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post #1 of 11
9/30/07 at 1:22pm
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Can you do this? i tryed this on my old emac but never worked. i would put a dvd in and click copy, then take dvd out when it was finished but it would never play. How do you save stuff that that to your hard drive?

ALSO, how do you convert movies for ipod use? Thanks guys
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post #2 of 11
9/30/07 at 4:18pm
I think the answers to all your questions begins --> here.
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post #3 of 11
9/30/07 at 4:57pm
To rip the movies so you can play them on your ipod, get HandBrake.

That will also let you rip the movies to your hard drive as MP4s, AVIs, and a couple of other formats. However, for a direct rip to something like an ISO, I'm not too sure what you would use. Do you mind my asking why you want to copy the DVD to your hard drive anyway? If you are doing it for power conservation reasons when watching them on trips then you should just rip them into say... 1.4-2.1 GB h264 MP4s using Handbrake. They will play back in Quicktime just fine, and you can tell it to leave in the chapter markers.
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post #4 of 11
9/30/07 at 8:24pm
Handbrake is a great program that will do pretty much all you want. It even has presets to make backup copies of legally purchased DVDs to your computer and iPod.

keep in mind thought that the forum rules as well as laws of some countries limits the amount that can be discuss on this topic.
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post #5 of 11
10/1/07 at 1:17am
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Originally Posted by TheStu View Post
To rip the movies so you can play them on your ipod, get HandBrake.

That will also let you rip the movies to your hard drive as MP4s, AVIs, and a couple of other formats. However, for a direct rip to something like an ISO, I'm not too sure what you would use. Do you mind my asking why you want to copy the DVD to your hard drive anyway? If you are doing it for power conservation reasons when watching them on trips then you should just rip them into say... 1.4-2.1 GB h264 MP4s using Handbrake. They will play back in Quicktime just fine, and you can tell it to leave in the chapter markers.

i want to do it so i can watch dvds in-between classes. i have 2 hour breaks between each one..BORING, i will never do that again haha rookie mistake.

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keep in mind thought that the forum rules as well as laws of some countries limits the amount that can be discuss on this topic.

yea i know, but its kind of stupid that it is illegal to make copies for your own use, after you spent 20 bucks on already. just my .02, but i do respect the rules of the forum.
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post #6 of 11
10/1/07 at 1:39am
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Originally Posted by H0SS302 View Post
yea i know, but its kind of stupid that it is illegal to make copies for your own use, after you spent 20 bucks on already. just my .02, but i do respect the rules of the forum.

Hehe I agree and it sucks that corperate America has been dictating how users can use thier personal legally purchased media. And the sad thing is they want to restrict it even more.
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post #7 of 11
10/1/07 at 9:49am
This is a topic most people would NOT want to get me started on as I will rant for hours on how stupid and f'd up our patent and copyright system is in many cases.

However in the interest of being quick and concise..

Handbrake- Great for recompressing movies. Can now do MKV, or at least some functions of it, which is IMO the best container format out there at the moment for multiple reasons. Once they get full support in I will be very happy.

MacTheRipper- Great for when you want to keep it is a Mpeg-2 video, and can get a few oddballs that HandBrake has trouble with. Sometimes can get used for the extraction process if Handbrake chokes, and then use Handbrake to recompress it.

Those are my choices on a mac, and really those are close to my choices period.

Seablade

Who has a nice 1.3 TB Linux server of his own DVDs (Noone elses) full of his movies. Its nice to watch them over the network from any computer, including my laptop.
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post #8 of 11
10/1/07 at 2:31pm
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Thanks for the program references guys. did my first rip last night before i went to sleep, one thing tho...Am i doing it wrong or does it really take forever to do the whole process on handbrake? it took like 3 hours to complete
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post #9 of 11
10/1/07 at 3:24pm
If you are recompressing, yes it will take a while. Video Compression is not a light task and is very resource intensive for long periods of time. How long depends on your specs, in your case 3 hours probably isn't to far off depending on the length of the movie, which, especially if re-encoding it into x.264 might be close to real time performance, not bad all in all.

Seablade
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post #10 of 11
10/1/07 at 4:12pm
When I rip episodes of Stargate SG1 from my DVDs to my hard drive (easier than carrying all the DVDs with me) it takes about 1.5 hours per episode, that is on 2 pass encoding h264, target size 350MB. So it is roughly real time per pass on my 1.83GHz Core Duo. I wonder how much faster it would be on a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, anyone have one of those, care to do a test?
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post #11 of 11
10/1/07 at 5:13pm
Heh actually I do have one of those, but can't do a test right now, sorry

Seablade
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