This is pretty new freeware... in fact, it was just posted today.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=156195

I am just now running it (after scanning for viruses) so far I've decrypted the opening studio / warning segments from a Blu Ray of mine (Dawn of the Dead). It appears to be working on the main title now (it may be a while). This appears to be legitimate, working & pretty damn easy to use so far...

It decrypted the film segment (along with all others) and played back with audio on Media Center Home Cinema...

This is cool, but I'm wondering how it's decrypting the keys.

I also found MakeMKV which rips and puts into MKV file in one shot... it's listed as 30 day trial shareware, but appears they release a new version free to use before it expires.

I've tried AnyDVD and the like before this, I should just note I'm a big fan of the simple freerip tools like DVD Decrypter.

DVD Decrypter is nice, but dated. Doesn't always work (properly) with newer titles. AnyDVD is nice. Does the job and you can use any DVD/Blu-Ray copying software.

I've read about MakeMKV, but never used it. MKV is a nice container for x.264 video along with DD5.1 or DTS audio.

I will have to take a look at Bl*rayDecr*pter. I have a feeling AnyDVD is still the way to go, but time will tell.

DVD Decrypter is dated because the author had to discontinue it after legal threats and newer protections have come out since. It's still very useful. I still use DVDShrink for ripping a lot of titles (not all). I've used AnyDVD for a few problematic titles.

BluRay Decrypter worked for all 4 titles I threw at it. So did MakeMKV.

On an interesting side note, MakeMKV gave me a 30GB mkv file of Dawn of the Dead. I used Handbrake's high profile setting with a few minor changes (loose anamorphic, bitrate quality a little over 55%, mkv container) to create a H.264-based file of same HD resolution that ended up being 2.95GB. Very close to the original Blu Ray in terms of picture quality. Audio was transcoded to Dolby Pro Logic II. It looks great. File size is huge, but this is hi-def after all.. some new xvid releases are 1.5GB at half the resolution.

I don't know if I'll be able to stream this wirelessly though, my network is G.

As you might expect, it absolutely stuttered when I tried to play the original 30GB video over the G network.

But then I played the Handbrake-made 2.95GB mkv file last night on a separate computer. It takes a few seconds to get started, but once it did, it played flawlessly over my wireless G connection. Seeking different points in the movie usually took a few seconds for video to catch up with audio. I was using Media Player Classic Home Cinema. The test machine was a machine with single core 3GHz chip with Hyper Threading enabled, also the video card was an AGP 3850 which I'm sure helps.

Going to try it on my older machines, expecting some of them to choke on the processor /GPU requirements of playing high def. I might install CoreAVC on machines that need it.

I was thinking that would've been a problem, I tried last night to play a clip of my clients animation over the network and it stuttered and froze every player. the file was a m2ts, I also ran into the same problem with some hd clips I downloaded off the ng's that manuf. use as demo clips. panasonic, benq, sony and others. and I run a gb network in my house with qos and trunking.

Yeah, I honestly didn't expect the 2.9G5GB file to work. I knew the 30GB copy would choke for sure. It does take a few secs to get the smaller file started, but it works well! Hi def (or at least high def transcode) over wireless G!

I tried watching the 2.95GB mkv on my Dell Optiplex GX150 which I put a 1.4Ghz Tulatin chip in. Note that the audio is fine, but the video just lags/drops frames... it's gotta be the old system. The video card is a low profile Radeon (7500?... I forgot)), looks like I only have been using the XP drivers for it :P. So I gotta download the Catalyst drivers and install. I was able to get framerate up a little by tweaking MPCHC's video settings. I'll laugh if I can actually get this to work!

..aaaaaaaaaaand after updating the GU drivers and adding CoreAVC to the GX150, and tweaking every possible setting in MPC-HC and Catalyst Drivers, the video drops frames like nuts during playback . The GPU is only a low profile AGP 4X. I could get a newer low profile GPU with more kahoonas I suppose, but... *shrug* it's going to have serious CPU bottlenecking. Better off for UT '99 and xvids

Trying a 2.4GHz Dell next

Thats awesome news. When I get a decent desktop/bd drive I'll be all over it.

Having a little time under the hood, I think I like MakeMKV a tad bit better, it's a little more developed and lets you select what you'd like to rip such as movie only. BluRay Decrypter is a little more about just copying all of the disc. Great to see free solutions for this stuff finally.

I'm very impressed with how sophisticated Handbrake has become. I frowned when I first found out the author removed XVID support, but the quality it gives is a lot better. I'll put it this way, once I got my first HD rip in the same resolution as the original with great quality considering the filesize, it made this man look at his XVID collection with a little less um, excitement. This kinda blows them away.

Best part is Handbrake builds are made for OS X, Windows and some Linux distros.

x.264 is nicer than XViD, but it's got a long way until it reaches XViD popularity.

Oh yeah, XVID isn't going away, it's convenient & I still like it for what it is.

I should say this isn't my first foray into this, I did some Handbrake mp4 tests a couple years ago using DVD video sourced material. I thought it was marginally better, but not enough to redo my whole collection. It really shines with high def sourced material, though, and I'm sure there's been plenty of optimizations since I last tried it.

MP4 is a popular container for x.264 codec. MKV seems to be the standard though. It does have more features than MP4.

I've known aMatroska was good for subs for a while. It's the format I've been setting all my hi def encodes for (I've done 4 more movies). Hey, I can easily stream it over the network to my machines that can handle high def *lol*, that's what I wanted. I don't know the ratio of MP4 vs. MKV for general hardware support. I'd just buy something like an Oppo.

My main use for MP4 is for my iPod, not much else. I did some DVD rips for it for when I travel. Can watch a movie on the plane or I can use the video output to a non high def set (lots of hotels still have them) where I can play movies that are almost DVD quality resolution.

I don't really follow scene standards though I don't thumb my nose at them either. I am amazed the quality some release groups are able to get into a small XVID file... and other times I wince at the blocking during some scenes I get when viewing on a 24" monitor. The whole splitting movie in half to fit on 2 CDs seems kind of old by now- why not just burn a single file to DVD if you want to use it on hardware? Some Divx-enabled DVD players won't even *read* CDs.

Just use NanDub or VirtualDub to join the two 700MB files. That way you can put three 1.4GB movies on a 4.7GB DVD to watch on a "DiVX" DVD player.

Via "direct stream copy", right. I've used VirtualDub and I think VirtualDubMod. It's nice to have a DVD full of XVIDs. Used to play them in my office on days I worked at home.

I've had a lot of success with this, have encoded about 10 movies so far.

The only HiDef film so far that's given me trouble when streaming over wireless G is my encode of Clash of the Titans (2010 Version). The file size is about 4.48GB, and I started getting skipping when playing over the network.

I prefer players that automatically 'stack' multi disc videos.

Recent encode:

The Shining
Video is same resolution 1920x1072 pixels
Audio is 48000Khz 2 Channel Stereo Dolby Pro Logic II AAC
File size 3.87GB
Plays fine over my Wireless-G network.
Definitely won't work on something like an iPod or AppleTV.