dvd ripping

Gillo

I'm runining 10.3 and am trying to find a dvd ripper to run on it.

Any suggestions??

Yoda

Assuming that you are using the program to make, for instance, a zone 1 DVD on a zone 2 player (say, if a friend in the US sent you one) the process is a little complex. You use MacTheRipper to copy the contents of the CD to your drive. Then you can use DVD Imager to make a disk image of the DVD. Then you use the OS X application Disk Copy to burn the DVD (you don't need Toast). I did this a month or so ago and it worked. I got advice from http://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=156359

What I would like advice on is how to convert 700MB .avi files into a format that can then be burnt to a proper DVD. I do have QuickTime Pro, but don't know if iMovie or iDVD can do this. Apparently there is a PC program called Nero that will do this.

Yoda

Someone asked the same question on Apple's QuickTime discussion site which yielded a link http://webpages.charter.net/ernsta/macvideo.html which might be the ticket.... though it mentions Toast, and I'd rather not have to buy Toast since I've got Disk Copy.... Let's see now.

babypink

i find the best tool just for ripping the DVD is OSEx http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/~afaversa/

once you've ripped the DVD, you can rip in a few different formats, i find the best is Prog Streams, or DVD folder if you just want to lift the DVD folder while decrypting it.

Use ffmpegX http://homepage.mac.com/major4/ to encode into basically any format out there. if you just want to do a quick re-compress to fit onto a 4.7Gb dvd, there is a section on the tools tab which lets you do this.

seagizmo

babypink wrote:

i find the best tool just for ripping the DVD is OSEx http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/~afaversa/

once you've ripped the DVD, you can rip in a few different formats, i find the best is Prog Streams, or DVD folder if you just want to lift the DVD folder while decrypting it.

Use ffmpegX http://homepage.mac.com/major4/ to encode into basically any format out there. if you just want to do a quick re-compress to fit onto a 4.7Gb dvd, there is a section on the tools tab which lets you do this.

Tried this today, been playing with VLC but the encoding don't play on anything else. Worked a treat!

SG

babypink

cool!

if you go to the DivX homepage, http://www.divx.com , there's a divx plugin for quicktime which lets you playback using quicktime naturally, also enables DivX in the system. Assuming you've encoded in DivX. H.264 will only playback on VLC at the moment. MPEG4 should playback on anything.

JimiMac

I haven't delved into any of this DVD stuff yet but I am hoping to do a bit of experimenting in the near future.
Where do the likes of Toast, Jam and Popcorn fit into the picture. I know they're not free but do they have any features worth paying for?

seagizmo

JimiMac wrote:

I haven't delved into any of this DVD stuff yet but I am hoping to do a bit of experimenting in the near future.
Where do the likes of Toast, Jam and Popcorn fit into the picture. I know they're not free but do they have any features worth paying for?

I would use the programs detailed in this thread, they are pretty handy. Takes my G4 Powerbook about 5 minutes to rip th vob then depending on the next compression format anywhere from 1 hr to 6 hours.

Having fun with the LOTR ROTK Audio tracks!!! There are bloody loads of them! Can't figure out which is which!

SG

deevey

HandBrake, is the one i'v been testing the last few days, will encode to just about any codec you have installed (divx/xvid/mpeg2/mpeg4 etc...),

Seems to work like a charm, just select the correct VOB file from the dropdown (take an educated guess from the filesize), choose the bitrate to encode to (trying to compress to a particular filesize doesnt seem to work yet).

do a search on versiontracker for it.

takes around 5 hours to rip and compress from DVD.. so not the fastest, havent tried copying the files to a hard disc first, and i'm guessing that would / should, be alot faster.

Laters

Steve