One of the featured titles below todays offering is Win X DVD ripper platinum which I have already installed .

It is bad enough choosing between different software companies as to which prog is better to have , let alone confusion between products from the same software company .

How is WINX DVD copy pro different from WinX DVD ripper platinum or the freeware author ?

Many years ago I had Nero installed and it just worked, and did everything I wanted. Am I alone in thinking your average punter wants ONE prog that rips,converts, copies and burns?

If you buy a car it comes with head lights , you dont have to go and buy the head lights separately, if you get my drift .

Peter B  –  15 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+130)

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Seems good, but the method to get rid of the Sony ARccOS, Macrovision RipGuard and Disney fake titles is very basic. All these copy protections methods are based on unreadable sectors (usually at the beginning of the main movie). These bad sectors are skipped when the DVD is played, but the rippers try to read them and fail. The good method to remove them is to analyse the navigation to find what sectors (or, more precisely, what cells) are never played, and assume that if there are read errors in those unplayed cells, they can safely be replaced by dummy sectors. WinX DVD Copy use a different method: it tries to read all sectors anyway, and when it encounters a read error, it skips a certain number of sectors (configurable in the GUI), and tries to continue to copy the file. That method has several drawbacks:

- The DVD drive will have to read bad sectors, and usually, when a read error is encountered, they lower the read speed to try to decode the bad sectors anyway, and they retry several times before giving up. Therefore, the rip process is very long.

- If the program assumes wrongly that 32 sectors (the default value) are to be skipped and the real beginning of the movie is somewhere within these 32 sectors, it will be replaced by dummy sectors too, and the player will probably have much difficulties to understand that! In other words, you may end up with an unplayable copy!

- The ripper may think that a scratch or some dust is actually a protected sector and replace it with dummy sectors, when it should have tried to load the bad sector anyway.

The method, however, has one advantage: it should work with any DVD, including DVDs with new forms of copy protections.

The program claims to be able to remove also the fake Disney titles. To do that properly, it has also to analyse the navigation, to find which titles are never reachable. Given the way it handles the bad sectors, I doubt it can do that without problems. Also, typically, it is difficult to assume that a ripper can always discover the fake titles, as that form of copy protection is in constant evolution. So, if a ripper can successfully remove the fake titles on a specific DVD, there is no guarantee that it will succeed with another one.

Conclusion: I suppose this giveaway should be kept, but used only when other rippers fail. If a DVD is not protected, it is much safer to use a good old program such as DVD Decrypter (no longer developed, but free and still available here: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/DVD_Decrypter).

r0lZ  –  15 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+76)

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OK, after finished backup 5 DVD disc use today giveaway winx dvd copy pro software. it works good on my win7 64 bit PC.
most feature is clone dvd to iso and copy dvd to single mpeg2 file. winx dvd copy is the only one that can copy Disney DRM DVD "Princess and the frog" ( maybe there is some other's but i do not know), the disney new released DVDs such as the "A Christmas carol " and "Princess and the frog" has 99 titles and the files size is more than 50 GB, most DVD duplicater or cloner software can't deals with it because the target ISO file is more than 50GB.
after tried 5 DVDs, the good thing :
1. Check Disney's fake
2. remove region code and CSS DRM
3. remove UOPs.
4. Copy to Single mpeg2 file ( very fast speed and good quality, i like the 5.1 surround sound, thx ).
5. the output mpg file compatible with PS3 and my TV . ( i do not want to burn to a disc, just copy to USB storage)
6. Copy DVD Chapter,it is very useful for my music show DVD. because it can find the song name.
7. very easy to use, easy UI is very important for me.
8. I canceled copy process, the output mpg file still playable.

things need to improve:
1. the main window is too big for my 17 inch monitor
2. Need a tool to mount the ISO file, though the VLC player can play the target iso.
3. a built in burner to burn VIDEO_TS folder not only the ISO image.( not tried )
4. have a option to set the default target path. the current path is the VIDEO library.
5. split the output MPG file to 4GB ( because PS3 only support FAT32)


OK, as i saied i like the winx's products. today's giveaway is helpful, winx dvd copy pro is much stronger than 80% dvd cloner software selling or freeware.
thanks GOTD & Digiarty

bbla  –  15 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+65)

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@3.Peter B and 5.Roy, Copy copies the DVD and Ripper rips the DVD to other formats.

rodken  –  15 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+41)

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Agree with #3. I have WinX DVD Ripper and WinX DVD Ripper Platinum from previous giveaways.

Anyone care to tell us what the difference is between those applications and today's GAOTD offering?

Roy  –  15 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+29)

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