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Operating Systems => macOS => Topic started by: rtgwbmsr on 19 April 2003, 10:30

Title: Questions About DVDs
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 19 April 2003, 10:30: I don't have a DVD drive in my iBook unfortunately. I do have one in my desktop though.

Can I make a disk image of some sort, and then play the movie from my hard drive? Is there some variation of this that is possible?

Thanks Guys
-Dustin
Title: Questions About DVDs
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 20 April 2003, 08:52: *Bump*
Title: Questions About DVDs
Post by: psyjax on 20 April 2003, 12:50: quote:
Originally posted by The Muffin Man:
*Bump*

NO.... Not unless you rip a divix, which essentially makes the movie an MPEG. But that could take over 8 hours! And the software to do it in is buggy and complex. You would also need a CD burner.
Title: Questions About DVDs
Post by: Pantso on 20 April 2003, 15:46: psyjax is right Muffin Man. There is no way to do it, unless you convert the dvd to mpeg-4 (divx), which as psyjax also wrote could take a serious amount of time. :rolleyes:

PS. Sorry for not noticing your question earlier.
Title: Questions About DVDs
Post by: flap on 20 April 2003, 17:08: I don't see why you couldn't just rip an image of the entire disk (with dd) and then play that.
Title: Questions About DVDs
Post by: trc3 on 20 April 2003, 18:23: You could just copy the .vob files and play them with vlc. I've done it a bunch of times, its not the best but it works.
Title: Questions About DVDs
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 21 April 2003, 01:11: How would I

A) Rip it to DiVX (What software would I need?)

B) Get the VOC file? Is that just on the DVD somewhere?
Title: Questions About DVDs
Post by: KernelPanic on 21 April 2003, 02:16: quote:
Originally posted by The Muffin Man:
How would I

A) Rip it to DiVX (What software would I need?)

B) Get the VOC file? Is that just on the DVD somewhere?

The vob's are just under the dvd filesystem. In the video_ts directory.
You should be able to play them as long as you have libdvdcss
Title: Questions About DVDs
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 21 April 2003, 04:57: quote:
Originally posted by Tux:

The vob's are just under the dvd filesystem. In the video_ts directory.
You should be able to play them as long as you have libdvdcss

There are seven large (>1 GB) VOB files on my Attack of the clones disk. Do I need all of them?!

Edit:
Fuck it. I got a program to convert the files to AVI. It says about 3 hours for a 142 minute movie. Not bad...thanks for all of the info.

[ April 20, 2003: Message edited by: The Muffin Man ]
Title: Questions About DVDs
Post by: psyjax on 21 April 2003, 07:01: Whats the prog, and do you got a link :D ?