[jorgem4]

I am close to a very long day of traveling or actually 2 days of traveling and i thought that taking my PB and playing DVD's on it would be a good entretainment.

The thing is that I don't want to take all of my DVD's with me on the plane, and pop one out and put another one in, and i just don't have the space in my backpack for them. But I do have a lot of hard drive space on my PB.

I was wondering if there is a way to store the DVD in my hard drive and a file and the just watch them on quicktime or some player.

Anyone knows if this is possible...and if so how to do it?

Thanks.

[iOliverC]

Yup, there is:

Insert the dvd, then go into the DVD's contents and drag everything from it into a folder. Now open DVD Player and click

File ->> Open VIDEO_TS Folder...

In the open panel navigate to where you put your DVD that you extracted.

Hope this helps,
Oliver

[Weezer]

you will probably need to use this to break the encryption on the dvd.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18599

[chaldean oracle]

Yes, you want to use DVDBackup to copy the files from the DVD to your hard disk, and remove the encryption at the same time. Works flawlessly.

Bear in mind that each DVD is four to nine gigs, so your "a lot of hard drive space" may soon become less than you thought

I have seven movies on my hard disk, and it takes up as much room as my entire music collection, ~ 40 gigs. Something's going to have to give!

[jorgem4]

Thanks alot for the posts....I am using the DVD Backup program and everything is just the way I wanted. Another good side on this y that I wont be lossing battery life spining the DVD on the drive...so my battery will last longer!

Thanks.

[rjenkinson]

although you wouldn't have to carry the DVDs with you on the plane, what about power consumption? would reading gigs of data off the hard drive for 2 hours use more of your battery than the DVD drive?

-r.

[jorgem4]

Well...about the battery life issue, my hypotesis is that if the DVD is in the drive. In other word watching the movie of the DVD will suck more battery because everytime I insert a CD or DVD in the drive the fans go super fast and the machine just looks like it is doing a lot of work.

How ever been a ture engineer I must relay on actual DATA and so I will run the following experiment:

I will charge the PB to 100% battery and play a movie of the hard drive while runing xCharge (a battery consumption program).

Then I will recharge the PB to 100% again and run the same movie from the DVD and see which one consumes more battery life.

I will keep all the setting the same to make it fair and repot upon the compleation of my investigation.