>Mac the Ripper:
<http://www.ripdifferent.com/~mtr/>
Rips well, and with a wide variety of options (entire DVD, main program
only, Region change, etc).
But, getting it back on a playable DVD is the problem.
Even features which are under 2 hours often produce more than 4.7 GB of
data.
That sounds entirely reasonable. Video is data intensive.
Any specific recommendations as to authoring tools, to produce a DVD
which will actually play?
I've already encountered situations where a player would accept a +R but
not a -R.
I don't know about commercial players . My experience with projects
is on darkside computers which, unless equipped with a DVD/R+- drive
burn only R+
And, what to do about the 4.7 GB limitation for a single-layer +/-R?
MPEG4 ? Or put the file through an NLE program or utility for trimming.
My plan is to upgrade my Lombard with a UJ-845B, which does have
double-layer write capability, but right now I am limited to single-layer.
Make sure your stand-alone player ( if that is a target machine for
replay) reads dual layer.
I hope the ripper works well. Even the good one I have seen mangles
the picture somewhat. The others make files that are unusable without
a lot of experimentation and tweaking. I don't know if these programs
decode or merely do a D-A-D conversion. But since you start with MPEG
which is compressed and " lossy " already picture quality suffers in
the process. Pixel dropout is common.
--
Adrian
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