Right, [ John Johnson ], and I do not even use Microsoft's free anti-malware, instead I check things at VirusTotal before running them.

I've seen too many situations where especially phishing, but also other invasions of browser watchers and redirectors, and even ransomeware and more take over a computer, and Norton or Microsoft just sits there, blind.
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OK, problem solved. I had to temporarily disable AVG Anti-Virus. Once I did that, installed fine.

GavinR, Same symptoms, disabling AVG made no difference. Happens once in a while on GAOTD. Never gets fixed. Just have to accept you are excluded that day and try another time.

Dennis W Comito, I just installed this giveaway. The registration box was able to accept the code on one line. (Menu, Register)

Gary, I sent a copy of the screen showing the registration before and after I entered the registration key. It doesn't fit on a single line which is the only way it's presented. The window can't be expanded so it will fit either so I'm not sure how yours worked. Like I said, I've been doing this for years and am very familiar with this process so not sure what the problem is.

Naomi, the problem could be with your browser. I like BRAVE, it has better privacy than say Firefox or Chrome. Because it has less tracking issues makes it run a little faster. Tor is another fine browser. Both are simple to install. Good Luck!

Naomi, I haven't downloaded yet but read it's a zip file. Chrome will block it. You must select KEEP from the download window; they confirm you want the keep option. Hope this helps.

Step by step [ Mick ], so ... you are running the GOTD "setup.exe" wrapper, and then ...?

Or, you installed the program successfully and are registering it, then ..."

Tell us more.
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Peter Blaise,

The quoted error is from the exe/gcd wrapper. It occours when there is some corruption of the https connection to giveawayoftheday.com giveaway validation/key server.
Can be caused by many potential faults in no particular order: malware, VPN's, firewalls, anti-malware software, bad WiFi conections due to interference from other stations or devices on incompatible adjacent channels etc.

So, [ TK ], you've seen the "... Giveaway of the Day Fatal error: key is invalid ..." error before, eh?

Do you have any idea of what [ Mick ] and others need to do to resolve this?

Thanks.
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Peter Blaise, Yes BUT it is impractical to try and provide comprehensive computer support via a heavily and inconsitently censored comments page. I listed several possible causes that could create the same error. That is as much as I am likely able to get away with here. Solutions for all possible causes on various operating system, hardware, driver versions, software climate as well as wifi or other network infrastructure and exostructure are well beyond the scope of any comments section and could take an entire ever growing website of articles to deal with. I learnt the knowledge I have learnt... If I can do it... no reason others cannot if they want to make sufficient effort.

Thanks, [ TK ] ... still it would be nice for GOTD themselves to provide a workaround reference for known issues, perhaps collected from our shared troubleshooting here.

Some vendors chose not to use the GOTD setup.exe wrapper, and some vendors just link to direct downloads from their own website to avoid their files getting outside their control and possibly becoming infected before delivery.

Good luck, [ Mick ] - try another computer, and maybe it's a sign that it's time to reinstall Windows, a seasonal requirement.

Peter Blaise, there are different reasons to use the exe/gcd wrapper, the formal one is so vendors can provide a custom pre-activated with no dependancy upon vendors servers or anything and not have the special build installer freely distributable beyond the giveaway period. The package is encrypted and has overly sensitive tamper resistantce which requires some anti-malware software to be disabled to permit installation. That is wholey legitimate.

Others use it to pretend they have a special installer that needs protecting to divert use of the giveaway license on the normal installer. Then there are others that choose to do their own online activation and control the activation time slot themselves, they do not normally also use the exe/gcd wrapper. And there are others that produce special installer that is named in a specific way for the giveaway and not in the specific way for normal downloads of the demo from their site. And that has a date check and if the date is valid for the giveaway they will pre-activate the product to "Registered User" and other vendors are just seeking testers for their work in progress and normally do not have a robust licensing system as part of their priorities. with the main legit reason there can be no secure workaround since only by the vendor releasing the pre-activated installer there is no workaround without an imense amount of data on the user with problem configuration which no end user normally supplies in the first instance. And without that information no investigation into what is the cause of the problem and what could be a the potential solution... without multiple question and answer comments going back and forth which cannot happen in a a comment section such as this where comments can just vanish never to be seen again for no apparent reason. It could be the use of flakey VPN's or 3G/4G dongles or routers... could be Wifi interference trouble before even getting to the individual computer configuration! My main advice if the exe/gcd wrapper is preventing you or anyone from participating in a giveaway due to some unresolvable technical problem with the wrapper first try and find the same version installer on the vendors site... some offer old versions of their products and also maintain an archive of their older installers on their site but still insist the giveaways installer is exe/gcd wrapped... other options are to use archive.org to retrieve the older versions installer to try with the supplied key... It may also be possible to get the wrappered program to install into a virtual machine but not on the host machine... one can hack a fresh working install on the host machine from the virtual machines copy of the installed files!

Thanks, [ TK ], as always, for excellent insight and exploration, a significant reason to come to the GOTD threads every single day.

Sarah, It would require a DVD drive, not a CD drive, and they probably don't bother mentioning that you need one for a DVD ripper for the same reason that a printer software package doesn't mention you need a printer.
You can still install the software and run it, it just can't really do anything without the accessory mentioned in it's name.
I apologize if it sounds a bit harsh.

Sarah, my computer is also not ancient and it has a built in DVD-writer, like all the PCs I had before, for special issues I also own an external BluRay writer. And that´s the hint for you, you can buy yourself an external USB-DVD-writer for only a few bucks and then you only need a DVD that´s worth ripping and you can try out this sort of program. In my eperience 99% of my many original DVDs are not worth ripping...

Sarah, I've had to buy an external DVD player/ripper. I was told by some city boy at Best Buy that DVD players weren't needed on computer anymore because people stream movies now. He's not one of the 19 million people in the USA that can't get internet.

Hi Tom Johansen,

This is Jenny from WonderFox, thank you so much for your support.

Our software supports you to flexibly choose the subtitles you want. If you need subtitles, tick the corresponding language. If you don't need any subtitles, do not check any subtitles.


Any questions please feel free to send an email to support@videoconverterfactory.com, your message are warmly welcomed.

Best,
Jenny

Hi [ Jenny ], is there a way to make a file where AFTER ripping, the file can be played and THEN subtitles can be toggled ON and OFF during playback in various video playback programs?

Otherwise, I think you are saying "turn subtitles ON during ripping, and then they will be written on-screen in the resulting file and can never be turned off during playback because they are written into the on-screen video".

So, is there any way to manage subtitles for toggling on and off during playback of the ripped file?

Thanks.
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Peter Blaise, Only with ripping to 1:1 DVD folder and playing the DVD folder contents in the other players.
ripping to other video container formats? Not with this or any other FFMPEG only based program, DVD subtitle streams are a propietary graphics technology while video file subtitle facilities are primarily a text stream or text file based technology and without comprehensive OCR and timing control it is not possible.

Aww, that's too bad, [ TK ], because I have some single, playable video files that have subtitles toggleable, I must find them and inspect them to reverse-figure them out.

And of course, it would be nice to pull out subtitles as even a separate sidecar file, there's gotta be software for that, folks can't really be hand-typing and hand-syncing all the subtitles that I see available for download, can they?

Do you or anyone on this thread have a link to a way to make either of those subtitles directly from the disk that we are ripping?

Apparently not WonderFox.

Thanks.