How to burn DVD movie (for back up)

Ok,

I have a couple movies that I want to back up. I am fairly unexperience w/ this so please keep that in mind when you're responding to this.

I read about Mactheripper but have no idea on how to use it or to get the latest version. Also, I read somewhere that this is pretty much to burn ISO DVD?

Any suggestions?

 

You might want to try Handbrake, that will convert it into an AVI/MOV file, that you can keep on your computer and watch.

If you use MacTheRipper you get the .vob files of the dvd, and with them you can use a burning program like Toast to burn it to a dvd, and I think that Toast has a built in dvd-copy function as well.

Or you can try Drive-In, I havn't used it much but i think it does something to that effect.

 

There are also programs with which one can 'shrink' regular commercial double-layer dvd's in order to prepare slightly lower quality backups on 4.3gb dvd-r's. One may choose to leave all dvd contents intact, or make a selection, etc.

On the PC there's a legendary freeware program (?!) called "DVD Shrink" which can do all that; the Mac lacks that particular program, but there are other means to doing the same thing. One program that works fine, for instance is called DVD2One----that's not free, though.

Those work best when you want to backup discs as such; if you wish to backup the content so that you can carry it around with you, etc., I think the best choice is Handbrake, as sulkorp has already written.

 

Yes, I have Handbrake and it's a nice program if you want to keep the file in your laptop. However, I think I'm gonna need to burn it in DVD.

Any idea which program works best? I heard about DVD2one, Toast and Mactheripper. Can someone explain to me which combo is best?

 

Roxio Toast/Popcorn do a decent job. I've never used DVD2one(X), but it's supposedly good too.

For DVD backup I use Windows software. DVD Shrink is free and very simple to use, so if you have Windows, just use that. Other Windows options include: Cinema Craft Encoder (CCE), SlySoft AnyDVD/Elby CloneDVD, DVDFab, and Ashampoo. I'm sure there are many more too. CCE is for advanced users, but will produce the absolute best quality if you need to use compression (DVD9>DVD5). The other Windows software options I mentioned are very easy to use and still produce good quality.

Here are a few sites that will be useful to you:

Doom9

AfterDawn

VideoHelp

 

Thanks Xander.

Go Bucks.

I'm an OSU alumn.

 

if you want a full backup of the dvd I would just use mactheripper.

you can then use VLC player to play that back, just as if you had the dvd in the drive.

 

All MacTheRipper does is remove copy protection, region coding and extract the contents; no compression. You can use DVD Player.app to playback the ripped content as well. DVD Player > File > Open DVD Media. I've had issues with VLC DVD playback. Also, you can mount .ISO (or other) image files in OS X by double-clicking. A virtual drive will appear and it should act just like you had inserted an actual disc. So if you have movies saved as .ISO files you can easily play them without the use of any third-party software.

GO BUCKS!!!

 

If you want a 1:1 copy, aka lossless, definitely use MacTheRipper than burn the VIDEO_TS folder it rips onto a blank DVD+R DL/DVD-R DL.

I'd stay away from shrinking a movie onto a single DVD+R/DVD-R as you're promoting quality reduction. If you're going to do something like that, you might as well use Roxio Toast or Handbrake to just compress the 8GB movie in to a 1GB/2GB movie. Than you could put between 2 to 4 movies onto a DVD+R/DVD-R.