The times they are achangin'

[setarip_old]

(OffTopic, I know - but important enough to share) I was recently surfing some forums and couldn't help but notice that our friends at SlySoft now realize (to paraphrase the XFiles movie) "They are not alone".

In a thread filled with what is essentially fanboy "Ours is better than theirs" postings, the range of criticisms regarding the recently released "DVDFab Passkey" (a competitor of both AnyDVDHD and, in a limited way to MakeMKV) runs the gamut from, "It's an exact duplicate of AnyDVDHD" to, "It doesn't work", to "Fengtao gets his codes from Doom9" to, "They'll charge lots of money" (Pot calling the kettle black) to, "I don't like the way they run their forum" to, believe this one or not, by a SlySoft forum moderator, no less, "I believe the publishers of MakeMKV and and DVDFab Passkey are working together" - I haven't yet stopped laughing about that one ;>}

Feel free to read the entire thread at:

http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=38830

As I said in a post at the Doom9 forum a couple of years ago, from a businessman's perspective, SlySoft has had a monopoly regarding BluRay copying/decrypting and, as such, they've been smart enough and entitled to "make hay while the sun shines" (And they've certainly played that for all it was worth!)

Based on recent events, as well as those to come in the near future,I'd suggest that those days are drawing to a close:

MakeMKV's development continues - and when it receives its fair share of notoriety (equivalent to free advertising), it will be recognized for being both a real player in the BluRay copying arena, the first "one-click' converter to MKV, the originator of streaming video without initially decrypting it, and so much more.

"Fengtao", a tenacious (to be gracious) businessman, is not going to disappear, regardless of what the folks at SlySoft and their forum would hope.

I would forecast that, unless SlySoft comes out with a brand new whizbang product, the "gravy train" will gradually grind to a halt

[dirio49]

the originator of streaming video without initially decrypting it

Please read what you write before you post it.
You cannot stream an encrypted stream, MakeMkv is decrypting it in memory, or you would not be able to play it.

As for Passdvd, I believe it is a copy of Anydvd or just a new version of Fengtao's previous DVD-region free stuff.

And as far, Slysoft wanting Fengtao corp to disappear , the same can be said for Makemkv, Dvdfab , or any other competitive product.
Nobody enjoys competition, except costumers.

[setarip_old]

@dirio49

Hi!

Please re-read my post carefully, as I said exactly what I meant:

streaming video without initially decrypting it

- and you have simply found another way to say the same thing. The user does not have to decrypt the file before transmitting for streaming...

Additionally, you say:

Nobody enjoys competition, except costumers (sic).

You betcha - and as I've suggested, it's about time that customers can benefit from competition in this particular arena ;>}

[dirio49]

If that is what you meant , then fine. But you can then say the same about anydvd and passkey to the same but to a degree.
All you need is vlc to stream for you then.

Later

[MilesAhead]

I've been trying the Passkey betas. It's handy to have and I'm curious what they will charge when it's out of beta. It's good to have more than one tool. Seems like on a disc to disc basis, sometimes Passkey will be slower than MakeMKV and other times, if MakeMKV is bogging with a particular rip, I'll use Passkey and just run MakeMKV on the output.

Just for grins I tried Passkey and used Imgburn to make an .iso to try in my WD player. Unfortunately it was an episodic video and although my WD player played, there was no way to navigate. It just started playing at the first file I suppose, and in the middle of an episode at that.

The point I guess, is that sometimes it rips a lot faster than MakeMKV, sometimes slower. If they want $100 for it my enthusiasm will vanish however.