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ngrande · May 26, 2002, 10:59 AM

I am a college student working on a fake television commercial for an art class. I wanted to import a short 10 second clip from a DVD into this After Effects project I was working on. Is there any way to rip a movie DVD with audio into a computer file in OS X? If not OS 9 would suffice. Thanks for any and all help.

Nick

fulmer · May 26, 2002, 11:03 PM

I have found DVDbackup 1.1 to be of value.

You are of course talking about non-copyrighted DVDs.

Look at <a href="http://www.opuscc.com/download/" target="_blank">http://www.opuscc.com/download/</a> for the program. there are many programs here, so you'll have to scroll down a bit.

The direct download is <a href="http://www.opuscc.com/download/FTP/DVDBackup1.1.sit" target="_blank">http://www.opuscc.com/download/FTP/DVDBackup1.1.sit</a>
but you should check out the web page and read its desription to see if it is what you want. There may be others there for you.

zurek106 · May 28, 2002, 07:56 AM

Has anyone tried out OSEx 0.0101a4 (DVDExtractor For OS X)? Is it better than DVDBackup?
-Dan

tr · May 28, 2002, 03:12 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by zurek106:
Has anyone tried out OSEx 0.0101a4 (DVDExtractor For OS X)? Is it better than DVDBackup?
-Dan<hr /></blockquote>haven't tried DVDBackup, but have tried OSeX (don't know what version). it took a long time to find my DVD, chapters, etc., and i had to force quit a couple times. haven't had good results thus far. i just end up using DVDextractor in 9.

i'll have to give DVDBackup a try, i didn't know there was another ripping utility in X.

tr

fulmer · May 29, 2002, 12:29 AM

DVDBackup is good. It took a long time, perhaps 30 minutes, on my tibook 677, 5400 rpm drive. No doubt on a desktop machine it'll be faster. however, the DVD drive may be the bottleneck.

Read the app's read me for instructions (fairly simple, but a few notes). It will save the DVD info to a VIDEO_TS folder. If you want to play the backed-up DVD, then you can use Apple's DVD player to select that folder. It plays fine.

If you have the time and storage, it would be wise to backup your DVDs. They are so fragile, and if anything happens, I doubt the RIAA will pay to replace them.

zurek106 · May 29, 2002, 07:51 AM

I don't have a DVD-R drive so should I convert the video files to VCD format? What would you recomend I change the media to so that I can store DVD's on regular CD-R's without loosing a lot of quality and without using up 10 discs and be able to watch them on my computer at any time?
-Dan

zurek106 · May 29, 2002, 07:53 AM

I don't have a DVD-R drive so should I convert the video files to VCD format? What would you recomend I change the media to so that I can store DVD's on regular CD-R's without loosing a lot of quality and without using up 10 discs and be able to watch them on my computer at any time?
-Dan

seratne · May 30, 2002, 12:56 PM

quicktime6 and .mp4

juanvaldes · Jun 5, 2002, 07:55 PM

okay, ripped a DVD and can play it back in DVD player but how do I get it into QT6/iMovie/FCP3/anything?

lucylawless · Jun 5, 2002, 09:51 PM

I think he was referring to the fact that qt6 will eventually read mpeg-2 files

juanvaldes · Jun 5, 2002, 11:04 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by lucylawless:
I think he was referring to the fact that qt6 will eventually read mpeg-2 files<hr /></blockquote>So when QT6 is out and its' not crippled I can edit the video in there?

wulf · Jun 6, 2002, 05:59 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />okay, ripped a DVD and can play it back in DVD player but how do I get it into QT6/iMovie/FCP3/anything?<hr /></blockquote>You can convert it with MacMPEG2Decoder (for OS X) or MPEG2Decoder 1.4 (OS 9)... both available from <a href="http://www.opuscc.com/download/" target="_blank">opuscc.com/download</a>

hope this helps,
wulf

juanvaldes · Jun 6, 2002, 07:12 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by wulf:
 <blockquote>quote:<hr />okay, ripped a DVD and can play it back in DVD player but how do I get it into QT6/iMovie/FCP3/anything?<hr /></blockquote>You can convert it with MacMPEG2Decoder (for OS X) or MPEG2Decoder 1.4 (OS 9)... both available from <a href="http://www.opuscc.com/download/" target="_blank">opuscc.com/download</a>

hope this helps,
wulf<hr /></blockquote>yeah, thanks but I found this about..oh....4 hours ago.

murthys · Jun 7, 2002, 07:45 AM

Is there anyway to preview the DVD files before extracting them? I'm only interested in a portion of the DVD and I don't want to copy the entire thing (which will take hours), play back one by one and keep only the one file I want.

