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calethomas - Jul 31, 2005 - 5:04 am
Hi,
I have just recently purchased a new mac g5 powerdrive and want to know how to burn dvd's.I know how to watch dvds on my computer but thats about it. I've tried google but can't seem to find the basics on burnung dvd's. any help would be greatly appreciated
I have just recently purchased a new mac g5 powerdrive and want to know how to burn dvd's.I know how to watch dvds on my computer but thats about it. I've tried google but can't seem to find the basics on burnung dvd's. any help would be greatly appreciated
philippe99 - Jul 31, 2005 - 5:32 am
Cale, welcome on macosx.com
As far as burning data DVDs -or simply burning stuff you have on your machine-, I would recommend the Apple's guide:
http://www.apple.com/support/tiger/burn/
Especially the Burn Folder technology
If need to copy/rip DVDs, post back : I can give you some ideas to have a look to in this area.
Regards
Philippe
As far as burning data DVDs -or simply burning stuff you have on your machine-, I would recommend the Apple's guide:
http://www.apple.com/support/tiger/burn/
Especially the Burn Folder technology
If need to copy/rip DVDs, post back : I can give you some ideas to have a look to in this area.
Regards
Philippe
calethomas - Jul 31, 2005 - 5:54 am
hi , yeah thanx any info on copying/ripping would be great
philippe99 - Jul 31, 2005 - 6:07 am
Ok
Ripping a DVD allow you to clone the entire DVD on your hard drive or
to extract a part of it: the main title, with or without subtitles, with or
without foreign languages soundtracks, ...
When the DVD is ripped on the disk, you can burn a copy of it [A].
The http://www.ripdifferent.com/ site is a good reference of the major
Mac programs in this field.
I detail hereafter one free and one commercial way to rip a DVD and for
each of these solutions, the main advantages and disadvantages
The free solution
Ripping the DVD
One of the most pwerfull mac software for ripping DVDs is a freeware:
Mac The Ripper (MTR)
MTR allows you to:
* clone the full disc or only extract a part of it (main title, chapter,..)
* get rid of Macrovision protection, region lock and most of the encryption protection (including Sony Archos protection system) [b] [C]
Viewing the ripped DVD
MTR creates a VIDEO_TS folder on the hard drive containing the ripped
parts of the DVD. This folder can be opened in the Apple DVD player
(File/Open a VIDEO_TS) or in VLC [D]
Burning the DVD
The freeware DVDImager
(http://lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/apples...dvdimager.html) will create a burnable image of the contents of the VIDEO_TS folder. Even if
DVDImager is able to clone a full DVD, DVDImager cannot handle protected DVDs
Finally, we can use the burn facility of DiskUtility to burn our job onto a
blank DVD
This free method has two main disadvantages:
* the final size of the image of the DVD to be burnt must in the valid range
of a DVD-R: 4.7G !
* you must have at least twice the size of DVD to copy free on your hard
drive to proceed this manual procedure !
The commerical way (80$)
PopCorn (http://www.roxio.com/en/products/popcorn/index.jhtml) is able to
* rip the DVD (exratc the main title, suppress subtitles or soundtracks, ...) exactly as MTR
* to compress (and directly burn) the ripped results to fit in the range of 4.7G
However, Popcorn cannot deal with protected DVDs, so MTR will be use in this case for ripping
Remarks
[A] Creating a copy a legally bought commercial DVD may be forbidden in some countries
[b] Freing protections of a commercial DVD, even for a personal copy of a legally bought DVD, may be forbidden in some countries
[C] MTR has sometimes great difficulties to get rid of of Sony Archos protection
[D] VLC (www.videolan.org) is a the most powefull freeware viewer of movies on Mac. This soft is able to handle much more formats the Apple DVD Player (and its Quicktime layer) can handle.
Hope this helps
Philippe
Ripping a DVD allow you to clone the entire DVD on your hard drive or
to extract a part of it: the main title, with or without subtitles, with or
without foreign languages soundtracks, ...
When the DVD is ripped on the disk, you can burn a copy of it [A].
The http://www.ripdifferent.com/ site is a good reference of the major
Mac programs in this field.
I detail hereafter one free and one commercial way to rip a DVD and for
each of these solutions, the main advantages and disadvantages
The free solution
Ripping the DVD
One of the most pwerfull mac software for ripping DVDs is a freeware:
Mac The Ripper (MTR)
MTR allows you to:
* clone the full disc or only extract a part of it (main title, chapter,..)
* get rid of Macrovision protection, region lock and most of the encryption protection (including Sony Archos protection system) [b] [C]
Viewing the ripped DVD
MTR creates a VIDEO_TS folder on the hard drive containing the ripped
parts of the DVD. This folder can be opened in the Apple DVD player
(File/Open a VIDEO_TS) or in VLC [D]
Burning the DVD
The freeware DVDImager
(http://lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/apples...dvdimager.html) will create a burnable image of the contents of the VIDEO_TS folder. Even if
DVDImager is able to clone a full DVD, DVDImager cannot handle protected DVDs
Finally, we can use the burn facility of DiskUtility to burn our job onto a
blank DVD
This free method has two main disadvantages:
* the final size of the image of the DVD to be burnt must in the valid range
of a DVD-R: 4.7G !
* you must have at least twice the size of DVD to copy free on your hard
drive to proceed this manual procedure !
The commerical way (80$)
PopCorn (http://www.roxio.com/en/products/popcorn/index.jhtml) is able to
* rip the DVD (exratc the main title, suppress subtitles or soundtracks, ...) exactly as MTR
* to compress (and directly burn) the ripped results to fit in the range of 4.7G
However, Popcorn cannot deal with protected DVDs, so MTR will be use in this case for ripping
Remarks
[A] Creating a copy a legally bought commercial DVD may be forbidden in some countries
[b] Freing protections of a commercial DVD, even for a personal copy of a legally bought DVD, may be forbidden in some countries
[C] MTR has sometimes great difficulties to get rid of of Sony Archos protection
[D] VLC (www.videolan.org) is a the most powefull freeware viewer of movies on Mac. This soft is able to handle much more formats the Apple DVD Player (and its Quicktime layer) can handle.
Hope this helps
Philippe
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