[MacDV] DVD copy info

[Mark M. Florida]

DVD2oneX:

http://www.dvd2one.com/trial.php

1. It's easy (REALLY EASY)

2. It's fast (REALLY FAST - faster than real-time on my lowly G4/867)

3. The quality is superb. (looks as good as the original, and sometimes 
even plays better since the bitrate is lower)

4. It's not too cheap at $50, but if you value your DVD collection like 
I value mine, then it's worth it -- if the kiddies scratch up a copy, 
you can make a new one.

You'll need to burn the resulting "TS" folders created by DVD2one onto 
a disc in UDF format.  I know Toast Titanium can do this, but not sure 
about the "Lite" version.  Toast Ti *cannot*, however, re-compress the 
original "TS" folders extracted with DVDBackup -- that's what DVD2one 
is for (taking a DVD larger than a DVD-R and squeezing it to fit on a 
4.7 GB DVD-R disc).

- Mark

On Mar 12, 2004, at 12:19 AM, Dennis Fazio wrote:

> I know this has probably been covered many times here, but I'm new to 
> this list and have been getting myself confused reading stuff on the 
> web.
>
> I would like to make a copy of my DVD movie. I have been able to 
> extract the content to my disk via DVDBackup. The next step is how to 
> get it on to a new blank DVD playable on my PowerBook or a consumer 
> DVD player.
>
> I believe I can do this with Toast Titanium, and I don't have a 
> problem with making a  purchase if necessary (though I dislike Roxio's 
> lack of decent upgrade consideration). I do have Roxio Toast Lite, but 
> that only does CDs.
>
> Anyway, I'm wondering if there are also easy alternatives available to 
> me. I have:
> PowerBook G4 1.25GHz, DVD-R
> iDVD 4.0.1
> iMovie 4
> Charismac Discribe 5.0.36
> DVDBacup 3.1
> ffmpegX
>
> I'm not averse to using decent shareware or freeware. I consider 
> myself a power user, but do like the nice simple GUI applications. 
> Please let me know what my best options are. Thanks.
> -- 
> Dennis Fazio