Macintosh rip,compress & burn guide

You can do that with MTR, just RTM. Also look into an app called OSEX. It is a little older and buggy, but rips audio only with many options.

 

guy's i'm a complete noob to the mac system but i just purchased a mac mini and i'm trying to figure out what would be the best way to rip dvds and store them. i have a 500gb external that i want to use as a "media server" (lack of better description). i want to be able to stick a dvd in, rip, and save in a good format that isn't going to require mass space. i've read about the mtr program and i'm wondering if that would be the best solution. if not, what? i don't care what kind of format it saves in as long as it's playable in quicken, retains all quality (film only, i don't care about menus and extras), and conserves space. any help would be greatly appreciated

 

Your best options are these three apps together:

1. MTR
2. Dvd2oneX
3. Toast

Read the mac ripping/burning guide at the top of the forum for more info. imovie will not be of any use for this, unless you intend to edit the video and spend a whole ton of time and hard drive space re-authoring your dvd.

 

Hey, I wondered whether BUFFER UNDERRUN could be caused by the disc burner? Although I've been able to rip and burn using MTR and Popcorn, in the last few days I get that error, and I've tried burning the source files from 3 different drives. The files in question are under 4.3G, so no compression is needed, and I've ripped from both MTR and DVDBackup.
I'm also getting the error message with Toast when attempting to burn data.
My DVD burner is a Pioneer 105 connected by Firewire. G4 Dual 866.
Thanks

 

Is anything else going on in your system? Are you using other apps?

Have you tried a slower burn speed?

 

I've tried 2x, with no other apps running, and it still happens. My computer has been a bit sluggish in general, of late, come to think of it. I'm running 10.3.8.

 

I've heard of problems with 10.3.8. Upgrade to 10.3.9 and the rebuild permissions and dump all the crap out of your system that you no longer need.

 

Hey Mediaguru,
Thanks for the suggestion, but still no dice. I upgraded to 10.3.9, and rebuilt permissions. Tried to burn same file (4.1Gb) to a disk with Popcorn, but it failed a few minutes into the burn. Then I tried burning a CD with Toast on the same burner (Pioneer 104, firmware 1.00) and it failed again. Switched burner to Philips CDD5101 in Toast and sucessfully burned a CD (did it twice). So I'm back to thinking there's something wrong with the Pioneer drive. The drive reads fine.

 

Have you tried different media?

 

I've been sucessful with this media (Memorex 8x DVD-R) up until a few days ago, and the CD burning test was done with Maxell CD-R. So maybe not a media problem?

 

Well, for the hell of it try a couple of more brands like Ritek and Taiyo Yuden see what happens.

 

Will do. By the way, I just remembered something which might be significant... 3 days ago I was burning a copy of a short film that I made (1.2 Gb) , when the Buffer Underrun message popped up, but the partial burn had actually mounted on my desktop, and subsequently played for a short while.

 

Well the disc was just reading the data that was there. They burn inside out sequentially. SO I bet it just stopped which would be right at where your underrun occured.

 

here's a quick question for the master of all media, ....time alottd for a bow....

what programs should i use to rip a dvd (movie only) and save it to a avi file or any other formatt. i want to have a one ffile video that doesn't get above 1 gb witthoutthe loss of quality

thanks almighty one,

 

Well for starters, you're not going to take a full 4-7GB dvd and reduce it to 1GB without quality loss.

That being said, you could use dvdxdv to extract to full resolution quicktime. Then use quicktime pro or ffmpegx to convert to some other "compressed" format. MPEG4 would probably be your best combination of quality versus size.

 

Use Handbrake:

http://handbrake.m0k.org/index.php

 

Hmm. Rips directly from the dvd to mpeg4 (even encrypted)

DOWNLOADING NOW!

 

Any of you Mac OS X guys had any luck either mounting, or just being able to copy files to a Playstation 2 Hard drive?

I have tried the Virtual PC route and everything doesn't work. -heh

I want to be able to put my backups on the HD to be run with HD advance 2.0

I know there is another place for PS2 stuff but everyone over there is PC!!!!!

Please help a guy out, thanks!

 

BEFORE I BURN A DVD HOW DO I PREVIEW IT ON DVD PLAYER FROM A VIDEO_ST FILE? IT DOES NOT SEEM LIKE DVD PLAYER SUPPORTS THAT FILE TYPE.

 

NO NEED TO SHOUT! Just load up dvd player and select "open VIDEO_TS folder", find your video_ts then hit play.