[stoneage]

I used Mac the Ripper to extract a 7.78 gig video to my desktop. I don't see how I can burn it to a DVD that only has 4.7 gig capacity. Do I have to compress it somehow, or is there another way to copy the video from a DVD? Thanks for any help. This is the first time I have tried this.

[jamil5454]

A Dual-Layer DVD could hold it.

[k_munic]

Hi stoneage,

what you have done is just "ripping" the content/getting rid of the copy protection… step two is re.compression; two tools on the market:
PopCorn by Roxio… a commercial product, esp. meant to work in combination with Toast
DVD2One by http://www.dvd2one.com/ - highly recommended tool for 40€, with easy settings but also with some very smart extra functions (e.g. selecting single tracks, recombining multi-part dvds, selecting a "preferred" language etc) and, of course, you choose the final size, so to make a dl dvd fit on a single layered dvd

in many cases, choosing "main feature"/the main movie only, without making-ofs, games, whatever, makes the content smaller… you can do all that with DVD2One…

[msuper69]

Mac The Ripper + Popcorn ..... Priceless!