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MacTheRipper alternatives?
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You can use either Popcorn or Toast to burn your ripped DVD to a blank DVD. These apps will also compress the video down to the right size to fit on a single layer DVD, if that's necessary (and the compression looks really good - usually as good as the original). And of course, you need an optical drive capable of burning DVD's...
In the few hours since I posted I've given up on waiting for the UB verison of MacTheRipper. I just went ahead and purchased Fast DVD Copy. It cost USD$99 but I had to upgrade to DVD2oneX 2.x or buy Popcorn 2 anyway so I thought what the hell. It does everything from ripping, ripping & compressing, and ripping & compressing then burning. Plus it's a UB, expensive but exactly what I needed!
Like me you probably requested the donation info and didnt get a response. I waited a few days and finnally found it somewhere else, I guess ill donate or buy it when its a final release. Let us know how that program works out for you.
vgoklani said:
I tried a few times to obtain the info, I really wanted to donate to this project, i will try again and see what happens. I agree with you 100% about the software being the best. I would much rather obtain the software the official way rather then scouring the internet for a shady website.
Handbrake is superior to Mactheripper in my opinion. Just ripped Crash, and it maintains DVD quality well, and is nice and pacy. And its not complicated at all. 
I just think it is generally an all round better made app. Easier to use, does its job well, etc.
Has anyone used this "Fast DVD Copy" software talked about a few posts up? It looks like something I might be interested in, but I'd like to know if it works.
I have an Intel Mac and tried to use Mac The Ripper last night, every time my computer crashed. So I tried Handbrake. I needed to rip and encode a DVD in AVI format without any loss for editing. I wasn't able to do it. The first copy took a huge quality hit, so I adjusted the average quality to 100%. It took 2 hours to encode and in the end I wasn't able to play the file. It would have taken me less time to do an analogue passthrough... which was what I was trying to avoid in the first place.
I have an Intel Mac and tried to use Mac The Ripper last night, every time my computer crashed. So I tried Handbrake. I needed to rip and encode a DVD in AVI format without any loss for editing. I wasn't able to do it. The first copy took a huge quality hit, so I adjusted the average quality to 100%. It took 2 hours to encode and in the end I wasn't able to play the file. It would have taken me less time to do an analogue passthrough... which was what I was trying to avoid in the first place.
Don't feel bad, wrc fan, because in your sentence there, "hip new lingo" actually means "old lingo misapplied by people who don't understand it."wrc fan said:
I just got the latest version of MacTheRipper. The universal version is nice but still a bit buggy for some things. I really need a faster drive then this old x6 DVD-ROM.