DVDs on the A3?

[hamstrman]

OK, so my first question is this: is there any legal way that I, owner of legally purchased DVDs, can watch them on my A3? If so, how?

If not, what are you supposed to watch on your A3? Are my seasons and seasons of television on DVD useless? [help]

[doniago]

http://iaudiophile.net/forums/showthread.php?t=18453

On the question of legality- ripping DVDs with any sort of copy protection is currently considered a legal grey area in the US and many other countries...this includes pretty much any DVD that you would purchase in the US.

[Kylearan]

http://iaudiophile.net/forums/showthread.php?t=18453

On the question of legality- ripping DVDs with any sort of copy protection is currently considered a legal grey area in the US and many other countries...this includes pretty much any DVD that you would purchase in the US.

Yeah ... in the US, on the music front I hear the RIAA has a suit against some guy where one of the counts alleges that the user bought a CD, made an MP3 backup on his computer ... and still owns the CD, but that his MP3 backup is "unlawful."

We'll see if this gets to the high court. It'd be nice if they finally ruled, unequivocably, that making a personal backup of owned material constitutes "fair use"; that turning a DVD we own into an AVI file constitutes fair use, and so on and so forth.

Of course, most of us definitely do as we please with CDs and DVDs that are store-bought. And there's likely a very good reason the RIAA and MPAA haven't gone after many people for making personal backups of owned material.

The area may be legally grey, but if you already own it ... well, there's a pretty good defense out there. And certainly no one is going to know what you do with your own files unless you spread them out over the net.

[austinv]

better yet, see my instructions here for using H264-BP...

http://iaudiophile.net/forums/showthread.php?t=18637