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DVDFab Passkey Lite Replacement

DVDFab is one of the most popular DVD Rippers and Blu-ray Rippers. Its free version is DVDFab Passkey Lite that can help you rip Blu-ray and DVD. However, compared with registered version, this free Passkey Lite has its own limitation that push some people search for the alternative to DVDFab Passkey Lite.

Lacks of DVDFab Passkey Lite

Since November 2010, the program is offered in three different versions: Passkey DVD works only with DVDs and Blu-ray Passkey only with Blu-ray media. Both versions are chargeable. Also, the free version Passkey Lite, which can work with both DVDs as well as Blu-rays exist, but some features of commercial versions not containing (for DVDs: no removal of CPPM / CPRM [10] and structural copy protection mechanisms as ARccOS, in Blu- rays: no support for BD + and no processing of discs that MKB higher included v12 or.

If the DVDFab Passkey Lite replacement can fulfill both Blu-ray ripping and DVD ripping needs with one-time payment, or the alternative can decrypt commercial Blu-ray and DVD, it will be great. To our surprise, there is such an alternative to DVDFab Passkey Lite.

Best DVDFab Passkey Lite Replacement

Pavtube ByteCopy is regarded as the advanced version of DVDFab Passkey Lite. It can deal with protections on any commercial DVD/Blu-ray movies. With ByteCopy, you can access unprotected contents from Blu-ray and DVD discs, Blu-ray ISO, DVD IFO/ISO, Blu-ray DBMV folder and DVD Video-TS folder. Version 4.8.6.7 of ByteCopy supports AACS up to v61 while DVDFab Passkey Lite only supports v11 and lower.

For Blu-ray, ByteCopy can remove encryption: region codes, AACS, BD+, UOP, HDCP, DRM, BD-ROM

For DVD, ByteCopy can remove protection: CSS, region code, RCE, Sony ArccOS, UOPs, Disney x-project DRM, etc.

Comparing with DVDFab Passky Lite, ByteCopy has another advantage in Blu-ray and DVD coping.

Copy Blu-ray/DVD: 1:1 backup Blu-ray and DVD to BDMV and Video-TS folder with original video structure; directly copy main title from Blu-ray and DVD to M2TS and VOB file.
Convert Blu-ray and DVD to SD/HD/4K MP4, MKV, MOV, WMV, FLV, 3GP, H.265/HEVC, AVI, M3U8, H.264/MPEG-4, DivX, XviD,  MPEG-2, MPEG- TS , etc.
Rip Blu-ray/DVD to lossless MKV with all subtitle and audio tracks and chapter markers and decrypt Blu-ray/DVD to multi-track MP4/MOV/AVI keeping multiple subtitle/audio streaming.

How to Rip Blu-ray and DVD with Pavtube ByteCopty?

Step 1: Load Blu-ray/DVD disc.

Insert Blu-ray or DVD into an internal or exnternal optical drive. Launch ByteCopy, click "File" > "Load Disc" button to browse to disc drive and import source movie into this app. When both Blu-ray or DVD disc exists, the program will load DVD disc first. And you can choose subtitle and audio track if your Blu-ray and DVD movies have multiple subtitle. You also can choose "Forced Subtitle" to show subtitle on display only when characters are saying foreign language.

Tips: The program can automatically select the main title (the one with longest duration or largest size) for you.

Step 2: Different ways to copy Blu-ray/DVD

Full disc copy 
Make a full disc copy by hitting the  icon on the top tool bar of the main interface.

Main movie copy

From "Format" bar, select "Copy" > "Direct Copy" to copy the main movie of the Blu-ray/DVD disc.

Lossless Multi-track MKV copy

Get a complete MKV output from Blu-ray/DVD by following "Multi-track Video" > "Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV(*.mkv)".

Tips: When you choose to convert Blu-ray and DVD to digital files, you can click "Settings" to adjust video and audio codec, size, frame rate, bitrate, etc.

Step 3: Start the conversion process. 

Go back to the main interface, press right-bottom "Convert" button to start to backup Blu-ray/DVD movies. When the convesion is completed, click "Open Output Folder" on the main interface to pop out the folder with converted file.

Finally, you can transfer your Blu-ray and DVD backups to External Hard Drive, NAS, Cloud Storage, etc to fulfill your media playback needs.

External Reference Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_ripper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DVD_ripper_software

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