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MotorcycleBetty
Sep 27, 2008, 07:44 PM
Hello,

I've got some home movies I made that are on DVD and I want to rip them to my MBP but I can't get iTunes to recognize the disk. What other options do I have?


swiftaw
Sep 27, 2008, 07:45 PM
Handbrake
macbookairman
Sep 27, 2008, 07:47 PM
use handbrake (as posted above). heres a link for the download:

http://handbrake.fr/?article=download (10.5)

http://handbrake.fr/?article=old_versions (10.4)
MotorcycleBetty
Sep 28, 2008, 01:07 AM
I'm having trouble getting my Mac to recognize peripherals in general, and when I insert the disk I get a message that I've inserted a blank disk, and Mac doesn't recognize it as a mounted device. So I guess that leaves me out in the cold...
-DH
Sep 28, 2008, 09:08 AM
I'm having trouble getting my Mac to recognize peripherals in general, and when I insert the disk I get a message that I've inserted a blank disk, and Mac doesn't recognize it as a mounted device. So I guess that leaves me out in the cold...

Have the discs been finalized?

-DH
MotorcycleBetty
Sep 28, 2008, 11:08 AM
No. Disks are old and were never finalized.
-DH
Sep 28, 2008, 11:29 AM
No. Disks are old and were never finalized.

If the discs are not finalized, they won't be recognized by any DVD playback devices other than the original recorder (or similar model). What device were the discs originally recorded on?

-DH
MotorcycleBetty
Sep 30, 2008, 02:56 PM
Oh geez, it's been a few years... I don't know what the original machine was - we have so much trouble with recorders failing on us... I'm just trying to clean up my movies and get them organized on Mac. But I guess this is one that I will have to let go. It does play on a regular machine OK, so it's not like it's lost forever...