[mythtv-users] DVD Rip and Recent DVDs

[Rich West]

tgate wrote:
> I have a large library of DVDs all of which play fine on my mythbox,  
> however, on some of the newer ones that carry a "copy protected"  
> label I cannot rip them into my video library.  Which is a bit of a  
> pain.  Browsing the library is great but kind of pointless if I have  
> to then go look in a closet for the rest.  Is there a way around  
> this?  When I try to rip these all I get is a federal warning and  
> ratings screen.

More than likely, you are bumping in to the new(er) ARccOS copy
protection scheme.  Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARccOS

-Rich