DVD Ripp

Question

*Update*
The lastest release of MediaCoder now includes a preset for transcoding for the Zen Vision series players. The encoding used will also work with Vision:M, making it very, very easy to get any video or audio onto your Zen. It also supports transcoding from VOB files, great for converting non-copyrighted (or copy-protected) dvd's to a file suitable for your Zen.
Also, If you are the owner of the IP (intellectual property) of a copy-protected dvd (and also of the copy-protection itself... unlikely, I know), and happen to li've outside of the United States of America, but flew into America just so you could visit the American Creative Forum; as soon as you get back to where you li've (assuming that they don't have a law equivalent to the US's DMCA), then you could go to doom9.net and get a free dvd decryptor, and then convert the resulting VOB files with MediaCoder, hypothetically speaking, of course.
Again, do not do the above unless you are absolutely sure that it is not punishable by law in the region in which you li've. Creative Labs nor I will be held responsible for any laws that might have be broken by you while using these instructions.
(I've got a feeling this isn't going to stay li've for very long...)
*Update*
The following piece of free/open source software streamlines the difficult task of transferring a DVD to your Creative portable device:Gordian Knot Rip Pack
Note that these tools should be used for non-commercial dvds only: dvds that are your own intellectual property (or IP, for short), or that you have explicit permission from the IP owner to rip. Any other use is prohibited by law.
But, if for some reason, you <EM>accidentely </EM>were to encrypt a family dvd that you produced solely on your own and wanted to later rip it for use on your zen product, then you could always "break" the protection by downloading thi... just kidding, I just thought I would see how many comments I got from the mods about that!
For other essential resources (including full-scale tutorials) related to dvd ripping, go to www.doom9.org.
Also, for the few audio/video encodings that Creative's own mediasource software fails to transcode, you can use this great (free and open-sourced) application, called Media Coder. This is my favorite application for converting between media formats.
If it is a video (or audio for that matter) stream (.asf) from the internet that you wish to rip, than the following application will do the job with its easy-to-use wizard: VLC PLAYER. (This program is also free and open-sourced) Once you download and install the binaries for your platform of choice, just click file-wizard, then 'transcode/save to file', 'next', 'select a stream', 'choose', enter the location of the stream in the 'open' textbox, and the rest from that point is easy...
Lastly, the following tools will allow you extreme flexibility in editing audio and/or video, both of which free and open-sourced as are all other tools listed on this post:
Audacity, The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor</LI>
Virtual Dub</LI>
Virtual Dub Mod</LI>
Nan Dub</LI>
And as mentioned earlier in this post, these tools are for people with the knowledge, but don't want to pay for proprietary software. If you want to learn how to rip a DVD, then you will need to visit www.doom9.org and read up on your tutorials.
Good Luck, and if you need any help, post your questions as a reply to this post. Thanks,advs89
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hmm... I don't like your choice of the word "yet". Besides, I think you are enjoying your moderator pri'veleges a little <EM>too</EM> much. (Oh, and this whole, smileywink thing is beginning to get a little scary, I think I am going to stop using these stupid emoticons - or since we are being so extrordinarily copyright-friendly on this forum, i'll say smileys...) Ooh, I'm overusing my ellipsis. (probably misusing them too)
<STRIKE>anyways, back on topic, I'll make sure to limit my discussion of the circumvention of dvd encryption to the fact that you <EM>can</EM> in fact, if you are a criminal, make use of a certain piece of software to be found on the popular (and not <EM>shut down</EM>) DVD transcoding enthusiast web page, doom9.org.</STRIKE>
Now that that's taken care of, i'll get back to my overuse (and probably misuse) of ellipsis and smileywinks...
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