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[bluekatt]

no not tiger who is bursting out of the seams of a hoplessly outclassed poor G3 ibook that can hardly cope
but dvd's
i have a collection of extremley expensive imported region 1 dvd's
( mostly anime the 5 mobile suit gundam zeta dvd's set me back 179 )
some are not availble any more and quite frankly i want to rip these to avi format so i can watch them on one of my computers ( i play most of my dvd's on a monitor anyway )
and not touch the real thing unless i really have to

so err how do i go about that ?

( it probably involves imovie or something )

 

[Ric]

Hi there,

there are quite a lot of 'bits' that you can use...

Primarily, MacTheRipper is what you are after...

Let us know if you need any pointers in the right direction...

regards

Ric

 

[bluekatt]

imanaged to rip a one footin the grave dvd i legally own
but no wi am stuck with enormous .VOB files
which is not really the idea

what do i need and can i do to shrink these down to avi files ?

 

[PowerBook]

You can do this using QuickTime Pro (you need to get a license) ! Then you can save them as H264, which will make them nice and small !

Or you can get ffmpegX which you can use to compress them.

Which ever way you do it, it takes a while !

pb

 

[bluekatt]

i figured it would be time consuming but thanks for the link

 

[Ric]

Hi there,

if you use QuickTime Pro then you can 'create' yourself an Automator workflow and leave it compressing the MTR files overnight...so at least then it doesn't seem to take as long !

regards

Ric

 

[bluekatt]

unfortunaly i do have a pro key but its for qt 6 not 7
and the conversion just finished


only took 6 hours

 

[Ric]

Hi there,

I am just using MTR to extract a DVD at the minute, then I'll convert using QT 7, just to see how 'quick' (I think slow would be a better word) it is...

regards

Ric

 

[bluekatt]

im doing it ona fp imac 800 mhz
with tiger
so your mileage may vary

 

[Ric]

Hi there,

DVD ripped using MTR, now running it through HandBrake not sure if I mentioned this one before..but it it is another good way !

So, MTR first then HandBrake...HandBrake also has a 'queue' system so you can leave it running overnight !

HandBrake works well...especially if you leave your Mac alone (it likes at much processor power as possible !)

regards

Ric

 

[bluekatt]

i can give it a whole 1000 mhz for its own i have a dual 1 ghz G4 MDD these days

 

[Kyomii]

I think Mac The Ripper and Popcorn 2 is quicker. I think Toast 7 will also do the job, although Popcorn is cheaper.

 

[bluekatt]

i must get my hands on popcorn
i havent tried mac the ripper yet on this MDD
with the franken mac it could not see my dvd drive

ffmpegx encodes the files plenty fast but doenst have sound