryptor version and get back to you with my results.

[remote]

Sorry guys, i am not having these problems and therefore can't help.
Before i purchased this software, i could still copy any dvd that did not have the lastest protection on it.
This was long after my trial period had ended.

Yes, up until the last version (couple of versions maybe, since the original poster has a slightly older one), this was indeed the case and it worked fine for me. It's only very recently that these problems started for me, after 30 days of using the latest November 11th version.

[magnum62]

He has already proven that the free version works.
By running it as another user.
So the protection is not the problem here, is it ?
Hence the trial version expiration is taking HD Decryptor with it just as he says.

Sorry guys, i am not having these problems and therefore can't help.
Before i purchased this software, i could still copy any dvd that did not have the lastest protection on it.
This was long after my trial period had ended.

[magnum62]

I would say that there is safety precautions included in the software to prevent people from trying to use more than one trial period.
I like the software and therefore purchased it and am very happy with it.
I have zero problems backing up any dvd.
I would rather have the paid version and have no problems. Than to have to wait for 60-90 days for updates.
Because there will be backup problems during the waiting period for those using the free version.

[remote]

This is a serious problem.

I am having the exact same issue, and so are many others. I registered to specifically make this post to confirm that many of us out there are getting this issue.

So, let's go into some more detail about the problem:

-It does not matter what movie you try. Very old movies don't work either.
-If you uninstall the software completely AND clean the registry, you get exactly 1 rip of any movie after reinstalling. After that, you get the message again until you uninstall and reinstall.
-Trying to change to the trial again does not have any effect whatsoever
-This is a *new* issue with the policy change, it has never happened before

I do not have any problem with the new policy about waiting 30-60 days for free users. It makes perfect sense that paid users get the updates first. However, this is a separate issue. The "free" feature (the only one we get, ripping a DVD to the hard drive) no longer works correctly.

I hope this information helps the developers to address the problem. It appears to be an implementation problem (a bug) with the new version. Thanks for the software and I look forward to being able to use it again, and will purchase it if/when I need the additional features.

[ceadbanka]

He has already proven that the free version works.
By running it as another user.
So the protection is not the problem here, is it ?
Hence the trial version expiration is taking HD Decryptor with it just as he says.

[magnum62]

I read all of that and that is not the problem. Because I tried running DVDFab with "Run as Administrator" and it worked, plus the 1st popup window, "Welcome to DVDFab" had all the options listed as if I'd never used the program before. That was the 1st time it had been run from the Admin account or with Admin privledges.
Bottom line here is, the trial version expiration is taking HD Decryptor with it. Someone......preferably with not so short arms and not so deep pockets...please prove me wrong.

That's not the attitude to have if you need help.
The free version works, but not with the latest protection found on some new releases.
You will have to get the paid version for it to work with those titles.
If not you can wait with the others, who don't have the paid version.
For lets see about 60/90 days.

[signals]

The HD Decrypter features should continue to be available when the trial expires. Will be interested to see what the very patient AGJ finds.

[AGJ]

AGJ, you've got a lot of patience. You might try to manually advance the date on the PC beyond the 30-day period, and that should cause the expiration process to kick in. Once expired, you could probably reset the date setting back to the actual date. I've never done this before so I'm just speculating now...

No I not have patience and in no rush to test the free version as I have the paid version on my main computer and it works great no problems for me