[mitchell_pgh]

So my friend doesn't have a DVD player in his Mac.

Could I place a DVD in my drive, copy it to my HD, and them AFP it to his drive (naturally this could take a very long time and a large % of his HD)

I'm just wondering if he (the guy without a DVD Drive) would be able to play the DVD using DVD Player (or VLC if he doesn't have DVD Player).

For the sake of the forum, let's say this is a DVD that I made from iDVD.

[fulmer]

If his mac is so old that it doesn't have a dvd drive, then the playback isn't going to be pretty. however, it should work, given that you rip your iDVD disc correctly.

[mitchell_pgh]

He is on a 733 tower...

For the sake of argument, let's say I had two computers, one without a DVD drive and one with. I buy a movie and place it in my DVD G4 tower and copy the commercial DVD to the hard drive, then transfer it to the G4 non DVD drive computer.

It will still work, won't it?

[Oneota]

Yup. In fact, if you can get the DVD Player app to launch on the non-DVD-equipped Mac, you can use the Open VIDEO_TS Folder… option and open the DVD's contents directly from the other machine (either from the HD, or, theoretically, from the DVD itself).

[mitchell_pgh]

Originally posted by Oneota:
Yup. In fact, if you can get the DVD Player app to launch on the non-DVD-equipped Mac, you can use the Open VIDEO_TS Folder… option and open the DVD's contents directly from the other machine (either from the HD, or, theoretically, from the DVD itself).

Oh.... very interesting... What type of connection do you need? 10 MB/s?

We have an old school 1 MB/s line (coax cable running my my house to my friends house)...

Could I use that?

[ReggieX]

If he's on OSX and doesn't have the Apple DVD player, just use VLC: http://videolan.org

[Oneota]

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
Oh.... very interesting... What type of connection do you need? 10 MB/s?

We have an old school 1 MB/s line (coax cable running my my house to my friends house)...

Could I use that?

Hmm..probably not. I thought you were both on the same LAN.

In your case, copying the VIDEO_TS folder from one Mac to the other via FTP or some such method would be the best way.

[Kenneth]

DVD Backup 1.3 should do the job for dumping the entire DVD to HD.

For commercial DVD, it is about 7.xGB.
For DVD-R, it is about 4.xGB.

I believe that the G4/733 tower has the gigabit Ethernet on the mobo.

[mitchell_pgh]

Originally posted by Kenneth:
DVD Backup 1.3 should do the job for dumping the entire DVD to HD.

For commercial DVD, it is about 7.xGB.
For DVD-R, it is about 4.xGB.

I believe that the G4/733 tower has the gigabit Ethernet on the mobo.

I shouldn't need DVD Backup 1.3 as I'm not trying to decrypt the DVD. I'm simply trying to copy it's content on to a HD and then transfering it to another computer to watch.

Yes, the 733 has a gigabit ethernet card, but the network is run over coax (it's an old network) and I think it runs at 1MB/s... but I'm not sure)

I'm also considering buying a nice 120 GB hard drive and storing some of my Netflix movies on there so I can watch them when I want to... and not worry about holding on to the disks...

I should be able to simply copy them over to my HD and watch them without the disk...

Am I missing something?

[Uncle Skeleton]

the encryption is in the hardware, not the software. If you want the information to leave the physical disc and still be readable, you'll have to decrypt it (if it's encrypted in the first place)

[Appleman]

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
I shouldn't need DVD Backup 1.3 as I'm not trying to decrypt the DVD. I'm simply trying to copy it's content on to a HD and then transfering it to another computer to watch.

That's where DVD backup comes in: it actually takes away de encoding in order to watch the movie without having the DVD in your drive, but just read from harddisk.
I would say the encoding checks for physical DVD disk appearance.