i am looking for some software that i can use to copy a dvd move on my computer and then convert to a vcd can some 1 help me ..
thanks michael..

[videoalex]

well, michael, I'm pretty sure it can't be done.

Apple in order to comply with copyright regulations on the DVD group agreed to make it impossile to copy the video from a DVD under any circumstance. Why? becasue people in south africa might not buy DVDs and may start a pirating ring. Try taking a creen shot of a DVD playing on your mac, it's not possible. (you get a live stream of the DVD inside the pictureviewer.)

Now, Since you really want to do this, there is software to create VCDs on the mac with a video file. it's name escapes me at the moment, but it's decently expensive. VCD files are MPEG-1 streams, and Quicktime 5 will eventually have the ability to make these with Quicktime Pro, but Apple hasn't included that in the preview version. So, you need to find some software that will take a captured file and convert it to MPEG-1. you find that, I'm keeping my hands clean here.

Now, you CAN import DVD video through an analog video port into your mac. if you have a video in card, a fire wire port and one of the newer firewire cameras that accept video in, or a USB port and XLR8's invterview. Plug these into your mac, anc capture the video over the analog ports from a console DVD player. save the file as uncompressed, and then then run your VCD conversion software to get the file into MPEG-1. you now have the poor-
quality video as an MPEG-1 stream, and can burn it to Video CD using toast.

Please don't steal things this way
---Alex Johnson

[stux]

or you could just use DVDExtractor.

See http://www.ripdifferent.com

[jaguarandi]

The above link no longer works (maybe the MPAA had something to do with it??)

This reminds me of a funny story I heard while in Japan this summer. Sony's very first batch of Playstation2's there (SCPH-10000 model) are capable of Component or RGP output, like all others. The difference is that there was no Macrovision-like 'protection' as there is on most all other DVD players, meaning that users could get a fairly good quality copy from a DVD stream into a TV and then back out to a VCR/computer/etc. This, coupled with the well-advertised fact that they could play DVDs from all regions and not just Region 2, have made them quite the collector's item in Tokyo =)

//e

[Yuri1419]

www.ripdifferent.com is slowly loading in another window for me, so the link isn't dead at this moment (tho it might have been earlier). The FAQ link there has the best tutorial on this topic I've seen, and will answer all the original poster's questions.

I've experimented with this DVD ripping stuff, and found it not to be worth the effort, in my book. Besides the huge time factor needed for converting mpeg2 -> mpeg1, the audio and video are ripped into separate files, and getting them to re-synch is not easy- I never got it perfect, and have Final Cut Pro at my disposal. I'd rather go buy a VCD from www.coolvcd.com for a few bucks than spend hours ripping, encoding, synching, burning, ect.

BTW, besides the PS2, older Apex players have macrovision defeats, CSS on-off toggle, and region-free abilities. See ww.nerd-out.com for the whole Apex story. They're very interesting machines.

[jeffrone]

all your answer are right hear... macdvd.org

jeff