Well reinstalling Fair use 2.6 did not do th trick. It actually made things worse. While trying to rip something after I had sucesfully installed the program. the PC up and stopped completly and re-booted itself.

So to all the people of thinking of doing this please be advised that it does not work and can cause worse damage then create a solution to our problem.

Took me 6 times trying to boot in safe mode to get my Desk top to run properly. When I finally did I got this mesage...

" the system recovered from a serious error. please inform Microsoft."

So if anyone has options would be good to here them.

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Ok so today I decided to go on the web and try and find an alternative that was as easy to use as Fair Use with the features that it holds. Well I found a few nice programs all that need to be purchased and then God knows if there will be support for them after the fact like we are facing at the moment with FairUse 2.6...

So after trying about 7 trial versions I was not satisfied with any programs that I found.

So I decided to take fair use 2.6 completly off my PC... Cleaned the regiestry the works.

Then I re-downloaded fair use 2.6 from the web site. Now I only downloaded the LE ( lite ) edition to see if it would work. I managed to get through building the chain without a problem... and then I went through the options section... Of course I could not make a 1400 MB file like I wished to do. So I stayed with 700Mb...

The program started to build the video chain and I had to stop it as I was leaving work. So tonight I will retry this and see where the Le edition gets me.


Personally I would find it pretty bad if the LE edition works perfectly and that the version that we donated too is usless for the most part. ( keeps crashing or just stalls in mid ripping ) 

 PS ... An added note from one of my earlier posts... When I had tried to deleat and re-install the first time it was from the link that was sent to me ( I.E. the full version of the program ) not the LE verion that I just re-installed.

Sucess to a point    Well fair Use 2.6 made its way through all the conversion process without a hitch. I watched a little of what I had ripped and the picture looks fine for a 700MB file. As mentioned above I prefer 1400 MB and 2 pases on the video.

So this morning I played the file and it oppened with VLC player. Now we all know that VLC have a great number of codecs in it already. Hence no issues playing the file. But when I came to play with WMP 11 which is my prefered methode to watch movies in... It hung on Accuiring codec.

So no way to play th file using WMP.

I will try the patched suggested by someone else on this forum. They suggested to change the VOB codec pack in the Fair Use program section.

Will see if this does the trick for the LE version

So here we are 3:55 PM a few hours have gone by since I changed the VOB pack in the Fair Use program file. Unfortunatly it did not solve the problem. The only codec that works is the VLC player.

WMP11 only plays audio. I did one thing though and that is that I did not restart the PC after I added the new codec pack. Tonight I will retry a third time to get this going without using VLC player.

Keep you informed as I go as always...

I see more people are looking at this thread but no one is posting... Anyone else have anything else to say about this?

trying my darnedest to get this resolved step by step..

But from whatI can tell the problem thus far without  the program crashing like it does on the full edition is that the codec pack seems very screwy.

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