[X4U] Re:DVD copying

[Nick Scalise]

On Aug 4, 2007, at 10:06 PM, Dan A Currie wrote:

> Dennis R. Cohen wrote:
>
>> There are three separate "protection" considerations with commercial
>> DVDs: Region Codes, CSS, and Macrovision. MacTheRipper deals with  
>> all of
>> them and, once you've ripped to your hard disk, that content is
>> Region-free (aka Region 0), DeCSSed, and had the Macrovision removed.
>> This can now be written to a DVD-R, although you will often need  
>> either
>> a dual-layer burner and DVD+/-R DL blanks or software, such as  
>> Toast 8,
>> to compress the content to fit.
>>
> OK!
> I used MTR to extract the movie - Just the Movie.
>
> I then opened my new Toast 8, made sure that "Fit-to-DVD video  
> compression" was checked and dragged the VIDEO_TS file to the Toast  
> > Video > VIDEO_TS screen and got the following message.
>
> The contents of the VIDEO_TS folder cannot be compressed.
>
> Suggestions,

Let MTR extract the whole disc and then let Toast tell you what will  
fit. You can remove menus, etc. in Toast.

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Nick Scalise
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