DVDRip Module

Latest Version

Please note: the following files are for the 3.10 version of Showshifter
Download SS 3.10 DVDRip Module
Download SS 3.10 DVDRip Source Code

Version 0.33

Please note: the following files are for versions of Showshifter before version 3.10
Download Pre SS 3.10 DVDRip Module
Download Pre SS 3.10 DVDRip Source Code

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Contents

• Download
• About
• How to:
  • Install
  • Rip
  • Delete
  • Play
  • Place on home screen
• Acknowledgements
• Future plans
• History

About

This module allows you to rip a DVD from within ShowShifter, and also has the option to delete current rips. It requires DVDDecrypter for the ripping, and will ask for it the first time you try to rip. It also needs a place to store rips, which can be changed with the Change folder button. It defaults to "C:\" (as everyone should have a C:\ drive) but you probably want to change that.

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How to install:

1. Download DVDRip.zip
2. Make sure your zip program has directories turned on
3. Extract the zip to your ShowShifter directory
4. Run RegAll.exe

How to rip:

1. Activate DVD Library from the ShowShifter main page
2. Insert a disc
3. Select a drive
4. Change the title if you want
5. Press the rip button
6. Wait until rip is done before using the DVDRip Module again

How to delete a rip:

1. Make sure you are in the correct DVD titles folder (ie the one that contains all your rips)
2. Select the DVD you wish to delete
3. Click the trash can button
4. Answer 'Yes'

How to play a rip:

1. Activate DVD Library from the ShowShifter home screen or Additional Modules menu, depending on your setup
2. Make sure you are in the correct DVD titles folder (ie the one that contains all your rips)
3. Select the DVD you wish to play
4. Click the play button on the top of the screen

How to play a disc:

1. Insert disc
2. Make sure the drive list shows the drive the disc is in
3. Press the play button on the bottom of the screen

How to place DVDRip on the ShowShifter home screen:

Please note: Doing this will replace the DVD module with the DVDRip module

1. Run regedt32
2. Scroll to the key HKLM\Software\Home Media Networks\ShowShifter\Configuration\DVDRip
3. Add a dword value named ShowOnHome (if it is not already there) with one of the following values:
   • 0: Don't display module at all
   • 1: The default, only show in Additional modules list
   • 2: Show only on home screen
   • 3: Show in both places (1+2)
4. Close regedt32 and restart ShowShifter

Thanks to:

Burkheart for his SDK Getting Started guide and for the registry code I borrowed
Lusid1 for his help with correcting registry bugs
Travis Thompson & Shane Metzler (Codeguru) for their tutorial and code to open/close drives
The Showshifter development team, for their code examples
The authors of DVDSpy for Girder, for their DVD title code
Anyone else I missed (send an email if you think you should be acknowledged)

To Do:

• Automatically update display when a DVD is inserted
• Check that the drive is ready before updating Title on refresh (this is a slowdown issue)
• Fix bug where if CD Module is enabled a DVD has to be in the drive on startup for the DVDRip Module to recognise that a disc is a DVD (may be a Showshifter bug, as when the CD Module is enabled and a DVD is inserted only after Showshifter starts, it comes up asking to scan CDROM for Video files, not to play a DVD movie, as it should)

History:

• 0.10 - 9/4/2004
  • First release
• 0.12 - Unreleased
  • Fixed registry bug that crashed SS when DVDRip was activated
  • Moved tip text to uis, so it is easily editable
• 0.20 - Unreleased
  • Finally added ability to play from the DVDRip module. If you are going to use this feature, you must have the DVDModule properly installed and registered. Failure to do so will result in SS crashing
  • Added registry entry to control where user returns after playback has finished. If ReturnAfterPlay is set to 0 or doesn't exist, you will be returned to the main menu. Otherwise you will be returned back to DVDRip
• 0.30 - Unreleased
  • Added remote shortcuts for play (PLAY), eject (EJECT), change folder (SETTINGS) and rip (RECORD)
• 0.31 - 27/4/2004
  • Realised that the DVDModule will always return to the main menu, so removed registry option that was meant to control this
  • Fixed bug that prevented the DVD from playing
  • Created custom menu graphics
• 0.33 - 31/4/2004
  • Fixed file splitting problem that prevented playback
  • Fixed DVD name with spaces not being recognised
• 0.40 - 24/10/2004
  • Updated for SS 3.10. This version is only compatible with SS 3.10. If you want to use DVDRip on an earlier version, download DVDRip version 0.33.
• 0.41 - 21/11/2004
  • Fixed a (stupid) bug where it would always ask for DVDDecrypter.exe (Thanks Lusid)
• 0.42 - 11/1/2004
  • Updated theme for SS 3.10
  • Added option of showing DVDDecrypter
  • Added ability to set name via registry
  • Added option of cancelling a rip
  • Added test code to update title on WM_DEVICECHANGE, uses hooks and may not work
• 0.43 - 28/1/2004
  • Fixed play bug, now it will play the selected file
  • Added button to play disc, now that the DVD module remembers the last played file
  • Added Ability to set DVDRip as a replacement for the DVD module on the front page - to do so, see above