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07-10-2015, 03:49 PM
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While researching/Installing/Un-Installing DVD Decryptor,(Got Spooked!) I read on Wikipedia that the author was ordered to stop it (2009?) due to those darned copy write laws, But certain elements of it are incorporated into GSpot?...(This is concerning analysis of my home-made video/audio files only!)

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Why are you using GSpot? Hasn't been updated since The Flood. No, it has no decrypter.
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Why are you using GSpot? Hasn't been updated since The Flood. No, it has no decrypter.
It's still mentioned in the DFAQ Capture guides>Understanding your source. AS a way to see details about what kind of file you have, if your not sure. Is there a newer/free program available?..(I have some files I capped, also some I ripped from Home-made DVD's a few years ago, and forgot which is which..many are duplicates of the same home-shot footage)..and still refining/naming my PC file system so I can keep track...(I'm Just getting back into all this, after a few years of stepping away from it).

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Actually you do get this cute GOP schematic on the right-hand side of GSpot, which can come in handy. But many formats have outgrown it. There's much more detail in MediaInfoXP. No installer. Just unzip it into a folder or desktop and double-click to run it.
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DVD Decrypter has nothing to do with Gspot.

But both tools are still very useful.

At least 99% of all TV show discs have no next-gen protections (or even none at all), so DVD Decrypter is the best tool to rip discs to ISO files. For example, to use with a WDTV, as I do.

Most AVI and MPEG sources still work fine with Gspot, and MediaInfo is not needed. Only when the source is newer, like MP4 or MKV, do I ever bother with MediaInfo. Some of the Gspot info is easier to see and find. That's why it's on the guides here, as related to DVD creation.

The author of DVD Decrypter (LIGHTNINGUK!) went on to make ImgBurn.

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DVD Decrypter has nothing to do with Gspot.
Boy,did I screw up! and Sorry!..I should have titled this thread "Is DVD Decryptor included in ImgBurn?"..not Gspot. I went back to the Wikipedia description of Decrypter and re-read the following: "The program can also record images to disc — functionality that the author has now incorporated into a separate product called Imgburn"...My Bad!...And I will re-install Decrypter.

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ImgBurn and DVD Decrypter really have little in common. One is geared towards burning, and the other reading. True, each has some limited abilities to either read (Imgburn) or write (DVD Decrypter), but that's not the main focus of the software.

As far as being scared -- there's no reason to be. None of us here are suggesting that you use it for illicit purposes. In fact, in the 2010s, the mere idea of "backing up rentals" (the main problem at the time) is a quaint anachronism. It's about as silly now as being worried about the little handheld tone generators that "rip off" pay phones. The disc rental market is essentially gone now, and thus the boogeyman rhetoric against DVD Decrypter. It's still a very useful software, regardless of its past history of being abused.

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