Play old HD DVD movies on new MacBook Pro?

[goMac]

Whoops, I should have read better before I replied! I thought you weren't using an HD-DVD player.

 

[497902]

I configured it to try it again 10 times every time it fails to read something. I'm sure it's because of this message:

HD-DVD support is limited - some discs may fail to open and not all audio and subtitle tracks will be preserved.

Does anyone know a solution?

 

[simon48]

Does anyone know a solution?

Have you tried another riper (like DVDFab) for just this disc?

 

[497902]

Have you tried another riper (like DVDFab) for just this disc?

Doesn't work with HD DVDs.

Another question: I'm wondering if it is no problem to put together multiple MP4 files into a single one with iMovie and if there will be no quality loss while doing so? That way I won't have to have a folder with multiple video files, but only a single file.

 

[simon48]

Play old HD DVD movies on new MacBook Pro?

Doesn't work with HD DVDs.

Really, not even an old version?

Another question: I'm wondering if it is no problem to put together multiple MP4 files into a single one with iMovie and if there will be no quality loss while doing so? That way I won't have to have a folder with multiple video files, but only a single file.

If it doesn't try to encode the video when you save it'll be the same. You could also find a free video joiner, QuickTime might be able to do it.

 

[497902]

Really, not even an old version?

Apparently a VERY old version was able to, but I highly doubt it if it will work with Mavericks or that I find the download. Isn't there another alternative?

If it doesn't try to encode the video when you save it'll be the same. You could also find a free video joiner, QuickTime might be able to do it.

How can I do this with QuickTime?

 

[simon48]

Apparently a VERY old version was able to, but I highly doubt it if it will work with Mavericks or that I find the download. Isn't there another alternative?

I don't know of another alternative off the top of my head. You'd probably have to run the very old version of DVDFab in Windows.

How can I do this with QuickTime?

Open the first video in QuickTime (X) and go Edit > Add clip to end, save and your done. I'm 90% sure this way won't re-encode the video, if it does let me know and I'll see if I can come up with a different way.

 

[priitv8]

I'm 90% sure this way won't re-encode the video, if it does let me know and I'll see if I can come up with a different way.

I'm 90% sure this don't even concatenate the 2 video tracks.
It will just add the tracks from 2nd movie to the MOV file plus a new track containing the edit points. That's at least what QT7 did. The result played back correctly only in QT, if memory serves.

 

[497902]

I don't know of another alternative off the top of my head. You'd probably have to run the very old version of DVDFab in Windows.

Did anyone find a download link?

Open the first video in QuickTime (X) and go Edit > Add clip to end, save and your done. I'm 90% sure this way won't re-encode the video, if it does let me know and I'll see if I can come up with a different way.

I'm 90% sure this don't even concatenate the 2 video tracks.
It will just add the tracks from 2nd movie to the MOV file plus a new track containing the edit points. That's at least what QT7 did. The result played back correctly only in QT, if memory serves.

So does that work now?

 

[Nermal]

You could try the trial version of AnyDVD HD in Windows*; I've ripped about 60 HD DVDs with it and they've all worked. It doesn't create an MKV file but it at least gets the content onto your hard drive, unprotected.

EVOdemux (also for Windows) can open .evo files and get the actual video/sound/subtitle tracks out.

*If using Boot Camp instead of a real PC or VM then you'll need to make a registry change: Set HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\RealTimeIsUniversal (DWORD) to 1. This will stop the AnyDVD trial from instantly expiring when the Boot Camp software updates the clock.

 

[497902]

You could try the trial version of AnyDVD HD in Windows*; I've ripped about 60 HD DVDs with it and they've all worked. It doesn't create an MKV file but it at least gets the content onto your hard drive, unprotected.

EVOdemux (also for Windows) can open .evo files and get the actual video/sound/subtitle tracks out.

*If using Boot Camp instead of a real PC or VM then you'll need to make a registry change: Set HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\RealTimeIsUniversal (DWORD) to 1. This will stop the AnyDVD trial from instantly expiring when the Boot Camp software updates the clock.

Nice, but not what I want since I won't be able to play the files on my Mac.

 

[simon48]

Did anyone find a download link?

Google is your friend, old versions. It looks like around version 5 supposedly supported HD DVDs.

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Nice, but not what I want since I won't be able to play the files on my Mac.

You'd be able to play it just fine on your Mac, you would just copy the ripped movie off your Boot Camp partition and onto your Mac partition.

 

[497902]

Google is your friend, old versions. It looks like around version 5 supposedly supported HD DVDs.

The oldest version there is from April 2009, more than a year after HD DVD lost the format war. I'm sure I gonna need an even older version which I just can't find on the internet.

You'd be able to play it just fine on your Mac, you would just copy the ripped movie off your Boot Camp partition and onto your Mac partition.

To play the HD DVD video format with which player? VLC doesn't support protected movies.

 

[simon48]

The oldest version there is from April 2009, more than a year after HD DVD lost the format war. I'm sure I gonna need an even older version which I just can't find on the internet.

There's a version 5 right at the bottom. I doubt DVDFab removed HD DVD support the day HD DVDs lost the war.

To play the HD DVD video format with which player? VLC doesn't support protected movies.

It will do a full copy and just remove the DRM like MakeMKV, and then you would put it through Handbrake, AnyDVD HD is an alternative to MakeMKV.

 

[497902]

I'll try it then later. This will work in a virtual machine, right?

 

[simon48]

I'll try it then later. This will work in a virtual machine, right?

Might be a bit fussy to get the Blu-Ray drive to show up, but it should work.

 

[Nermal]

Might be a bit fussy to get the Blu-Ray drive to show up, but it should work.

It definitely works in VMware so should work in others too.

 

[497902]

Might be a bit fussy to get the HD DVD drive to show up, but it should work.

Indeed it was a bit tricky, but I managed it.

However DVDFab 5.2.5.0, as I expected,

The oldest version there is from April 2009, more than a year after HD DVD lost the format war. I'm sure I gonna need an even older version which I just can't find on the internet.

doesn't recognise my HD DVDs.

 

[497902]

Any other alternative?

 

[simon48]

Any other alternative?

Did you try Nermal's suggestion?

 

[497902]

Did you try Nermal's suggestion?

Does HandBreak support the native HD DVD video format?

 

[simon48]

Play old HD DVD movies on new MacBook Pro?

Does HandBreak support the native HD DVD video format?

No idea if Handbrake can read AnyDVD's HD DVD output (might need to dig into a disk image to get to to something Handbrake read), Handbrake can read a ton of formats so you have a good chance.

Try it, experiment, see if it works.

You might need to try different settings for the rip and/or run the rip through MakeMKV before Handbrake.

 

[Nermal]

No idea if Handbrake can read AnyDVD's HD DVD output

I don't think it can, but it's been a while since I've tried to rip one. AnyDVD gives you a 1:1 copy of the .evo files.