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Tinkerbella - Sep 11, 2005 - 10:01 am

hi there,
i am very new to mac, I have pc experience but have recently bouhgt a imac G5. I am finding it very different, almost hard to use.
I wanted to burn a dvd movie from my collection of movies, is this possible, i have tried in finder and imovie and dvd player but the burn icon dosen't highlight. I have operating system os 10.4 tiger. Can this be done or do i need other software?
cheers tina

bobw - Sep 11, 2005 - 10:15 am

Hi Tina

By 'Your collection of movies', do you mean commercial DVD's?
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Tinkerbella - Sep 11, 2005 - 10:44 am

movies i have made and put onto dvd
cheers tina

bobw - Sep 11, 2005 - 10:51 am

Tina

(1) Use MacTheRipper to rip you whole DVD (or a part of it - ie, for instance, with disgarding japanese subtitles or Disney pubs ;-) - to a VIDEO_TS folder on your mac

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22715

MacTheRipper is not compulsory as DVDImager (below) can clone a DVD; however (a) DVDImager cannot handle protected DVD - MacThe Ripper clean protection (b) MacTheRipper can copy part of DVD, DVDImager no

(2) use DVDImager to crate a DVD Image of this VIDEO_TS folder
http://lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/apples...dvdimager.html

(3) and finally use the burn facility of DiskUtility to burn a blank DVD

Just two things: (a) the final size of the image of the DVD to be burnt must in the valid range of a DVD-R: 4.7G !
(b) you must have at least twice the size of DVD to copy free on your hard drive to proceed this manual procedure !

PopCorn, a commercial app - http://www.roxio.com/en/products/popcorn/index.jhtml - does all this one trick plus is able to compress a whole DVD to fit in the range of 4.7G
Well, for 50 $ ....

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