Ripping DVDs and Burning DVDs

dale mox · December 17, 2002 5:31AM

I was wondering if I could rip DVDs on my iBook and if I could somehow rip only part of it, you know the beginning of Lost in Space, its so cool but the rest is so lame.

I also heard you can somehow burn DVDs on a CD but I wanted to know what format it has to be in, what software can change the format and what software can burn the movie on the Cd so I can watch it on my DVD player.

Quite long, thanks for the help

Dale Mox

mac man 020581 · December 17, 2002 6:26AM

As in your other post, I think this time ripping and re-burning DVDS is illegal.

dale mox · December 17, 2002 6:59AM

I want to go on vacation and see a few DVDs without having to bring the actual DVD which could break.

Thanks,

Dale Mox

[ 12-17-2002: Message edited by: Dale Mox ]

stevegongrui · December 17, 2002 7:33AM

[quote]Originally posted by Mac Man 020581:

As in your other post, I think this time ripping and re-burning DVDS is illegal.

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Still using OS X 10.1.5.

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That's why you're still using 10.1.5

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rhoq · December 17, 2002 2:19PM

You could rip the DVD to your HD (using ffMPEGx) and then convert the video to MPEG and burn it to a CD-R to make a VCD...Ripping the audio & video from the DVD to your HD doesn't take that long, but converting it to MPEG to view it as a VCD takes a very long time (I believe 10 minutes for every 1 MB of audio & video).

You can also use VLC to view the files ripped from the DVD with ffMPEGx, so in theory you could burn those files to a CD and use VLC to play them back...

defiant · December 17, 2002 3:43PM

you can make a backup of your DVD by copying it over to your harddrive. just drag & drop.

then, open DVD player, (in Mac OS X 10.2) click onto "File" and then onto "Open VIDEO_TS", then select that folder from the DVD you just made a backup from.

this is especially useful for people who make DVD's for a living. this way, they won't have to burn a DVD each time they want to preview it.

mods, I think this is not about pirating, it is more about safe holidays.

klinux · December 17, 2002 8:38PM

[quote]Originally posted by Mac Man 020581:

As in your other post, I think this time ripping and re-burning DVDS is illegal.

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I don't know about his other other post(s), but once I bought a DVD, I can rip it, burn it, as much as I want for my own use!

In any case, I tried to copy a DVD to my HD once on my iBook. Took more than an hour. Same thing on PC using smartripper took <5 minutes.

brussell · December 17, 2002 8:41PM

[quote]Originally posted by Defiant:

you can make a backup of your DVD by copying it over to your harddrive. just drag & drop.

then, open DVD player, (in Mac OS X 10.2) click onto "File" and then onto "Open VIDEO_TS", then select that folder from the DVD you just made a backup from.<hr></blockquote>That won't work on a commercial DVD because of copy protection. You need something like DVD Backup.

defiant · December 18, 2002 2:43AM

it worked for me, mr. russell !

stupider...likeafox · December 18, 2002 5:00AM

[quote]Originally posted by BRussell:

That won't work on a commercial DVD because of copy protection. You need something like DVD Backup.<hr></blockquote>

I believe the DVD Backup is needed to break the CSS encryption if you want to transcode into another format like (S)VCD.

If you just want to watch it in the Apple DVD player then you can leave it encrypted as the program can (and does) descramble it on the fly, the same as it would from a physical DVD.

dale mox · December 19, 2002 1:22PM

Ok so I need ffMPEGx to rip the DVD, and I suppose Toast to burn the mpeg2 as a VCD.

First is that correct and second what do I use to convert the file?

How good is DVD backup?

Thanks by the way

Dale Mox

mrmister · December 19, 2002 5:39PM

I just wanted to second that I think this is an excellent subject that I am very interested in--I would love to be able to take DVDs with me w/o worrying about the physical disk.

defiant · December 20, 2002 12:55AM

[quote]Originally posted by Defiant:

you can make a backup of your DVD by copying it over to your harddrive. just drag & drop.

then, open DVD player, (in Mac OS X 10.2) click onto "File" and then onto "Open VIDEO_TS", then select that folder from the DVD you just made a backup from.

this is especially useful for people who make DVD's for a living. this way, they won't have to burn a DVD each time they want to preview it.

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myahmac · December 20, 2002 2:58AM

use vcd builder and toast to make the vcds. i acutyl made a cd version of a dvd because i was going to bewithout my comp. for while, the movie wa on three cd's but hey, it was about 3 and a haf hours long. and no it was not lord of the rings.

new · December 20, 2002 4:42AM

anyone got the adresse of that page with all the mac DVD resources?

new · December 20, 2002 4:44AM

ahh, <a href="http://www.wormintheapple.gr/macdvd/index.html"; target="_blank">here it is...</a>

chych · December 20, 2002 7:14AM

Hm, I thought 10.1 let you watch DVDs regardless of protection on the hard drive but 10.2 doesn't, no?

wishiwasblack · December 22, 2002 9:04PM

Let's say i burned a DVD over the summer and deleted the movie from my computer. Now i want to make a copy of it to give to my friends, does the OS and iDVD allow me to copy DVD's that i made using iMovie and iDVD? If so how would i do it?

paul · December 23, 2002 1:16AM

[quote]Originally posted by WishIwasBlack:

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as an extension of this question...

what about individual movies from a DVD? like lets say i have 4 videos on a DVD and i want to "rip" one of them so i can send it to a friend over the internet...

possible

also: what about VCDs... would they be any different?

[ 12-23-2002: Message edited by: Paul ]

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