Virtual Drives and DVD Decrypter

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Virtual Drives and DVD Decrypter

Postby LivingFlame » Tue May 12, 2009 6:50 pm

So I've taken to backing up my DVD's on my HDD by ripping ISOs via DVD Decrypter. All well and good. Here's my question. If I mount the ISO to a Virtual Drive, is there a way to get DVD Decrypter to recognize that drive? I was playing with it last night, but I couldn't manage to get it to work. If it is possible, it just seems that it would be convenient to be able to utilize such a method to rip footage as opposed to digging out a DVD to rip.

If not, then I can stick to just using the actual DVD to rip. Not a big deal. :P
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Re: Virtual Drives and DVD Decrypter

Postby Zarxrax » Tue May 12, 2009 7:37 pm

If you have an ISO it's probably already decrypted, so you could just load the vobs straight into DGIndex. Of course they wont be split into chapters or anything though.
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Re: Virtual Drives and DVD Decrypter

Postby LivingFlame » Tue May 12, 2009 8:19 pm

Does DGIndex take ISO files directly? The only reason I was even considering virtual drives was because I assumed I'd have to use a ripper of some sort to get to the VOB files. If that's not the case then that just made things simpler than I even imagined.

I'd check on this myself but I'm not at my PC right now; I'm on my Mac.
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Re: Virtual Drives and DVD Decrypter

Postby AaronAMV » Tue May 12, 2009 8:42 pm

Do Macs have a WinRAR type program? I know that if I make an ISO, I open it as if it were a .rar or .zip package, and extract the whole VIDEO_TS folder.
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Re: Virtual Drives and DVD Decrypter

Postby LivingFlame » Tue May 12, 2009 8:56 pm

It does have a program to extract RAR files, yes. However, my ISOs are on my PC, so I think it's a moot point. I'm just not at my PC to test these things right now. Once I get back to it, I'll play with these things myself, so if nobody answers, I think I can manage with the information Zarx was kind enough to give.
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Re: Virtual Drives and DVD Decrypter

Postby Zarxrax » Tue May 12, 2009 9:01 pm

Nope it cant open isos directly (at least i dont think it can). You need to mount them first.
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Re: Virtual Drives and DVD Decrypter

Postby LivingFlame » Tue May 12, 2009 9:08 pm

Ah, ok, I see what you're getting at now. That sounds good, then; I'll just do that.

Thanks a lot for the info.
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