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What's PathPlayer?
PathPlayer gives DVDFab the ability to copy DVD content only allowed to be played on a real DVD player. In this way, DVDFab will ignore unplayable content which may contain copy protection.
How PathPlayer works?
PathPlayer works like a real DVD player, it follows every play path of a DVD, checking everything that you can access on a DVD player with a remote controller. When PathPlayer finishes, DVDFab can know all the content that a real DVD player will read. The copy protection exists in the unplayable DVD content, DVDFab will not read it when copying.
Disable PathPlayer
Since PathPlayer may need several minutes to open a DVD, if you know the disc is not copy protected, you can disable it to save time.
Enable PathPlayer when necessary (default)
DVDFab will not enable PathPlayer in normal cases when opening a DVD. Once DVDFab detects a reading error when copying DVD, it will ask user to restart DVDFab to reopen the DVD using PathPlayer. In this way, DVDFab has the ability of opening DVD as fast as before, and uses PathPlayer when really necessary.
This is the default option for PathPlayer, since PathPlayer can take up to several minutes to open a DVD, DVDFab will try to avoid it if possible.
Always enable PathPlayer
If DVDFab doesn't use PathPlayer, and you know the disc contains new copy protection, you can enable this option to force DVDFab to use PathPlayer.
Scan BOVs (Button Over Video)
Button Over Video (BOV) is a feature seen more and more on recent DVDs. The purpose of BOV is basically to make a transition from your main movie to some extra that is in an another VTS. One good example is the white rabbit feature in The Matrix. Other examples are Bambi II, Stuart Little 2, Spiderman and Men in Black II.
Scan cells lasting less than # seconds
DVDFab scans the title VOBSs for BOVs. To speed things up and not waste time scanning parts of the VOB that are unlikely to contain buttons, DVDFab only scans cells that are of small to average duration. The preferences allow you to adjust the maximum duration of cells which will be scanned for BOVs.
Default value is '300', which is a cell time of 5 minutes.
Scan one VOBU every # VOBUs
Set it to 1 to scan every VOBU in the selected cells (slowest but safest). Set it to a higher number to by-pass some VOBUs within a cell. In any event, for safety, the first and last VOBU of every cell in the VTS is scanned.
Our tests show the default setting of 30 is reasonable. At this setting, the first VOBU is scanned, then 30 are missed, then another is scanned, then another 30 are by-passed, until the cell ends, at which time the last VOBU is scanned.
Default value is '30', which is about 15 seconds of video.

The Info page gives the users data on the DVD in the Source drive of DVDFab. It contains information on the name, size and other facts about the disc itself as well as valuable facts about the copy protection that DVDFab has found and the status of PathPlayer. The text in this window can be copied and pasted to other applications.




This can help in troubleshooting discs that have been difficult to copy. You can also have DVDFab read your backup disc and compare the results to the original. This page also contains the new Save IFO Files button, which writes the disc IFO and BUP files to a folder, along with a binary file of system and disc information. The developers may request some or all of this information to help you if a disc causes problems during the backup process.