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Slavinator26 - Jun 4, 2005 - 7:32 pm

This is actually 2 questions. First of all I am wondering how do I exactly burn a movie I have in avi format onto a dvd. Second If I have a dvd and I want to burn it onto my hardrive is there a program I can download that will allow me to burn it onto my harddrive even though it has a dvd code on it from the mpaa?

bobw - Jun 5, 2005 - 8:02 am

Hi Max

Get MacTheRipper here;

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

Go can use that to extract the DVD to you hard drive and burn to a DVD with Toast or Popcorn, both from http://www.roxio.com

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Slavinator26 - Jun 5, 2005 - 10:29 am

Thanks Bob I got Mac the ripper and It gives me 2 folders with a bunch of files in them that I dont know what to do with to play do you know what I have to do to play these files? Also is there a free program that I could use to burn the dvd or can i use i dvd?

Slavinator26 - Jun 5, 2005 - 10:43 am

Actually I just realized thats my old file nothing hapened when I tried to burn my dvd to my movies folder why is that?

bobw - Jun 5, 2005 - 10:48 am

Max

The two folders should be audio and video, a vidoe_ts folder that you would burn using Toast or Popcorn, or any other burning program capable of burning DVD's.

You can download VLC from http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx and that should play the video_ts folder as a movie.

You can't burn to a folder on your drive.

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Slavinator26 - Jun 5, 2005 - 11:38 am

I just checked the website you gave me versiontracker.com and there doesnt appear to be a program called vlc on it. Also when I use idvd or imovie it doesnt allow me to move my video or music file into it

bobw - Jun 5, 2005 - 12:02 pm

Max

This is the page for the VLC program;

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14738


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Slavinator26 - Jun 5, 2005 - 12:25 pm

now i followed the instructions they gave and put in a dvd burnable disk and tried use the disk utility program to burn my files onto a disk. However it said opening session then it immidiately said closing section and there was a place to click cancel so i did because I was confused and the red x went away and the place that said cancel went away and now it left me on that screen also my dvd-drive wont open now what should I do?

Slavinator26 - Jun 5, 2005 - 12:26 pm

ok i was able to close the first screen but i think it ruined my disk and it still wont let me open my dvd drive

bobw - Jun 5, 2005 - 12:38 pm

Max

Open the following folders:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/

in order to find and double click the:
Eject.menu

This will put an Eject icon on your menu bar you can use to eject or open the CD.

VLC is a player, doesn't burn.

I would suggest getting a burning program like Popcorn or Toast for burning DVD's.

You can go through the programs for burning here also, some are free;

http://www.versiontracker.com/php/se...macosx&x=0&y=0



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