How do I download a DVD to my mac 10.9.2?

Where are you trying to download the video from? Website? Camera?

Type of video? .Mov, .avi, mp4, etc.?

I can't figure out how to download the DVD.

The DVD is on your desktop?

ajay3142 wrote:

From the DVD (disc) to the computer for iMovie or even just straight to iMovie

Your system profile confirms you are using a Mac Pro. Is this correct? You posted in the Macbook Pro forums.

Mac Pros have an optical drive I believe. Insert the disc into the optical drive. The disc should show on your desktop.

Mac Pro

If in fact you do have a Macbook Pro, which model do you have & does it have an optical drive? Also, correct your system profile so that you can receive the correct troubleshooting instructions.

ajay3142 wrote:

The disc is in my drive. The extension at the end of the video says .VOB Not sure if this helps. I'm not very tech savy.

Very helpful. Thank you. Will have a HOST move your post over to the iMovie forums. The iMove experts hang out there.

You need to convert the VOB files in the TS-Folder of the DVD back to DV which iMovie is designed to handle. For that you need mpegStreamclip:

http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html

which is free, but you must also have the Apple mpeg2 plugin :

http://store.apple.com/us/product/D2187Z/A/quicktime-mpeg-2-playback-component-f or-mac-os-x

(unless you are running Lion in which case see below))

which is a mere $20.

Another possibility is to use DVDxDV:

http://www.dvdxdv.com/NewFolderLookSite/Products/DVDxDV.overview.htm

which costs $25.

For the benefit of others who may read this thread:

Obviously the foregoing only applies to DVDs you have made yourself, or other home-made DVDs that have been given to you. It will NOT work on copy-protected commercial DVDs, which in any case would be illegal.

And from the TOU of these forums:

Keep within the Law

1. No material may be submitted that is intended to promote or commit an illegal act.
2. Do not submit software or descriptions of processes that break or otherwise ‘work around’ digital rights management software or hardware. This includes conversations about ‘ripping’ DVDs or working around FairPlay software used on the iTunes Store.

If you are running Lion or later:

From the MPEG Streamclip homepage

The installer of the MPEG-2 Playback Component may refuse to install the component in Lion. Apple states the component is unnecessary in Lion onwards, however MPEG Streamclip still needs it. See this:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3381

To install the component in Lion, please download MPEG Streamclip 1.9.3b7 beta above; inside the disk image you will find the Utility MPEG2 Component Lion: use it to install the MPEG-2 Playback Component in Lion. The original installer's disk image (QuickTimeMPEG2.dmg) is required.

The current versions of MPEG Streamclip cannot take advantage of the built-in MPEG-2 functionality of Lion. For MPEG-2 files you still need to install the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component, which is not preinstalled in Lion. (The same applies to Mountain Lion and Mavericks even though they have it preinstalled.) You don't have to install QuickTime 7.

Help!

I am OS 10.9.2

I downloaded MPEG Streamclip 1.9.3b8 but still get an error message that I need the MPEG 2 Playback Component which I bought and yet it cannot be installed in the 10.9.2 I am running

From the disc image I copied the Utility MPEG2 Component M.Lion.app to my applications folder.

But how do you "use it" to install the MPEG-2 Playback Component? What is the procedure?

"To install the component in Lion, please download MPEG Streamclip 1.9.3b7 beta above; inside the disk image you will find the Utility MPEG2 Component Lion: use it to install the MPEG-2 Playback Component in Lion. The original installer's disk image (QuickTimeMPEG2.dmg) is required."

Days so far trying to convert a DVD to Quicktime for FCP editing. Any more direct way?