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micahgretski - Sep 10, 2005 - 11:15 pm
Greetings,
I am figuring out my new system (Tiger) and enjoying the process. I backed up some of my DVDs using disc image and it was quite easy. I now want to burn some movies to DVD and can't figure out how to do it due to the content being greater than the 4.7 GB allotted. I am guessing I need an extraction software (i.e., Mac the Ripper) and a compression software as well. Is this the case or can it be done within the OS or iLife? If not, is there free software out there for this? What is the process? All tips and advice are appreciated.
I have a G4 Dual 450 w/ 768 MB RAM running Tiger OS X 10.4.2. My DVD drive is the Pioneer 109. I can burn dual-layered discs but the cost of the media has kept me to the 4.7 GB discs.
Thank you in advance.
Micah
I am figuring out my new system (Tiger) and enjoying the process. I backed up some of my DVDs using disc image and it was quite easy. I now want to burn some movies to DVD and can't figure out how to do it due to the content being greater than the 4.7 GB allotted. I am guessing I need an extraction software (i.e., Mac the Ripper) and a compression software as well. Is this the case or can it be done within the OS or iLife? If not, is there free software out there for this? What is the process? All tips and advice are appreciated.
I have a G4 Dual 450 w/ 768 MB RAM running Tiger OS X 10.4.2. My DVD drive is the Pioneer 109. I can burn dual-layered discs but the cost of the media has kept me to the 4.7 GB discs.
Thank you in advance.
Micah
philippe99 - Sep 11, 2005 - 10:37 am
Micah, welcome to macosx.com
Yes, in your case, it would be usefull to rip the DVD -well, the DiscImage- to remove unwanted soundtracks/subtitles and obtain a size < 4.5 Gb
Here are some of my advices in this domain.
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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 (extract 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 handle protected DVDs, so MTR is to be used 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.
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In your case, the only think I do not know is if MTR will see the image of the DVD after you'll have mount the image; I never tested this case
Hope this helps
Philippe
Yes, in your case, it would be usefull to rip the DVD -well, the DiscImage- to remove unwanted soundtracks/subtitles and obtain a size < 4.5 Gb
Here are some of my advices in this domain.
------
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 (extract 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 handle protected DVDs, so MTR is to be used 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.
----
In your case, the only think I do not know is if MTR will see the image of the DVD after you'll have mount the image; I never tested this case
Hope this helps
Philippe
micahgretski - Sep 14, 2005 - 2:08 pm
Thank you so much, Philippe. I have not yet done a run-through using your recommendations but the information and help you offer is clear. I am sure I will be able to succeed and it seems like Popcorn is the easiest solution.
Thanks again for your help. I may be back soon...
Micah
Thanks again for your help. I may be back soon...
Micah
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