Introduction to Encrypted DVDs

Encrypted DVDs are DVDs that have been encoded with a digital protection mechanism to prevent unauthorized access and copying of their content. Common DVD copy protections include CSS (Content Scramble System), region coding, Sony ARccOS protection, RipGuard. For example, the CSS method simply encrypts or scrambles the video data on a DVD so that it can’t be viewed or copied illegally. A DVD-ROM or a DVD player which should be CSS licensed can only play those encrypted DVDs. And not all DVD ROMs and players are licensed by CSS.

If you own an encrypted DVD, you are allowed to decrypt and copy DVD to hard drive for your personal entertainment instead of commercial use. In this article, we will show you how you can do this. Or you can watch this short video to get your answer quickly.

How to Copy Encrypted DVD to Hard Drive

DVD Copy Software

DVDFab DVD Copy allows you to losslessly backup or compress any copy-protected DVD disc to a blank disc directly or save it as an ISO image file or folder on your hard drive.

Here we introduce DVDFab DVD Copy to show you how to copy proetcted DVDs to your own hard drive. DVDFab DVD Copy not only access any encrypted DVDs but also lets you save your encrypted DVDs as DVD folders or ISO files which can be played on CSS-unlicensed DVD ROMs and players.

Key Features of DVDFab DVD Copy

• Auto-detect and remove any encrypted DVD, even newly purchased ones
• Work with DVDFab DVD Cinavia Removal to remove cinavia proetctions
• Copy DVD discs to DVD-9 or DVD-5, or save them as ISO files or Folders on HDD
• Support six copy modes: full discs, main movie, split, merge, customize, and clone/burn
• Support bacth coping at GPU-accelerated speed
• Synchronize all the meta information of the source DVD while coping

How to copy an encrypted DVD using DVDFab DVD Copy

Step 1: Download and install DVDFab 13 for either Mac or Windows system. Then insert your encrypted DVD disc into DVD ROM drive and select a Copy Mode. 

Step 2: Launch DVDFab DVD Copy and click the "Copy" tab. The program should automatically load the disc. If not, then click the big "Add" button and select the DVD ROM to load the disc. Then choose a copy mode like "Main Movie".

Step 3: Customize the output decrypted DVD

DVDFab has automatically removed the DVD encryption during loading the source DVD disc. Next, you can click the "Output size dropdown menu" to select either "DVD5" or "DVD9", and also personalize DVD subtitles, menus, audio tracks, preferred sections, and other details you want.

Step 4: When you are ready to convert DVD to ISO or create a Folder on your hard drive, click the ISO or Folder button and choose the location where you want to save a copy of your encrypted DVD. Finally, click the "Start" button and wait till the process completes. 

Note: If you want to copy your DVD in a 1:1 lossless ratio then select the "Clone/Burn" function from the "Copy Mode Switcher".

How to Rip Encrypted DVD to Hard Drive

DVD Ripper Software

DVDFab DVD Ripper allows you to rip and convert any encrypted DVD / ISO file / Folder to any video & audio format playable on any device, media player, or home theatre.

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Another method to copy protected DVDs is to rip encrypted DVDs to digital video formats. DVD ripping simply means converting the DVD discs to other digital video formats. So that we can save and play those DVD video files on multiple media players. 

Key Features of DVDFab DVD Ripper

• Remove protections from newly purchased DVD disc
• Rip and convert DVD to any video & audio format without lossing quality
• Rip DVD to more than 260 preset mobile devices 
• Support multitasking mode at lightning-fast speed
• Offer a built-in video editor to customize and edit your video
• Upscale DVD video resolution from 480p to 1080p with Enlarger AI

How to convert encrypted DVDs to digital with DVDFab DVD Ripper

Step 1: Open the DVDFab program and click the "Ripper" tab. Insert the DVD disc and load it into the program. 

Step 2: After you load the disc, the following information will appear in the program window. There are many options for customization, such as chapters, audio tracks, and subtitle.

• Click the "Profile Dropdown Menu" to choose output video format or mobile device of your choice. 

• The "Advanced Settings" "Video Edit" and buttons allow you to change the video settings and edit the outptu video, such as cropping, trimming, merging, adding watermarks and subtitles, and even adjusting video color as you like.

Step 3: After that, select ISO or Folder as the output destination and click the "Start" button to start ripping the encrypted DVD and save them on your desired hard drive.

Conclusion

So you now know how to decrypt encrypted DVD discs, and copy and save them as ISO or a folder on your PC’s hard disk. You also learned to rip encrypted DVDs to other video formats that you can save on your hard drive. The interesting thing is that the DVDFab DVD Copy will automatically remove encryption and copy DVD to computer.