You're completely misinterpreting the point. We're not saying that the AI scanner is causing the problem. The AI scanner is supposed to work like a DVD Player... it disregards anything that is not accessible via the menus and other standard DVD controls. That way, it can work on new protections without needing an update.
I'm wondering why the AI scanner is not doing its job with Blades of Glory R1.
I'm sorry but I do
not believe I am misinterpreting the point. People, please re-read the release notes for
AnyDVD 6.1.8.4.
6.1.8.4 2007 10 11
- New (DVD): New "AI Scanner(tm)" copy protection removal
- New (DVD): Added support for new copy protections
- New (DVD): CSS brute force cracking (region code mismatch) works
now much better with Arccos/RipGuard/ProtectDVD/FluxDVD ...
protected discs
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CSS still needs to be removed and the
A.I. Scanner does not handle removal of
CSS, AFAIK.
The apparent issue is that
CloneDVD is having a problem with what
AnyDVD is feeding it and saying,
"Wait a second, this content is still encrypted! I am not allowed to handle this!!!"
Now, this leads me to wonder one of two things:
(1) Is
CloneDVD falsely believing it is being fed data that is still encrypted when it is not?
(2) Did the changes recently made to the
CSS brute force cracking cause portions of the disc to not be decrypted or decrypted improperly.
Since
CloneDVD hasn't been updated I have to believe that the cause of the problem are recent changes to
AnyDVD. I also do not know how much
James changed in the
AnyDVD ripper code but it
is based off of code from
CloneDVD so it would be understandable that both are suffering the exact same problem which is the
PS 18 TCE error at the 5% complete mark when doing a full disc backup.