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markbraz - Jul 18, 2005 - 9:04 am
I have recently purchased a 17" Imac G5, I am completely new to Macs and a relative novice to IT. Whilst I use a PC at work I have never owned my own. I am interested in burning DVD Movies but am restricted by the single layer superdrive on my mac and can't seem to get anything to fit.
Is it possible to add a dual layer drive either internally or externally like the newer models of the G5 or is there any software out there like DVD-Shrink for the PC.
Is it possible to add a dual layer drive either internally or externally like the newer models of the G5 or is there any software out there like DVD-Shrink for the PC.
philippe99 - Jul 18, 2005 - 9:16 am
Mark
Welcome on mac osx.com
(1) One of the free solution.
a. Mac The Ripper will allow you to rip parts (or the enire) of DVD Movie onto your hard disk. It also help you to get rid of some protection.
b. DVDImager will create a burnable image of what macTheRipper had extracted
c. The Apple's DiskUtility (or Finder) burn utility will physically burn the DVD
However, if the rip DVDs is greater than 4.3GB, you'll be not be able to burnt it.
See also: htpp://www.ripdifferent.com
Note that MacTheRipper seems to fail -in certain circumstances- to get rid of of the so-called Sony ARCos protection
(2) the commecial solution:
PopCorn from Roxio (the creator of Toast) will extract some parts of the DVD and burn it.
If the rip parts size is gretaer than 4.3GB, Popcorn will compress the video (with a small quality downgrade) to fit the 4.3G limit size
Popcorn does not work on encrypted DVDS so that MacTheRipper will usefull too in this solution
Popcorn is around 80 $
Is this gives a small idea of the different ways you can have for ripping and burning DVDs ?
Regards
Philippe
Welcome on mac osx.com
(1) One of the free solution.
a. Mac The Ripper will allow you to rip parts (or the enire) of DVD Movie onto your hard disk. It also help you to get rid of some protection.
b. DVDImager will create a burnable image of what macTheRipper had extracted
c. The Apple's DiskUtility (or Finder) burn utility will physically burn the DVD
However, if the rip DVDs is greater than 4.3GB, you'll be not be able to burnt it.
See also: htpp://www.ripdifferent.com
Note that MacTheRipper seems to fail -in certain circumstances- to get rid of of the so-called Sony ARCos protection
(2) the commecial solution:
PopCorn from Roxio (the creator of Toast) will extract some parts of the DVD and burn it.
If the rip parts size is gretaer than 4.3GB, Popcorn will compress the video (with a small quality downgrade) to fit the 4.3G limit size
Popcorn does not work on encrypted DVDS so that MacTheRipper will usefull too in this solution
Popcorn is around 80 $
Is this gives a small idea of the different ways you can have for ripping and burning DVDs ?
Regards
Philippe
markbraz - Jul 18, 2005 - 9:22 am
Phillipe, thank you, the information was very useful. I have a copy of Mac the Ripper but have struggled to get the Movies below 4.3GB. I was not aware of Popcorn but will have a look into this,
Many thanks,
Mark.
Many thanks,
Mark.
philippe99 - Jul 18, 2005 - 9:26 am
Hope this helps Mark.
And welcome in the ripping team: feel free to ask any other questions in this field, either to the macosx.com pool, either directly to me:
philippe99 (at) macosx (dot) com
Thank you for using macosx;com
Phil
And welcome in the ripping team: feel free to ask any other questions in this field, either to the macosx.com pool, either directly to me:
philippe99 (at) macosx (dot) com
Thank you for using macosx;com
Phil
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