Well, I currently do the following: Download the following from macupdate.com or versiontracker.com
3ivx (free) QuickTime Pro 6 (you'll have to buy a serial number for this) 0SEx 0.0110a1 (free) DiVA (free) mAC3dec 1. Install (free) the 3ivx QuickTime codec 2. Launch DVD player and select from Window > Show Info 3. Note the Title number when you play the movie. 4. Select the various soundtracks you want (main audio and commentary tracks) and note the audio track number 5. Quit DVD Player and launch 0SEx 6. Select the title popup menu and select the title number you first noted. Usually the title with the longest running time will be the movie. Oftentimes, some DVDs will have both widescreen and fullscreen versions on the same side. Just select the title number you saw when you played the movie 7. Select the subtitles popup menu and de-select all subtitles 8. Select the audio popup menu and de-select all the audio tracks you don't need or want 9. Click on the Fmt popup button. This is an abbreviation for Format. Select elementary streams to split the video into m2v (the video portion) and AC3 (the audio portion). 10. Launch DiVA and crop the video so that you get rid of excess black bars usually found on the edges. There are more hints on how to crop the video at the 3ivx forums at forums.3ivx.com 11. Click on compression and select 3ivx. Usually use Constant Quality if you want better quality video but this usually means the final video size is unpredictable. Use variable quality to better determine final output size. Again, check the 3ivx forums for suggestions on finding the best compression rate. You can try scaling the video down to 512 pixels wide by whatever size tall to get the file size even smaller. Even at 512 pixels wide, it usually doubles up quite nicely with very little degradation. 14. Click on start button to set the video encoding in motion. 15. Launch mAC3dec, select MOV to output your audio into a quicktime movie format. Then click on QT Options, make sure you are set to 44.1 kHz, 16 bit stereo. Click on the options button, check to make sure you have AAC (Low Complexity), 128 kbps or 160 kbps, best quality. You want to set the sound to 44.1 Hz because Macs usually will downsample 44.8 kHz audio down to 44.1 kHz anyways. You may as well have it downsampled 'cuz it will take more CPU processing time to downsample anyways. Best quality is usually reserved for DVD audio will Better quality is better suited for CD audio. AAC should be set to a minimum of 128 kbps or more. 160 kbps is a good compromise. Drag the AC3 audio files to the mAC3dec window and click start 16. When the video and audio is finished, launch QuickTime player. Open the audio file that you created in mAC3dec, Select All, and Copy. Open the video, Select All, then Edit > Add. Click Save As to save it as a single file. Voila. You need Quicktime Pro 6 to be able to save. An unregistered Quicktime will not allow you to save. You have created a Quicktime version of your DVD. More hints and suggestions are at forums.3ivx.com Yes, it's quite complicated when you first get started, but you'll get the hang of things. The above applications definitely make life easier for Mac OS X users. On 8/1/03 11:28 AM, the Defendant "G-Books" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Subject: Re: DVD Copy > From: Lewin Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> Here is the process that I go through to copy a DVD. > > I'm not interested in copying DVDs, but I *am* interested in putting > them on my home server so I can watch them over Wi-Fi on my PowerBook > without having to go to the DVD shelf (and also save the lifespan of my > DVD-ROM drive.. plus I can copy them to my hard drive for viewing at > work without carting DVDs around). I currently use my PC to compress my > DVDs to ~650Mb DivX files. Is there an application that will allow me > to do that in OS X? I've got as far as ripping and de-CSSing the files > using DVDBackup (you have to do the audio and video streams separately, > right?) but I can't find anything that will import the VOBs and > compress them to 3ivx/DivX/other MPEG-4 format. Any ideas? > > Also: :-) Wilson - Guam, U.S.A. - - - P L E A S E C U T A L O N G D O T T E D L I N E - - - You can bend my ear We can talk all day Just make sure I'm around When you've finally got something to say. -- TOAD THE WET SPROCKET -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 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