The AnyDVD ripper removes duplicate files created by protection mechanisms. That's all we dag say, nobody can speak for the other part as we don't know the script code itself...Is there any difference in the resultant files if I use "Rip Video Disk to Harddrive" or xcopy from a batch script while AnyDVD is running?
1) When you use the "Rip video to Harddisk" option, AnyDVD rips the disc to a folder while removing the protections.My lack of knowledge of DVD protection techniques may be inhibiting my understanding of AnyDVD's value. Are you stating that "structural (and other) copy protections" are of no concern if one wishes to extract and encode just the main movie?
If so, is it necessary to encode directly from the DVD or is there a way to extract just the main movie and bulk encode many movies, possibly on a different machine, at a later date?
Why are you using DOS to extract the contents of the disc?
I had to wrap my head around that question for a minute myself.
So.. put in the disc. Let AnyDVD work it's magic so Windows doesn't see the copy protection.
Use XCopy (an archaic DOS command) to copy said folders and files to another location.