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Archos 605 cinema plugin help

Sep 28, 2008 3:42AM PDT

I just bought an Archos 605 with the cinema plugin. I want to use it to take movies with me on long trips without having to carry a bunch of DVDs around. It's my understanding that the cinema plugin supports the .vob file type, but when I copy .vob files (or even the whole VIDEO_TS) folder from one of my DVDs to the Archos and select one of the .vob files to play, my player just hangs. I did some web searches that indicated that files larger than 2GB would be a problem, but I've checked, and the largest of my .vob files is 1GB. Is there some intermediate step or conversion that I am neglecting?

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possibly copy protection
Sep 28, 2008 4:21AM PDT

If the DVDs in question are commercially available pre-recorded DVDs (just to distinguish from home movies), more than likely copy protection is what is keeping them from getting onto your player. If you can overcome that obstacle, then you should be able to get them on. There is software available to help with that, but I can't go any further on the subject because it is illegal to break copy protection on DVDs in the United States. Not to say that it isn't done. Just that further discussion on the specifics would violate the TOS of the forums and cause this thread to be locked.

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yes, you're right
Sep 28, 2008 9:46AM PDT

That is probably my problem. Thanks for the tip.

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Does it Work?
Nov 7, 2008 11:45PM PST

Did it work? I want to buy The Archos 5 just for that, to save my unprotected dvd movies to the hard drive and play them anywhere.

Does it work?
Does it support dvd features?
Does it support Multilanguage?
Can i see subtitles?

Thank you