Hey all:
Long time user. First time post. Just an update to everyone who is frustrated with the new copy protection on this. I have performed many experiments and here are the results.
US rental DVD copy (Region1)
Obviously, as everyone mentions, there are two possible titles to rip. (The longer one track 22 is not the correct one). Track 1 is the one you need @ 2:16:5x. Using AnyDVD current version and handbrake to re-encode track 22 works but obviously is not the right one. You will have a studder at the very beginning and loops the first 10 seconds once. It also blacks out at 1:20:xx for about 10 minutes. If you try to re-encode track 1 with handbrake, it immediately fails. Due to the protection, if you do a properties of the Video_TS directory on the DVD disk, it will register like 25GB (which is obviously not possible). I used the rip to HD feature of AnyDVD and it is successful but comes in at 6.xGB (ick, need a Dual layer DVD). It works, has all the menus, and the previews all work. What I did next was rip just the movie (track 1) from the DVD with AnyDVD and CloneDVD to the hard drive. This is successful. You get a working movie at 2:16:xx. I took this reprocessed DVD movie only Video_TS directory and was able to re-encode with Handbrake. Using default settings except for setting the file type to MKV and video processing to slow, I get a 700mb mkv that seems to playback without any issues. No noticeable video degradation. I mux the video, so I lose the 5.1 surround, but when you play this back on portable devices, it isn't noticeable and reduces the total file size dramatically.