[urrl5201]

I rented 3 DVD movies and used DVDBackup to save them to the hard drive. Then I returned the movies to the store and 1 day later in a motel somewhere in Georgia I am enjoying the first of the three movies. Wow. "Die Another Day" looked so good when it was finished it was as if I had returned from a real life adventure back into my hotel room. I am serious. And the Labtec speakers plugged into the earjak complete the experience. So ends the first evening of my vacation trip. After a few evenings when I run out of movies I guess I will finish editing that wedding video. Working on my vacation you say? Well with Final Cut Express it is more like fun than work.

Unbelievable; after the movie the handrest areas are only lukewarm. Oh, I know...some of you are still waiting for the new 15" and will not be swayed. Well I am not here to diswade you; in fact if the new 15" is anything like my 17" you will find the wait well worth it. Uh oh, I hear thunder. Time to unplug.

G'night All.

[Maquero]

enjoy your iLife

[shrink]

Get yourself DVD2ONE http://www.dvd2one.com to compress those files to 4.4 GB, and use Toast to burn them to DVD with your superdrive! Is there anything your powerbook can't do ?

[djjava]

Originally posted by shrink:
Get yourself DVD2ONE http://www.dvd2one.com to compress those files to 4.4 GB, and use Toast to burn them to DVD with your superdrive! Is there anything your powerbook can't do ?

now now.. that could be construed as violating a copyright law or something, or, eh, oh, forget it.

[pic9809]

That's all the endorsement i need to sell my TiBook for a 17" AlBook!

Question: what is DVDBackup and how do you use it to save DVD movies to your hard drive? Is it a laborious process? Assume you need some kind of DivX decoder? Any recommendations on decoders?

Many thanks in advance!

[Maquero]

Originally posted by djjava:
now now.. that could be construed as violating a copyright law or something, or, eh, oh, forget it.

if you baught the dvd why,should it?
but yeah lets forget about this
*spits at the MPAA*

[shrink]

Originally posted by pic9809:
That's all the endorsement i need to sell my TiBook for a 17" AlBook!

Question: what is DVDBackup and how do you use it to save DVD movies to your hard drive? Is it a laborious process? Assume you need some kind of DivX decoder? Any recommendations on decoders?

Many thanks in advance!

There's an extensive link on this process over in the software forum. The 1GHz 15" TiBook will also do this just fine.

It's a lengthy process. I'd guess:

Ripping: 45 minutes
Compressing: 30-40 minutes
Burning @ 1x: 60 minutes

Well worth it nonetheless...

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hlight=dvd2one

[urrl5201]

Saving only to the HD was not a difficult process at all. The DVD movie seemed to copy to the HD in only about one half hour! Being pressed for time, I was surprised. The only place I tripped up is when I clicked on Apple DVD player/file/open VIDEO_TS folder but did not actually click on the VIDEO_TS folder to open it. Just seeing VIDEO_TS in the menu is not enough. The player would give me a "could not detect a valid media file" error.

Another downside, as stated in a previous post, is that the DVD files come to about 7 GIG when copied to the hard drive, but even though I may transfer the movies onto my 800 firewire drive with 120 GIG later, I will eventually probably just erase them. Who looks at a movie more than twice? I don't travel often (hence, owning the 17") but the 17" makes the occassional trip a very enjoyable one, at least by car. I would never leave home without it.

Thanks for the info on compressing the files though. I wonder if the movie looks as good afterward? Are there compression artifacts? Do you HAVE to burn it to DVD or can you watch the compressed file from the HD?

DVDBackup link:

http://www.wormintheapple.gr/macdvd/....html#download

Thanks for all the comments!