I'm using DVD backup on OSX

Thanks,

Satya

juanvaldes · Jun 9, 2002, 11:42 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by murthys:
Is there anyway to preview the DVD files before extracting them? I'm only interested in a portion of the DVD and I don't want to copy the entire thing (which will take hours), play back one by one and keep only the one file I want.

I'm using DVD backup on OSX

Thanks,

Satya<hr /></blockquote>As far as I know their is nothing to do that for you. Only thing I can think of is lucky guesswork and educated guesses. Try just doing a section out of the middle and use that to guess where the part your after is. <img border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" title="" src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" />

Big T · Jun 10, 2002, 01:04 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by murthys:
Is there anyway to preview the DVD files before extracting them? I'm only interested in a portion of the DVD and I don't want to copy the entire thing (which will take hours), play back one by one and keep only the one file I want.

I'm using DVD backup on OSX

Thanks,

Satya<hr /></blockquote>Actually, I use VideoLAN client. It plays .m2v and VOB files (Mpeg 2) from DVD's. It's also the only free program that I know that plays VCD and SVCD's. Give it a try:
<a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=14738&db=mac" target="_blank">http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=14738&db=mac</a>

[ 06-10-2002, 02:07 AM: Message edited by: Big T ]

iamnotmad · Jun 12, 2002, 09:57 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by wulf:
 <blockquote>quote:<hr />okay, ripped a DVD and can play it back in DVD player but how do I get it into QT6/iMovie/FCP3/anything?<hr /></blockquote>You can convert it with MacMPEG2Decoder (for OS X) or MPEG2Decoder 1.4 (OS 9)... both available from <a href="http://www.opuscc.com/download/" target="_blank">opuscc.com/download</a>

hope this helps,
wulf<hr /></blockquote>Any way to convert the vob files with audio? MacMPEG2Decoder did a great job, but no audio!
Thanks.

zurek106 · Jun 19, 2002, 03:19 PM

Once I have a DVD Video_TS file extracted to my HD, is there a way that i can stuff it and burn it onto a cd? I want to do this so that I could store DVD's on CD's and any time I want to watch them I would just extract the file.
-Dan

juanvaldes · Jun 24, 2002, 04:21 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by zurek106:
Once I have a DVD Video_TS file extracted to my HD, is there a way that i can stuff it and burn it onto a cd? I want to do this so that I could store DVD's on CD's and any time I want to watch them I would just extract the file.
-Dan<hr /></blockquote>Stuffit?
I'm not sure if it will compress down that much though, but I am sure you can do it with a few CD's.

rohan · Jun 24, 2002, 05:18 AM

Hi,
This is kind of related so I will post it here - hope I don't p�@$ anyone off!

I am looking for a way to keep a DVD on my hard-drive and have been looking at a number of ways. It has to be in OSX. On a new iMac, which I no longer have access to, the easiest way was to use DiskCopy to create an image using the Create Image from Device option. However, when I try this on my TiBook (Combo drive) I get a image failed due to impu/output error (or something like that).

I then tried DVD Backup which i downloaded from <a href="http://www.opuscc.com" target="_blank">http://www.opuscc.com</a> and tried to use that. When I used this program for ripping US DVDs, the sytem worked brilliantly (American Pie 2 and Moulin Rouge if you're interested). However, anytime I try and do it with other DVDs, it gets part opf the way through one of the .VOB files and then fails saying tehre was a read/write error. It happens almost at random in different files and I have tried toggling the various decryption options.

Thank you VERY much for any help you can give me,

Cheers,

Rohan

Eug · Jun 24, 2002, 03:32 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by zurek106:
Once I have a DVD Video_TS file extracted to my HD, is there a way that i can stuff it and burn it onto a cd? I want to do this so that I could store DVD's on CD's and any time I want to watch them I would just extract the file.
-Dan<hr /></blockquote>You're not going to save any real space with a compression utility. Burn it? Yeah, a current movie is going to take about 10 CDs (unless you re-encode to an unwatchably low bitrate). In other words, most movies these days won't even fit on a DVD-R unless you re-encode the video, so I wouldn't bother at this point trying to archive your DVDs unless you have several hundred GB of hard drive space to spare.

Anyways, for those people with tons of space: What you can do is use Toast to create a DVD image on your HD (after ripping with DVD Backup 1.1 to created the decrypted VIDEO_TS folder). This gets saved as one humungous .toast file which can be mounted just like any other image.

You can do the same thing on PCs with Nero and Image Drive.