Macintosh rip,compress & burn guide

ok nevermind....just answered my own question...i just got a 4th different brand of dvd-r and this one works...if anyone is having the same problem try maxell dvd-r's.....gonna go buy dvd2one now....damn the quality is excellent.....

 

ok guys another problem i'm running into...lol. I keep switching media thinking it's the disks...but i've tried em all out there now...lol. Everything burns and plays fine but when the disk is verified a couple seconds into the verification it come up with an error that it can't read a certain sector....then ejects the disk.....when i play it in a dvd player when it gets 4 or 5 mins into the main feature....it freezes...i have to fast foward for a second then it's fine for the rest of the movie....any ideas??? Ive tried burning it at best and 4x speed cause that's all i can do..tried dvd from video ts and dvd udf....it all does the same....i am running osx10.4.1...maybe there's an issue with that? also does anyone know of a avi2dvd converter for mac?? i've found a bunch for pc....i found a plugin for quicktime so i can watch em now...just wanna burn em....get back to me with some insight here id' appreciate it...thanks

 

I am using Mac the Ripper and Popcorn. I am experiencing the same freezes on what would otherwise be a clean copy. Any advice?

 

OK I used Mac The Ripper to rip Now how do I burn the DVD

 

I just used Fast DVD Copy But I can not get the file to play here is the error QuickTime couldn’t parse it: How can I get the file to play

 

I have MTR 2.6.6 and everything has been working perfectly until today. I recently purchased Region 2 DVD's and I have tried every possible combination in MTR; RCE Off to New Region All, RCE 2 to New Region 1 and RCE Off to New Region 1. All of my DVD players read something to the effect of "incorrect region... cannot play" However, I can play the DVD's processed through MTR perfectly on my MAC without receiving a Region warning. I'm assuming they are making DVD's and players much smarter, or am I missing something? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

I still can not get any of my files to play with Fast Copy HELP!!!!!!!

 

Great tutrioal i had no idea how to go about this untill i read your thread

I've managed to back up most of my collection except 2 which is odd they rip fine with mac the ripper then in dvd2one it looks as if its working but rushes to 100% really qucikly and leaves me with about 5 files instead of 20 or whatever is should be any ideas?

 

first of all: thanks mediaguru! heres my problem, hopefully you can help. when ripping with mtr (2.66) im getting the message: "Bad sectors! This disc has bad sectors. allthough the rip is complete, the rip may not playback." another error message was : deliberate bad sectors. any idea how to solve this?

 

ive had the same problem recently....only on new releases tho......just watch the movie on your comp b4 your burn it......i havn't run into one that hasn't played perfect yet....i think it might just be a glitch.....not positive tho.....has anyone run into error messages verifying a disk after its' burned? I burn with toast and it's always comming up with unreadable sectors.....those discs freeze at some point in the movie.....i have to ff for a sec and it plays fine from there....

 

Another newbie problem. MacTheRipper worked fine and i have Video_TS file. In it is .VOB file which ONLY seems to play on my VLC player. I cannot get it to play on DVD player or iDVD to read it.

My version of Toast is 5.2, so i tried buring the DVD using Other/DVD but it didn't play.
Not ready to pay to upgrade Toast for the 3rd time, i then used DVD Imager to make an image and copied using Disk Utility. (I have a G4 running OS-Tiger-10.4)

Neither created a DVD that would play on any of my players. I feel like i'm missing something. Any advice would be appreciated. thank you.

 

tiger is having some issues on all this dvd backup.
MTR works fine for me.. at this point i'm just waiting to see if there's any other glitch fixes..
done a few coasters...
may spend the extra money and get some RW's. see if that plays on dvd player, if so.. just then make copy to copy using toast.
after MTR.. goes thru dvd2onex for compression. then burned with toast or popcorn. since its been compressed, popcorn will just burn. but with some movies it works. some it doesnt.

i was wondering on that option of ripping with MTR. the ARccos feature.. does it make a difference if i use it or not. i'm stumped on that one.

@ ian2403:
just like mediaguru says.. it does pay for itself.. very wonderful program.

@mettur
i know there is Handbrake
this converts to mpg4.. i'm not sure exactly how it works.

http://handbrake.m0k.org/

not sure how the quality is on this one.

@ batman22
same thing.. just buy the full version.. i heard how good it was and just bought it straight up.

again... i'm hating tiger right now for all this mess.. but i'm looking for ways around it. and if anybody has any fixes.. suggestions.. ideas.. i'll be more than happy to test them out.. on some R/Ws of course.



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Hey...

I use Mac the Riper and Popcorn for normal DVDs... If I need to "backup" of one of my purchased DVD's it works great... There are a lot of alternatives one can find to solve format problems... Most are PC only crap!!!

 

About deliberate bad sectors. You may need to rip in arcoos mode with MTR. Then using dvd2onex, under selections-cell/chapter/layer: Deselect the items that have zero data.

Test with dvdplayer before you burn!

 

Mediaguru (or anyone else with know how), you seem to be kindly helping some newbies on here, I wondered if you might kindly offer me your assistance. I've got a g4 with superdrive, and am trying to burn some downloaded movies using toast. these are mainly avi files. I basically keep being told the files are too big (usually by very little) for the disc. Fair enough. Without really knowing whether it would do anything I tried converting them using divx doctor which helped me play them in Quicktime, but made no diifference to my ability to burn.
Is there anything i can do to compress these files for burning? (i realise they have alreadyt been coded) Can I convert them to something else which will help. I tried burning them under the DATA tab of Toast instead of VIDEO, and they did burn - but these discs weren't recognised by DVD players, whereas other (smaller) movies I'd successfully burned under the VIDEO tab did. Does this make sense to you? all help greatly appreciated.

 

thanks for writing this, it saves us from answearing everyones repeative questions.

 

i love just quoting or pasting the link in here...
i try... i guess some ppl noticed i try... didnt know i made that much of a difference.. but i figured i would try since i learned everything i know from this site about backing up my dvds.

its my way of saying thank you.

edit:

i know the guide does state that you cant burn with "disk utility" for a udf. but you can do it in dvdimager and burn that way.
is there anyway to have that added?

 

I recently purchased DVD Remaster, which I installed onto my new iMac G5, and I can't burn
any of the files it creates onto DVD. I have tried putting them through Disk Imager but it
makes no difference.