idisk and copying DVD's

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idisk and copying DVD's

Folks, what is the best way to make copies of DVD's? I've got one DVD here that I know is only 76 mins long and when I create an image (takes forever) and then try to burn this image to a blank DVD (4.7 G, good for 2 hrs), the computer tells me there is not enouph space on the DVD. Plus, I used the compress option when creating the image.

What is going on here and is there a better way to copy DVDs?

Intrepid007

imac, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on May 30, 2007 8:43 AM

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Answer 1

May 30, 2007 9:32 AM in response to Intrepid 007

When using "New Image" from the DVD drive I set "Image Format" to "DVD/CD master". Compression will not make it much smaller because the data on a video DVD is already compressed.

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Answer 2

May 30, 2007 10:31 AM in response to Intrepid 007

I use mac the ripper to rip any dvd's then roxio popcorn to burn them.

Hope this helps

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Answer 3

Jul 11, 2007 11:50 AM in response to lostinvideo

I've copied the entire contents of a dvd to my hard drive and now have a Video TS folder and a blank Audio TS folder. I just want to burn new disks to have physical copies of the original, which is now out of my hands. Roxio Popcorn is the answer?

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Answer 4

Jul 11, 2007 9:19 PM in response to Kevin Simons

Use DVD Imager
<http://lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/applescript/dvdimager.html>
to make a disk image file from the VIDEO_TS folder, then burn the file with Disk Utility.

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