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How to rip and burn internet movies on DVD
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I'd like to burn a movie that I found on movies.google but I'm a little confused as to the formats that are used.
The movie in question is in my Movies folder in .gvi format. I'd just like to burn it so that I can watch it on a regular dvd player/tv.
Also, that movie is 75 minutes long but the downloaded file is only 390 mb. Is it compressed?
Any tips for this?
(Last edited by dzp111; Apr 8, 2007 at 04:41 PM.
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Posting Junkie
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Convert it to MPEG4 or H.264 using one of the many "flash video ripper" tools available. Then use iMovie/iDVD to prepare that file for a DVD.
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Thanks mduell.
Which ripper would you recommend as far as ease-of-use? There are quite a few on Macupdate..
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Posting Junkie
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No idea, I've never used any of them.
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Well, so far I've tried File Juicer and Handbrake. None of these recognizes google's .gvi file.
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Clinically Insane
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You need an app that can convert the file from the proprietary google format to a regular one. There are utilities like that if it's You Tube video, but I don't know about google video.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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FYI, Google videos are just AVI files. Rename it from GVI to AVI, problem solved.
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Baninated
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gvi.never see this before,my movie converter(ImTOO DVD to iPod Suite ) can not support this format~Can rename gri. to avi. make work?
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Moderator Join Date: Apr 2005
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Yes. Renaming to .avi will make it work.
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ffmpegx app. will convert virtually any type of file to any other type of file.
But this is what I ended up doing:
The guys were right, gvi files are indeed avi files and I just had to change the extension. The key for me was patience. After I dragged the new avi file into iMovie it took over 3 hours for it to expand(?). My 390mb gvi (avi) file became a 2.4 Gb file. I then shared it it to iDVD and burned the DVD.
The reason for the long wait is probably due to the amount of RAM (512).
Thanks people.
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Clinically Insane
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iMovie's probably converting the video into DV, which is why it grows so large and takes so long to encode. Don't use iMovie for that purpose. Toast can burn AVIs directly.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Thanks Bic Mac. Toast did work but I had to convert from .flv (or .giv) to mpg4 first, else my dvd player did not recognize the file on the dvd. Once converted to mpg4 then it toasted as a dvd movie. What I'm trying to say is that Toast did burn .avi automatically like you said, but it wasn't readable on my dvd player.
I don't know if I'm making any sense.. But it worked.
iDVD did the trick as well, I just dragged the newly converted .mov file (mpg4) to a new project and burned it.
Thanks again.
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