Help backing up DVDs

Let me start by saying that I am terrible at keeping CD's and DVD's scratch free. They usually begin to skip and stutter within weeks of buying them. For this reason alone, I'd like to backup some of my favorites.

I just bought Benchwarmers and used MacTheRipper to rip it to my iMac. (I plan to play the copy from now on to preserve the original.)

How do I go about getting it on to a DVD so that I can play it in my DVD player?

Thanks.


P.S. I searched and did not find anything helpful, but then again, I can't search to save my life..
P.P.S. I'd like to be able to do this without spending any money on software if possible.

 

Oh, by the way, this will need to be done in 10.3.9, if that matters. My iMac is has the only DVD burner I have access to.

 

I hope so!

Thanks!

EDIT: Wait, so what exactly does handbrake do?

 

Thanks! I hope I can get this working. I hate buying DVD's twice.

 

Hm. When I insert a blank DVD, nothing happens. The drive makes a kind of bump noise, but nothing else happens. Eventually the disk is ejected on it's own with no message on the screen as to why.

I can burn CD's fine, and it asks what I want to do when I insert a CD, but not a DVD (and yes, the settings are the same in System Prefs).

It has a Superdrive, so is it possible that it just doesn't like the disks that I have?

If it matters, the disks are Philips 16x 4.7GB DVD+R's. Should I have gotten -R's or something?

 

Yeah, my power went out for the second time today. Somebody must've hit a transformer or something.

Thanks, I looked up some info on the web and found the same basic story so.. crap. I just bought a ton of DVD+R's because I'm a jackass and didn't do my homework beforehand.

 

I think I'm going to rip with MTR, use DVD Imager to great a disk image, and Disk Utility to write to DVD.

Any reason why a copy made this way wouldn't play in my DVD player (other than having the wrong damn disk type)?

 

They are 4.7GB disks. Is that alright?

 

I know this part, but I did not know if there were actually "4.3GB" and "4.7GB" DVD's available. Just trying to make sure I know exactly what to get as I am just now beginning to dabble in the world of DVD's and such (writing to them, that is. I've been watching them for years, obviously ).

Thanks for the help so far, everyone.

 

All the DVD's I rip and covert to images total ~7-8GB and my disks are only 4.3 or whatever. How can I get these to fit on the DVD's I have?

I have ripped just the movie itself (no extras) and brought the file sizes down to around 5GB, but obviously they still won't fit.

Is there anything I can do? Maybe reduce the quality or something?

 

How much does that program cost?