problems with iDVD and copying a DVD to the hard drive

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adpowersadpowers
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I am going on a plane in a few days and I wanted to be able to watch the DVD off the hard drive (to save battery life among other reasons). I copied both the video_ts and audio_ts folders to the hard drive. However, when I open the video_ts folder, the movie looks horrible. It is like there was some encoding problem. Everything is the wrong color, horribly pixelated, and it stutters. Also, the menus are unusuable. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks,

Andrew

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    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    try creating a disc image in disc copy that is identical to the dvd and then use "open disc" from the file menu in VLC
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    adpowersadpowers Posts: 188member
    It took me a little while to figure out VLC meant the VideoLAN Client (if that is what it is). I downloaded it and tried to Open Disc, but it didn't detect the DVD. How am I supposed to make a disk copy? I tried using the settings "CD/DVD Master" with no compression, but it doesn't seem to accept that in VLC. What would the correct options be? Thanks,

    Andrew
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    adpowersadpowers Posts: 188member
    Okay, I think I figured out how to do it. You control-click on the DVD and then select duplicate. This appears to make an image that acts just like a DVD. It will take a while to finish, but I will report back if it works.
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    adpowersadpowers Posts: 188member
    Okay, that didn't work. It just made a folder on the desktop with the DVD icon, not like an image or anything. I am stumped.
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    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    grab the DVD from your desktop and drag it onto your harddrive. it works for me.
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    adpowersadpowers Posts: 188member
    Whenever I do that it just creates a shortcut to the DVD in / .
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    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    press the "alt" key, then drag & drop. a "+" appears beneath your cursor.
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    adpowersadpowers Posts: 188member
    Okay I'll do that, but I just realized I have more problems than that. When I try just a normal DVD in the DVD drive, the DVD player screws up the movie. It has a whole bunch of little lines on the screen, evenly spaced. I can't take a screenshot with the DVD player open, but I can take a picture of the screen with a camera and post it if you like.
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    adpowersadpowers Posts: 188member
    I tried that way of copying to the hard drive. It worked just as well as any other. I think the problem is in the DVD player. I downloaded 3.1.1 from Apple's website. I am not sure if it was corrupted when I installed .2.3 or if I had an old version or what. So, it plays normal DVDs again just fine. However, when I try to watch DVDs copied to the hard drive, it shows the FBI warning, but the menu doesn't appear. I luckily managed to use the arrow buttons to play the movie. It didn't show the video from the movie and the audio was choppy. Also, when I try to use VLC to watch a .VOB file, it switches between a 4:3 aspect ratio and a widescreen one. It doesn't play any audio or video, it just jumps between the two sizes.



    Andrew
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    greg123greg123 Posts: 58member
    [quote]Originally posted by adpowers:

    <strong>I tried that way of copying to the hard drive. It worked just as well as any other. I think the problem is in the DVD player. I downloaded 3.1.1 from Apple's website. I am not sure if it was corrupted when I installed .2.3 or if I had an old version or what. So, it plays normal DVDs again just fine. However, when I try to watch DVDs copied to the hard drive, it shows the FBI warning, but the menu doesn't appear. I luckily managed to use the arrow buttons to play the movie. It didn't show the video from the movie and the audio was choppy. Also, when I try to use VLC to watch a .VOB file, it switches between a 4:3 aspect ratio and a widescreen one. It doesn't play any audio or video, it just jumps between the two sizes.



    Andrew</strong><hr></blockquote>





    There is such thing as Digital Copy Protection... As well as Analog Copy Protection...



    But if you can't get any DVD to play, um, then solve your first problem first.



    Australian Courts with DMCA like provisions have actually ruled that XBOX MOD chips are legal because they have potential legal uses. Similarly expect such fair use rulings to take over in more countries... Adventually it will become not worth-while to put in place Copy Protection that doesn't allow for every form of fair use...



    And, by the way, even though it sounds fair use and copy protection step on each other's toes, it does not mean that both cannot co-exist. In the future, expect a system that while it does use a proprietary format is thus is only supported in less players, it actually will hold fair use rights...



    Just because you can't think of such a scheme now doesn't mean it doesn't exist...



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