How to convert a DVD to quicktime.

Posted 1 year, 3 months ago at 3:52 pm. 4 comments

Here’s how to copy a DVD to your harddrive and convert it to a movie that will play on your iphone, ipod or in quicktime on your computer.  Continue Reading…

How to rip a DVD

Posted 1 year, 3 months ago at 6:44 pm. 3 comments

Mac the ripper is a little program that allows you to copy a DVD to your computer, and at the same time it removes the copy protection. (This is called ‘ripping’ a DVD) Continue Reading…

How to make a Video CD

Posted 1 year, 10 months ago at 9:43 pm. 0 comments


I have a lot of .mov files. Each file is about 1 hour of movie footage but compressed to only 200-300MB. When I import them into iMovie it tries to convert them to dv files. Do you know a way to burn a collection of .mov files to a dvd so that they can be read with a normal dvd player?

Good question, let me explain a little bit about what you can and can’t do with CDs and DVDs.
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How to create a disk image of a DVD or CD

Posted 2 years, 1 month ago at 3:33 pm. 0 comments

This is a little bit advanced, but useful.

1. Insert the DVD/CD into your drive.

2. Run the TERMINAL application (In your Appplications Utilities Folder)

You will get a little window with a prompt something this: Macintosh:~ wayne$
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How to copy a DVD.

Posted 2 years, 1 month ago at 2:55 pm. 0 comments

Someone asked me: “do you have any advice on how to copy a DVD onto another DVD.”

It’s quite easy.
You use apple’s built in disk utility (in your utilities folder) to make a disk image of the dvd (select the DVD then select ‘new image’), it copies it exactly. The default options of compressed and none are fine.

You then use disk utility to burn the disk image you have just created back to a dvd. Select the image and choose ‘burn.’

It must be your own dvd, not a commercial one to to this.

This works with data DVD’s as well as movie DVD’s.

Wayne

How to backup a DVD

Posted 3 years, 2 months ago at 4:56 pm. 16 comments

If you’ve tried watching DVD’s on your laptop (eg on a plane or in the car) you’ll notice the batteries wear down pretty quickly. Here’s how to copy your DVD onto your laptop, which you can do at home, so when you take your laptop on the road you don’t need to take the original disk, and the batteries on your laptop last longer. Continue Reading…

How to skip straight to the feature on a DVD

Posted 3 years, 3 months ago at 4:41 pm. 1 comment

When you’re watching a DVD do you get annoyed that there are those compulsory credits at the start, and copyright warnings, and you can’t skip them. Well, you can skip them with this simple program that modifies your apple DVD player so that it ignores the directions on the DVD about which bits are compulsory viewing. Continue Reading…

How to install Front Row

Posted 3 years, 3 months ago at 5:39 am. 1 comment

I just installed Front Row on my non-front-row mac and it works with my ATI Remote Wonder USB Remote Control. Very nice.

Here’s how I think I got it working, I tried a few things, this is what I think did it: Continue Reading…