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Rescuing old family movies

I have a bunch of home movies, that were burnt onto DVDs using iDVD years ago, circa 2004. I am able to copy the discs using Disc Utility but that just gives me a copy of the original DVD on my hard drive. I would like to get access to the original movie files that are stored on the DVD-R (MP4s perhaps). In Finder it shows two folders on the DVD-R disc - one Audio_TS, one Video_TS. There is nothing in the Audio_TS folder and non of the files inside the Video_TS are readable by my MacBook Pro. Does anyone know how to get access to those videos?

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Mar 10, 2019 6:51 PM

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The original movie files do not exist on the iDVD disk. You will need to use an app to rip the movies out of the encoded iDVD disk image.


Handbrake is an open source, free app to convert video files or rip unprotected video DVDs.


Posted on Mar 11, 2019 11:16 AM

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