Sheza the Mac
macrumors newbie
I am currently attempting to back up my large collection of rare TV series DVD's. I've had some specifically imported etc. spent a lot of money so I really want hard uncompressed copies for standard DVD playback. Here's the problem:
These series are all large in size. Each individual DVD once ripped (using mac the ripper to .VOB files) onto my hard drive equates to roughly 7GB. I hate to be picky, but I've already tried compressing down to a 4.7GB disc and the quality is just annoyingly bad.
So quite a while ago I purchased DVD Cloner for Mac. I went into the software (I would select the .IFO file from the VIDEO_TS folder in the source destination drive, which would access all the other associated files) and tried using the 1:1 full DVD copy option (so I purchased DVD DL's - very expensive!) but it didn't work.
So I then attempted using DVD Cloner's specific other option: - Burn the large files uncompressed onto 2 x 4.7GB DVD discs. This option is brilliant for me but here's what happens:
The 1st disc is perfect: It has all menus etc. + 1 hour episode + another HALF an episode completely uncompressed.... naturally the software burns the other episode and a half onto the 2nd disc - when I play this 2nd disc it automatically starts where the end of disc 1 stopped (this is fine) and it continues fine up until the end of that episode....then once it reaches that episode's credits it completely freezes. So I can't watch the entire last episode. It won't even play. And another thing - you can't access the menu at all on the 2nd disc even though I specified with DVD cloner for it to copy the menu over onto the 2nd disc. I've attempted this process with several of my different TV series and the exact same thing happens to all of them.
I don't know if it has something to do with encryption but I thought once it's ripped with mac the ripper the encryption is broken? I understand this could be a legal thing but they are my legally purchased DVD's after all, backing up for my personal use and using a DVD software at $80 I thought this shouldn't be a problem?
I've been reading up on Roxio's Popcorn software and it looks as though it's got a specific section for copying using the disc image from the VIDEO_TS folder - just like what I've been doing with DVD Cloner - but it only mentions being able to compress it down to 4.7GB which is not what I'm attempting. Does anyone know if you can use Popcorn to copy uncompressed onto 2 x DVD's 4.7GB? If so does it work? Unlike DVD cloner? I'd be willing to pay the dollars even for Toast if it works but if it doesn't work getting a refund will no doubt be a mission and half.
If anyone has any advice I'd be very thankful - I understand this is pretty in depth - I've searched lots of forums but no ones had this exact question as I think most people are fairly content with compression and are normally just burning a movie (not large TV series).
Cheers,
Sheza
These series are all large in size. Each individual DVD once ripped (using mac the ripper to .VOB files) onto my hard drive equates to roughly 7GB. I hate to be picky, but I've already tried compressing down to a 4.7GB disc and the quality is just annoyingly bad.
So quite a while ago I purchased DVD Cloner for Mac. I went into the software (I would select the .IFO file from the VIDEO_TS folder in the source destination drive, which would access all the other associated files) and tried using the 1:1 full DVD copy option (so I purchased DVD DL's - very expensive!) but it didn't work.
So I then attempted using DVD Cloner's specific other option: - Burn the large files uncompressed onto 2 x 4.7GB DVD discs. This option is brilliant for me but here's what happens:
The 1st disc is perfect: It has all menus etc. + 1 hour episode + another HALF an episode completely uncompressed.... naturally the software burns the other episode and a half onto the 2nd disc - when I play this 2nd disc it automatically starts where the end of disc 1 stopped (this is fine) and it continues fine up until the end of that episode....then once it reaches that episode's credits it completely freezes. So I can't watch the entire last episode. It won't even play. And another thing - you can't access the menu at all on the 2nd disc even though I specified with DVD cloner for it to copy the menu over onto the 2nd disc. I've attempted this process with several of my different TV series and the exact same thing happens to all of them.
I don't know if it has something to do with encryption but I thought once it's ripped with mac the ripper the encryption is broken? I understand this could be a legal thing but they are my legally purchased DVD's after all, backing up for my personal use and using a DVD software at $80 I thought this shouldn't be a problem?
I've been reading up on Roxio's Popcorn software and it looks as though it's got a specific section for copying using the disc image from the VIDEO_TS folder - just like what I've been doing with DVD Cloner - but it only mentions being able to compress it down to 4.7GB which is not what I'm attempting. Does anyone know if you can use Popcorn to copy uncompressed onto 2 x DVD's 4.7GB? If so does it work? Unlike DVD cloner? I'd be willing to pay the dollars even for Toast if it works but if it doesn't work getting a refund will no doubt be a mission and half.
If anyone has any advice I'd be very thankful - I understand this is pretty in depth - I've searched lots of forums but no ones had this exact question as I think most people are fairly content with compression and are normally just burning a movie (not large TV series).
Cheers,
Sheza
