How to make a copy of DVD movies on Mac OS X

[danke]

I have at hand a great number of DVD movie collections, and some of them are very old. I have to take good care of these old DVD discs. However, exactly last Sunday, when I wanted to watch a movie, one of my favorite DVD movies became eternally unusable as it was over-scratched.

While accepting the fact, it is necessary for me to find an active and effective way to solve the problem. If I had had an extra copy of the disc, I could still enjoy the movie. So I guess whether there exist such programs that backup DVD movies to blank DVD discs so that I can still take the copy out even if the original disc is broken or out of use. I made a Google search for them and my final target was Wondershare DVD Copy for Mac. I only wanted to backup those old DVD movies. What frustrated me was that the majority of them are copyright protected and the other applications I found were not able to copy the DVD movies. However, this program helped me out. It can remove the protection mechanisms for me and I can make another copy of my movies.

Besides, I also have several VIDEO_TS folders that were ripped from several DVD's before. I thought this was able to keep the DVD movies, however, I found this help me nothing but take up much hard drive space. In the end, I burnt these ripped files to DVD's again.

So you see, this Mac application really lent me a helping hand. Now, I don't need to worry about how to save the DVD discs' life even if they are terminally unusable. And I don't need to rip the DVD's to my computer in order to back up them. And for you, I am sure you can find it more useful and helpful. Well worth a shot, in one word.

 

[Sentinel]

Thanks for the link. I will check it out.
Did you check up on Handbrake ? Will let you know in a day if there are other options, too.

 

[danke]

Thanks for the link. I will check it out.
Did you check up on Handbrake ? Will let you know in a day if there are other options, too.

Thanks for sharing.
I've tried handbrake before.
It did very well in ripping/backing up dvd movies, but not copying dvd movies to blank dvd discs.

 

[danke]

Here is the step by step guide for the Mac DVD Copy program
http://www.mac-dvd-ripper.com/guide/mac-dvd-copy-guide.html

 

[danke]

Are there any recommendations for free Mac programs that can convert video files to dvd disc?

 

[danke]

Here I found a step by step tutorial about how to edit DVD movies on Mac OS X and burn DVD discs with iDVD
http://mactheripper.spoonylife.com/how-to-edit-dvd-and-burn-dvd-on-mac-os-x-669.html
It can help to edit a half-prepared DVD movie, say a DVD taken by DVD camcorder, to a high quality DVD.

 

[Sentinel]

Thanks for your inputs, Danke.

 

[danke]

HandBrake is a free DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter for Mac OS X 10.3.9 and later. Here is a step by step tutorial about how to use HandBrake to convert your DVDs into MP4 format for storage and playback on your hard drive
http://macdvdripper.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/how-to-rip-dvd-on-mac-with-handbrake/

 

[danke]

Have you played Minesweeper on Windows? It is not just for Windows anymore!
I poked around the Internet for a decent Minesweeper version for Mac OS X and really found one that was to my liking.

And you are sure to find the game called Magic Pen below rather creative(make clever use of your physics):

If you have interest in them, you can go to http://www.mac-dvd-ripper.com/article/free-mac-game.html to download them for free.

 

[danke]

Top 10 Mac freeware applications download:
http://www.mac-dvd-ripper.com/article/free-mac-application.html
They are really very useful for those who own a Mac.

 

[Sentinel]

I've been struggling with this.
I have taken some video clips of my tennis motion. I convert them to image sequences. Now I want to make one image of them, like a contact sheet or montage. After a lot of googling came up with this:

1. iPhoto: can use Card option, but it does not do a 6x6 like i may want.

2. photoshop: has a contact sheet option. Quite good, but it creates thumbnails of the files. Since I am using a video clip with v low res, the thumbnail is almost not viewable.
So this failed, too.


3. Seashore: this is my current option, manual and a pain. Manually cut and paste into one file. If I want to do this repeatedly, no simple way.

4. Finally, *again* downloading ImageMagick. Hopefully it will do the job. Problem is, whenever we upgrade OS version, softwares like ImageMagick stop working due to broken links.