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stevo836

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Whenever I use forty-two to rip and convert a DVD, the status stays on Welcome and the bar is the moving stripes. Is this normal or is something wrong. I am just ripping the first 5 chapters of a DVD. Also, whenever I drag the DVD into the box and then click on the more button, it gives me an AppleScript Type 1 Error. I don't know if that has anything to do with it, but it may be the problem. The crappiness of my old B&W G3 350 may also be the problem. If anyone has any ideas on what the problem is, some advice would be great.
 
Are you using the most-recent version (1.6.2) in Panther? And, did you follow the installation instructions to the letter? That thing's not the friendliest of apps to install.
 
On a 800Mhz P3, it takes 8hours to rip and convert a 2hour DVD to MPEG4/Divx. So I would expect it to take 8 times as long as the movie you are trying to convert, on your Mac (so 1minuite or film will be ripped and converted to MPEG4 in 8minuites.)
 
got it to work...

I got forty-two to work finally. Now I just need to get the sound and video together in one format. I guess I didn't install something the first correctly.
 
I messed around with forty-two for a good 4 hours last night, and every time something wrong happened. I must have hit every wrong turn available. I followed the manual to the letter, too. All I want to be able to do is to view clips from my DVDs as movie files. Is it really so hard? Apparently, yes. I tried several other programs too, but to no avail.

So, I did a little more searching online, and finally came across Hand Brake over at VT. It doesn't give you chapter selection, and it only outputs to AVI, but that's good enough for me, because the bottom line is IT WORKS. And IT'S FREE. And if you have QT Pro you can convert it to other formats afterwards (like Moov or Mpeg). The only downside is it takes so dang long to transcode (on my old G4 400, at least.) I started transcoding a 1.5 hr. DVD last night at 10:00 PM and it won't get done until 1:00 PM today. Oh well!

Bottom line, I don't have a very high opinion of forty-two. And of course the version that WORKS you have to pay $25 for...
 
manual

Well, read the manual before you try to install it. You have to:

1)download the file
2)decompress the download file
3)open the image disk
4)drag the file folder entitled "forty-two" to the folder under: Mac HD(main partition)/Library/Application Support
5)Create a new folder named forty-two or whatever you want in applications and drap all the files from the image dis to the new folder(I'm not sure exactly which ones are essential to not delete so just keep them all)
6)open up forty-two and drag the icon of the dvd into the top left box and click and choose which options for ripping you want

The given directions from the makers is pretty straight-foward in you read the manual(in the image folder after decompression). Also make sure you get the latest version of forty-two (1.6.2). The only thing I need to do now is get the audio and video files together.
 
Re: manual

Originally posted by stevo836
Well, read the manual before you try to install it. You have to:
Click to expand...

Did all of that. To the letter. Made sure nothing had spaces or illegal characters in the names. Support files said they installed correctly. Launched forty-two, first DVD I put in, I get an AppleScript error. So I try a different DVD. This one shows up okay, so I try to output it in a Near-DVD format. Chews on it for a few minutes, and then outputs a video file about 1 minute long. So I reboot, decide to try giving it a VIDEO_TS folder after I use DVD Backup to save a local copy of the DVD on my hard drive. forty-two won't accept it. I tried dragging the folder to the app, and then tried a command+o. Nothing. So then I try ANOTHER DVD (this is 4, if anyone's counting) and try outputting it as an mpeg. Starts looping between "finished" and "transcoding". Spits the DVD out at me. Have to force-quit the app.

That doesn't sound like a correctly-working program to me...
 
AppleScript 1 Error?

At first I kept getting the AppleScript 1 Error when I went to more options, so I reinstalled it. I have the latest OS (10.3.2) but I don't know if that really matters. I havn't tried an entire DVD yet. I only ripped the first episode off the first DVD in the new 3rd season South Park collection. Where did you get that DVD ripping software from? I might try that too and see which I like the best, if you would be so kind as to give me a link.
 
:D Thanks! I'll test it out and see which is, in my opinion, easier to use/better output.
 
I tried out HandBrake, and I would say overall its easier to use than forty-two. The only thing that fory-two has over HandBrake is that forty-two allows you to rip selected chapters. Other than that, I found HandBrake to be simpler to use and a few more options. I think anyone that has forty-two should check HandBrake out and see what they like the best.
 
Handbrake is a really nice app. It only takes like 4-5 hours to rip a DVD on my iBook.
 
Is there an easy way to go from a DVD track that includes music (like a closing credits song or a DVD of a concert) to an audio-layer-only file, like an AAC?

If you make a movie file with Hand Brake, is there other software that will pull the audio layer out?

And if so, will the quality stink?
 
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