Copying DVDs (movies). Straigh duplication. Easy?
My sister owns and old copy of Bambi on VHS and she doesnt want to buy a new copy. So she wants to know if she borrows the DVD from the video shop, how easy is it to copy is onto the computer, and then burn it?
I know nothing about DVDs, but surely simply copying a movie like that cant be too hard? Would you simply copy the entire disc's files to your computer and then later burn them onto a blank DVD? Is that it?
i know this isn't legal, according to copyright laws, but she has little money and doesnt see why she should have to buy the same film twice!
If you can help, it'd be much appreciated.
I know nothing about DVDs, but surely simply copying a movie like that cant be too hard? Would you simply copy the entire disc's files to your computer and then later burn them onto a blank DVD? Is that it?
i know this isn't legal, according to copyright laws, but she has little money and doesnt see why she should have to buy the same film twice!
If you can help, it'd be much appreciated.
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so you can't do it straight with disk utility. there are some third party programs that manage to do what you want, but i don't remember the names of any right now.
A movie like Bambi is probably single layer (around 4 gigabytes), so you'd just have to burn it after you rip it. I use Toast to burn, and I'm not sure if you can burn with any Apple standard software, because I believe it has to be set up as a video DVD. I'm pretty sure it doesn't work with the burner in the Finder, but I haven't tried it.
Most new releases are on dual layer disks (closer to 8 gigabytes), in which case you'd either need to burn it to a dual layer DVD or compress it with something like DVD2one or Roxio Popcorn before burning.
Hi, I have this crusty cassette of my fav band and I don't want to buy it again but I want it on SuperCD.
Please...
Go find a haXors web forum (where they will tell you Macs suck).
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Originally posted by ZoranS
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Hi, I have this crusty cassette of my fav band and I don't want to buy it again but I want it on SuperCD.
Please...
Go find a haXors web forum (where they will tell you Macs suck).
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Thank you
Originally posted by ZoranS
/dons flame suit
Hi, I have this crusty cassette of my fav band and I don't want to buy it again but I want it on SuperCD.
Please...
Go find a haXors web forum (where they will tell you Macs suck).
/decides not to come back to this topic to see scathing replies I may have earned
Gosh man, I feel your pain. Now release your anger and let it flow within you!
I mean, uh, if I already bought M. Jackson's Thriller on Vinyl, why the hell should I have to pay again for it on CD? And in a case like Bambi, what are the chances that the original artists who created the movie are still getting royalties off DVD sales? Most of them are probably dead!
Here's another one for you: I bought Pink Floyd's The Wall on CD when it was first released. Now there are like 20 newer releases of The Wall, all newly remastered in varying degrees of high-bit goodness. So am I supposed to cough up dough for a CD of The Wall that's finally mastered the way it should have been back in the 80s? Or should I deny that fat pig David Gilmour any more cash and get the music I've already paid for by other means?
Anyways it's good to keep artists poor; less money for drugs and more time for creating!
Anyway... my problems continue.
Ive now managaed to extract the files, compress them all done to the right size and ive then tested these files in 'DVD Player'. My logic being that if they play there they'll play in a DVD player... yes?
So i drag my folder named 'VIDEO_TS' into DVD Player and it plays... just like a normal DVD
but i read somewhere that when you burning them to disk, you burn another folder named 'AUDIO_TS'on there too.
OK. So i burnt to a blank DVD the folders 'AUDIO_TS' and 'VIDEO_TS' and it wouldn't play!
So ive now inserted the original DVD, and ive noticed that it only has a 'VIDEO_TS' file. So should i only burn my 'VIDEO_TS' file to disk?
Also, is there a particular something i should be naming the disk?
Disneys dvd's are a bitch to copy.
Firstly. I will go on record as saying that this topic should ahve been locked long ago as it really does deal with pirating.
But anyways, if the mods are slow, I have time to offer this one tip.
I tried ripping Aladdin, Lilo & Stitch and others. I too already own them, but having kids, I wanted shitty plain dvd copies that my kids can wreck and I won't care.
Load the dvd into dvd player on your mac.... then, seriously, click on every possible menu. Go into all the extras, the scene selections, the audio commentaries what have you... and click on them. Once you have clicked every possible window...
Then try running Mac The Ripper on it. You will find that it copies and works fine.
I think you are missing a step in toast for burning... but as I said... I was only offering one tip. And I only offered it because Eisner has to go
Now I know that most of you will think this is bullshit... but try it.
