The Wire DVD Backup [Archive]

cherrybomb

Mar 31, 2009, 11:50 AM

Before it's asked, I did a search for threads on this and received nothing.

I have got five series of the wire in DVD that I would like to backup (ahem!). I bought some recordable DVDs to back them up on to. I then realized that the original DVDs are a whopping 7.4GB worth, and I bought the standard 4.7GB dvds.

Is there any way that I could work around this? I would like to convert them to iPhone friendly formats at a later time but just wanted to backup my original copys before hand...

Any information would be great, oh and just so you know, I'm using a G4 1.5GHZ PowerBook running OS 10.4.11.

Thanks

synthfreek

Mar 31, 2009, 12:34 PM

look for a program called DVD2one.

Robbadore64

Mar 31, 2009, 01:44 PM

look for a program called DVD2one.

I've never used it so can't speak to it but if you're going from dual-layer to single layer DVDs, that means compression and that also means loss in quality. I've used mac-the-ripper and popcorn for this in the past to "back-up" my mother's movies to a safe place in my home. But the quality often sucked.

I'm guessing you don't have a dual-layer superdrive? sorry, I'm lazy and am not about to look up your specs ;)

Sky Blue

Mar 31, 2009, 02:20 PM

Before it's asked, I did a search for threads on this and received nothing.

You didn't look very hard ;)
If you don't have a dual layer, you'll have to compress them down. You might save some space to you extract the episodes only with Mac The Ripper.

mastershakess

Mar 31, 2009, 02:36 PM

You didn't look very hard ;)
If you don't have a dual layer, you'll have to compress them down. You might save some space to you extract the episodes only with Mac The Ripper.

He didn't look at all :(

cherrybomb

Apr 1, 2009, 04:21 AM

thanks people very informative, I guess my only option is mac the ripper. Silly me forgot that you extract within the dvd with mac the ripper...

Thank you