DVD Ripper Looking for some guidance

[b00bie]

Hi

I'm sure that this is just some option or something that I don't understand but I am getting frustrated and looking for direction. First my System (Win 7 X64 Home, DVDFab 8.1.7.8, Intel Q9660, 3.5GHZ, 8GB Crucial DDR2, DVDFab is installed on an Intel SSD and I have two Lite-On Has24 DVD drives). I have been a DVDFab user for several years and have a lifetime registration for DVD Copy and the program has always worked very well for me. I bought an iPad in March and recently a Seagate WiFi drive and decided that I would like to convert some of my movies to iPad format and load them into my Seagate. So I purchased a lifetime registration for DVD Ripper and I have yet to successfully convert a movie, I have tried more than a dozen so far but the process runs for a while and just stops (that is it gets to a certain point on the disc and just sits there). It fails at different points on different discs. All of the rips I tried at first were from original discs (not copies). I tried using the presets for the iPad and iPad3 both H264 and MP4 but they all fail. I don't get an error report it just stops. Because I have had these discs for a while sitting in cases I even tried copying one with the Fab copy program, it copied fine and when I tried to rip the copy it failed just like the others. I thought maybe it might have something to do with the new license code that I put in, so I uninstalled Fab ran CCleaner on my registry and reinstalled but still no luck.

This is one of the failures for Casablanca

SOURCE FILE TYPE: VOB
SOURCE VIDEO TYPE: MPEG
SOURCE VIDEO RESOLUTION: 640X480
SOURCE AUDIO TYPE: AC3
DVDFab VERSION: 8.1.7.8
DVDFab PROFILE: iPad h264
OUTPUT RESOLUTION: 720X540
OUTPUT CROP: Auto
OUTPUT BITRATE: 1399 KBS
OUTPUT PASSES: 1


Thanks in advance

Tom

[90312]

Try ripping the movie to the hard drive using DVD Copy and then to iPad using the hard drive folder as the source. Something is causing a communication breakdown between the software and the optical drive.

[b00bie]

Thanks for the prompt reply, after reading some of the other threads I discovered that the recommended fix involves using Ver. 8.0.8.5 which I am trying as I write this and it seems to be chugging along. Film at 11

[90312]

I hope it works for you but the logs don't look like the same issue to me?

[b00bie]

Well it did work for Casablanca, but I'm curious to see what will happen with something that has copy protection that came after 8.0.5.8. I have to say that I always felt that the money I spent for my Fab Copy program was a great deal but I'm a little disappointed that they have not been able to fix this rather serious flaw and are still charging top dollar for Ripper. I hope they are working on it. I will have more time tomorrow to try some other movies and see what happens. Thanks again.

Tom

[b00bie]

Well I had a little more time to play tonight and I tried two more oldies The Thing From Another World and The Maltese Falcon both of which I previously had been unable to rip and 8.0.8.5 just ran right through them. Then I decided to try Ghost Protocol and no surprise 8.0.8.5 was unable to read it, so I switched to 8.1.7.8 and it ripped it just fine. I don't know exactly what the criteria is that differentiates the discs but it definitely exists. I guess I will just keep both versions installed for now and hope that a fix will be forthcoming.


Tom