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Copy DVDs (on a Mac)

Influenced by the great love of Michiki Koshita to classic cinema, started reagalarnos DVDs of the best restorations of films from great directors like Hitchcock or Billy Wilder. Little by little, we were putting together films by other directors and other times, but always choosing between all those versions that offer possibilities "widescreen" or alternatively, the original format chosen by the director himself (as is the case of Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick). On rare occasions, only one possible format is present in the market, and usually not optimal. In that case, and only in that case, we acquired a copy in hopes that in future any other airline a better version.

As a general rule, do at least one copy of these films, and the originals are stored safely in our shelves in Lafayette. The "black box" where we store the non-original is then used over and over again, and has seen many miles as their owners. We have several methods for copying DVDs, and here present that I use on my PowerBook (with Mac OS X operating system, of course).

The first step is to download the DVD to your hard drive. It should download an "as-is" to control their Sizeand modify your content if you want to ignore parts of it or compressing it. But if your burner is new enough, you agree regióny phone records of any blank discs have a capacity large enough, you can create a iso image and burn directly to any of the procedures explained later. To create the iso image , you must use the dd utility of Unix, open a terminal and find the "device" where the operating system mounts the DVD player, using this command df :

>
df Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/ dev/disk0s3 156039264 89086792 66440472 57% /
devfs 180 180 0 100% / dev
fdesc 2 2 0 100% / dev
1024 1024 0100% /.
vol automount-nsl [391] 0 0 0 100% / Network automount-fstab
[394] 0 0 0 100% / automount / Servers automount-static
[394 ] 0 0 0 100% / automount / static
/ dev/disk1 16,063,052 16,063,052 0 100% / Volumes / Thesis

The film is in / dev/disk1 . We begin by "removing the device, and then proceed to copy the corresponding iso image , and finally remount the device with DiskTool order in the drive:

> DiskTool-u disk1 disk1 device
unmounted Will Be ...
*** Notifications Complete for type 1
*** Responding yes to unmount - disk1 ***
Disk Unmounted ('disk1')
> dd if = / dev/disk1 of = NombreDeLaPeli.iso

618 152 +0 records in 618152 +0 records out 316493824 bytes transferred is
in 139.126707 secs (2274860 bytes / sec)
> DiskTool-r
Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
> DiskTool-m disk1
disk1 device will Attempt to Be mounted ...
*** Disk Appeared ('disk1', mountpoint ='', fstype = 'udf' volname = 'thesis')
Completed Disk Mounting
> eject
"disk1" unmounted .
"disk1" ejected.

But not everyone has the latest technology available, not everyone is interested in copying the whole DVD. It is then recommended to use a software "freeware" or DVDBackup MacTheRipper to copy DVD content to your hard drive and capable of handling. Either of these two programs perform this operation no matter the region of it, either wholly, or taking parts selected by the user (for example, one can & # 237; to choose just the main movie taken of extras, disregarding the original language dubbing, subtitles in one language, and sound as s & # 243; as one of the systems offered). Upon completion of this step (in espanglis call "rip"), somewhere in the hard disk will be a folder, call it "TesisAmenabar"-within which there must be at least a subfolder called "VIDEO_TS", which contain all the files. BUP. IFO and. VOB.

Unfortunately, the native program iDVD can not burn this material to DVD, but instead, we have two main methods: one commercial and one freeware:

The method , all trade goes through using the program Roxio Popcorn that lets you compress and burn any DVD, regardless of their size. This program is by far the best of its kind I have tasted, not to mention how easy that is its use and the excellent quality of the copies produced. There's really no sense that you use this program so expensive if your blank DVDs are the appropriate size and compression is not required.

The method using only freeware is restricted to the ripped folder above to have a capacity not exceeding the maximum of your hard virgin . In that case, proceed according to the following two steps:

1. Creating iso image of the folder : To do this, is the perfect tool mkisofs, which is part cdrtools package. If not, you have to download it via your package in fink (of course, I'll assume you have fink installed on your Mac, otherwise, stop by the PA ; sourceforge project page, and go install it: fink.sourceforge.net .)
   To install the cdrtools , open a terminal and enter the order

   > fink install cdrtools

   To convert the old folder to iso file , enter the following command in terminal:

   > mkisofs-dvd-video-o / Users / Francisco / Desktop / tesis.iso / Users / Francisco / Desktop / TesisAmenabar /

   takes a long time, and meanwhile, the console will see lines of information as throughout the following process: 0.22%

   done, Estimated finish Sun
November 7 18:36:26 2005 0.44% done, Estimated finish Sun
November 7 18:36:29 2005 0.66% done, Estimated finish Sun November 7
18:39:02 2005 0.88% done, Estimated finish Sun
November 7 18:38:23 2005 1.09% done, Estimated finish Sun
November 7 18:39:32 2005 1.31% done, Estimated finish Sun November 7, 1918: 2005 44:07
1.53% done, Estimated finish Sun November 7 18:41:56 2005 1.75%
done, Estimated finish Sun November 7 18:49:50 2005
...
99.97% done, Estimated finish Sun
November 7 18:24:01 2005 Total translation table size: 0
Rockridge acodeributes Total bytes: 0 Total
directory bytes: 2048 Path table
size (bytes): 26 Max brk space
Used 0 2285776 extents
wricodeen (4464 Mb)

   If you wish, you can make a further check to make sure the iso file is corrupt ... I think appropriate command here is isoinfo .
2. Burn the iso file to DVD : Open "Disk Utility" (Which is a native Mac OS X), and you'll see the iso file newly created appears in the tray on the left. Click on it and choose "Burn" in the appropriate menu, puts the DVD into the burner and wait ...

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