SO CHECK THIS OUT...DVD RIPPING IN VIRTUAL PC.....THE EASY WAY. (AT LEAST FOR ME )

Discussion in 'Video problems with Mac' started by jinn366, May 11, 2003.

  1. jinn366

    jinn366 Guest

    So I have spent the last wekk trying to find a way to burn DVD's on my Imac G3 and here is what I have found . Hope this helps other folks out .
    I used DVDshrink (PC app. Stay with me. I'm going somewhere with this.) to compress DVD9's to fit on a DVD5 with working menus and very minimal image quality degradation . I was able to do this by using my girlfriends PC laptop with my external hdd and ripping the files to the external . The finished files are the files found in a VIDEO_TS folder and it hit me .
    Why not rip the files and then create a folder with the name of the DVD I ripped , put the files (vobs,ifo,bups) into a new folder that I named Video_TS and place that in the folder with the movie name ? Then I figured let me add a folder named AUDIO_TS into the movie folder so that you have both the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders the way a real DVD would . I then dragged the movie folder containing the 2 subfolders into Toast 5 and burned in Other-DVD . 90 minutes later I had a working and very good looking (picture quality ) copy of The Matrix . Have since burned backups fo Gladiator , Blade 2 and Braveheart and they work excellently .
    So here's what I'm thinking : Download DVdshrink and install on Virtual PC (for those that have it ) and then transfer the shared folder to your MAC and burn in Toast . Easy as pie .No decoding or re-encoding , no DVDSP or FCP or any of that other stuff .
    Hope this offers a new option and if someone has already thought of it , sorry . This is my firstthread in this forum so be gentle folks , I'm a Newb . Peace all and Happy Ripping .
     
    jinn366, May 11, 2003
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  2. kbuegel

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    Nero buring rom software will create the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders for you. Just use the DVD-Video template. Make sure you put all your video files into the VIDEO_TS folder (not other folders or root directory). Also, all filenames must be capitalized.
     
    kbuegel, Jun 2, 2003
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  3. Virri

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    How about this small and easy little combo??? DVDbackup and DVD2oneX???? Sounds much better and easier to me. ;)
     
    Virri, Jun 9, 2003
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  4. highe5

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    Yeah, but don't forget, DVDshrink let's you choose any combination of features from the orig to include in your copy - something that DVD2oneX doesn't let you do... (It only has 2 options - movie only or everything, german subtitles n all!)

    Roll on an update to DVD2oneX that includes this feature....
     
    highe5, Jul 4, 2003
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  5. Virri

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    Thats not true. If you choose movie only you can still add what ever subtitle you want or any language you want. This is specially easy with the new version of DVD2OneX with little check boxes.
     
    Virri, Jul 10, 2003
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  6. highe5

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    Yeah, I've since found out that I must have an old version without the checkboxes - thanks for putting me right on that one !!!
     
    highe5, Jul 10, 2003
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