Macintosh rip,compress & burn guide

Well last night I finally got 2 working burns using the fujifilm DVD-R so the only thing I can determine is that either the first several were bunk dvd's or (and this is my guess) using my cd lense cleaner did the trick. HEY THANKS EVERYONE FOR THE HELP. OH and GURU I would revise your great TUTORIAL with adding an often overlooked step CLEANING YOUR LENSE!!!!!!

 

OK, so I've seen postings on this thread about desktop.db files popping up when burning a DVD-R in Toast 5, but I don't think I've seen any answers on dealing. I use Backup and Remaster, then pop the video_ts file into Toast, and this is where the fun ensues. When I'm all prepared to burn, I press the record button and when the write speed selection box appears in the foreground, I can see a desktop.db and df file appear in with the other files.

What, if anything, can I do?

 

Oh yeah, and I've been burning free of any issues with Toast 5 for nearly a year and suddenly the db, df problem. I also have Popcorn, which works, unless I use Remaster Pro and attempt anything less than the whole disc.

 

if you're burning for dvd.. you need to use:

data tab-->advanced-->dvd rom (udf)

thats how i burn.. never have any issues

 

Hey all...

Thought it was kind of funny!!! I left a "P" out of "ripper"... I did a google search a minute ago spelling "riper" (mac the riper) incorrectly... to my surprise... the text from my message was used in an AD link... Love the site... Just remember not everyone reading is one of us!!!

Neil

 

Hi All,

Im new here and needed some help re this issue. Ive tried looking through the previous messages but couldnt spot the answer. Well here goes...........

I need toback up one of my dvds but on that dvd is "dmg" file (nothing else) - however its over 7gigs in size so i cant put it onto a single dvd nor do i have a double layer dvd drive. What can i do.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Regards

 

ok here goes...

if i'm not mistaken, a ".DMG" file is a mountable image. which means, that this is probably software. which you you will need to rar down the file. you will need to split them into 3gb chunks.

you would need to use something like this:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20615

hope that helps

 

So it's not a movie, it's data. Yes that would be correct. You could just mount the dmg and backup from there too.

 

ok.. thats right.. once you mount it you may just be able to take out the items and they may be able to fit onto a single dvd without needing to be rar'ed.

thank you for that mediaguru.

 

Thanks for your replies ! I'll check that out! Yep it is software and not a video file!

Regards

 

hi MEDIAGURU,

you mentioned .."...You could just mount the dmg and backup from there too......"

Well ive mounted the dmg onto the desktop but im not have much luck with the "rar" prograame somebody here suggested!

Have i got any other options or must it be the "rar" thing.

thanks again
Regards

 

if you mount the disk image.. you can then drag and drop the files in there onto your desktop. wait til they copy over. if they are too big to fit onto one disc. then you need to use the "rar".

once you have the files on ur desktop hit "apple+I" and check how big the files are.

 

I've been having weird occurences with my ripping/burning experience, so thought I'd ask to see what people thought.

i had a dual 1.8 desktop g5 running panther, was ripping using mac the ripper and then burning/compressing with popcorn. worked well for a few months then all of a sudden started going haywire during the compressing. popcorn would all of a sudden start continually increasing the estimated time for compression until it froze in the middle. from that point on my mac started crashing frequently and i had work done on it numerous times until finally apple replaced the unit. (they replaced the processors twice and i went back to trying to burn the same way i had been, only to have the same thing happen).

i now got my new unit, a dual 2.0 g5 with tiger. i've been burning using fastdvdcopy for a few weeks now with no problems, until last night the same thing started happening. the program started increasing the estimated burn time (from 7 minutes up to an hour) until finally i quit the app. i am afraid if i continue to try to burn it is going to mess my mac up again. anyone have this experience or know what might be going on? any info would be great....

 

Yea hey everything works out fine on every step except when I try to use Dvd2oneX. I added the files that I used from DVDbackup. And I only have the option to do one at a time ans press start. I'm just fully confused. I tried fallowoing your steps but you can't select the whole DVD to compress. And even when I did one that was kind of large it did not down size it that much. I was wonderin if someone could help me out with that because I'm totally lost.

Thanks a lot

 

@ sgustin:

you can use "disk copy" option in dvd2OneX.
and that will to the entire disk..
i've compressed down from 7gbs to single dvd and its kept pretty good quality on it.


as far as dvdbackup goes.. i'm not familiar with it. what i use is MTR. i'm not sure what OS you are on? MTR is a free app. and you have the option of doing main feature only. then you can use "disk copy" on dvd2OneX. if you use popcorn... there's issues of "main feature only" from MTR, and popcorn will have you error message. so i stick it through dvd2OneX and test with DVD Player before burning.

worse case scenario, if you have a DL burner. you can do it that way.. i know popcorn gives you the option on doing just the movie..

now, toast 7.. does include popcorn integrated into it.

hope that gives you some ideas.

@ laminated

i really dont have any idea on this one. you may wanna check with our buddies at:

http://www.ripdifferent.com/phpbb2/index.php

 

Thanks to all who replied!

I gave up on the "raring" thing and went out and bought a Lacie Dual Layer DVD Writer - all my probs would be solved i thought - well not exactly.

I can burn cds/normal dvds ok and they play in any other mac!

BUT when it comes to the dual layer ones - i put in a dvd to copy and it burns ok then when i put the new copied disc into another dvd drive (like on my powerbook or my mates imac g5) the disc is thrown back out (after making a few odd noises)! Any ideas!

I've tried this with three diff brands - TDK, Verbatim and bulkpaq.

However if i put the new copied dvd in my new external dvd drive (the one i used to burn the disc it reads it fine!)

PS- im using toast titanium 6 to burn them.

Any suggestions?
Regards

 

I used my powerbook a good 4 months, no problem with the mac the ripper and dvd2one, toast system for ripping shrinking burning. Ând then the dvd burner died.
Mac replaced it. Put in a matshita dvd-r uj-825. I dont know what the original was. This this new drive is posing all kinds of problems. spend many hours trying to figure out but seems like a problem in firmware dealing with different zones. Mac the ripper will rip an "all zone" dvd but the files come up unviewable. Such problem discs seem to come from the USA, even though they are "all zone" and not Zone 1.
I think this drive is heavily protected, blocking even the standard rippper - dvd2one by pass.
Any one else agree, have same problem?

 

do they give a file type? on those unviewable ones?

are these discs back-ups or originals?

 

Right, ive ripped whole disk usin MTR, compressed using movie only, to a size that will fit on disk, and burnt using UDF setting in toast 6 (as toast 7 wudnt let me burn ANYTHING) and it burns without fail. BUT when played back on a PS2 or dvd player, or the Mac, it crashes or starts jumping on the last 2 chapters. and yet the same video_ts folder plays fine if played from the HDD without craching the last 2 chapters. any ideas? ive re-ripped it again just to be sure, 3 times, and re compressed them as well, but stil no luck on the last 2 chapters. am copying 28 days later by the way.

help appreciated !

kiz

 

What about dvd backup 1.3 then to toast or would i have extract the dvd files with mac the ripper or would the backup1.3 not give me the right type of files?