This is the only way that my mates have been able to rip these dvd's
And as far as artists are concerned... I work as an animator... company name withheld... and I think you should really go out and buy the dvd's.
buy dvd2onex (around $60, depending on the exchange rate at time of purchase...there are free alternatives, but I have not gotten them to reliably work...and their quality is often pretty shabby too...also, this works with absolutely every dvd I have tried...I know there are issues with some newer dvds out there...but I haven't had any issues yet)
rip the dvd with mac the ripper
process it with dvd2onex, making sure to check the box saying "Create Image" (then name the image the same thing as the original dvd)
open disk utility, make sure the disk image shows up (if not, mount the image, then "eject" it).
Click "Burn" in Disk utility, pop in a blank dvd-r.
Viola. Beautiful DVDs that are high-fidelity copies. (They are compressed more than the original DVDs, so some of the quality is lost...just as it is when you rip a CD or copy a cd or song from it to tape).
NB Everyone in the world wants you to think this is illegal, and that your grandchildren will be doing hard labor for your transgressions long after you are dead. But copyright law and intellectual property law are far from clear on this issue. Pirating in the strict legal sense only applies to making a profit from your copies. (The RIAA and the MPAA are doing everything in their power to change this, both in the minds of citizens and the eyes of the law--and they are rapidly succeeding at both...but they haven't won yet.) According to the DMCA, circumventing the copy-protection on DVDs is illegal, but the constitutionality of the DMCA has not yet been fully tested.
Personally, I think we do democracy and freedom a disservice when we all cower in front of the all mighty corporations and their effing "intellectual property." Especially frikkin Disney, which pretends to "own" Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, the Little Mermaid, etc...Sheesh, in this legal and social environment, Shakespeare never would have written a g*dd*mn word! (Sorry about the rant, but the gist of it is: I hope your sister and whatever little ones pitter-patter around her, enjoy watching Bambi. And please do so guilt free.)
You may want to look at DVDimager.
Set your burning preferences to DVD/CD Master and your set.
REMEMBER: duplication of copy protected material is in violation of applicable laws etc. etc...
Thanks for your suggestions people. I ended up using the following apps:
MacTheRipper
DVD2One
Toast 6.0 Titanium
it took several attempts before i got it right. I had set it up in MacTheRipper so that it removed the regional code, but i later worked out that my DVD player (PS2) doesnt like region-free DVDs.
I was also using the wrong burn option in Toast at one point. I was burning it as a Mac Data Disc rather than using the 'DVD-ROM (UDF)' option.
I have since noticed there is also the 'Video' tab which has a 'DVD-Video' option. One day i might try that out too.
The only downside to my copied DVD is that i dont seem to be able to skip from one chapter to the next (i also removed the bonus material and menu screen, but that was intentional)
That's all
Originally posted by BRussell
Nice post DCQ. I didn't realize that DVD2one could let you burn like that without toast. But what about this situation where (I'm guessing) Bambi is a single-layer DVD? Is there a way to burn, without having to get Toast or DVD2One, after you rip?
I'm not sure about all the ins and outs. I frankly don't know why it works, what it's doing, or even what a "vob," "ifo," or "bup" is (I know that's not terribly geeky of me), but it does what I want it to, and that's all I care about.
I've tried using Toast once (on a friend's comp), and honestly I feel using disk utility is easier. It's definitely reliable (and free, which was important to me). I've never had a problem with a disk I've burned. Of course, I'm keeping the region coding the same as the original. And I'm even leaving the UOPs (User Operation Prohibition...I figured out what those are
I just know it works. And I'm glad.
Glad things seem to be working out spiers69. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the chapter skipping problem, but be sure to name your DVDs in the standard way (all caps, no spaces (use underscores instead), no nonstandard characters). I've actaully seen one commercial DVD with lowercase letters, but I've heard this can cause problems. Other than that, if you continue to have problems with feature-only disks, you might try using disk utility. I did this with my "Incredibles" DVD (my only feature-only copy which I backed up so my daughter wouldn't scratch the original), and it skips chapters without a hitch. Other than that, the problem may reside with that particular movie (DVD2onex apparently has problems with specific individual disks and the programmers have to work on those and patch it) or with the PS2. Check online message boards.
The odd thing about the skipping is this:
before i successfully burnt the copy that wont change chapters, i tried to burn exactly the same movie, but i got bored waiting for it to burn and started surfing the net and listening to music. In the end, (cause my computer is lacking RAM?) it had a burn error and only burnt half the film (to the 15th chapter).
So i quit toast and set it all up agian, so that i was exactly the same and re-burnt it. With success. (this is my good copy - the one that i cant skip chapters on!)
I later checked my copy with the burn error and found that i could skip chapters on it.
Im sure they're the same too!