Mac format HD DVD, How can I rip?

[haymes]

Someone recently sent me a movie authored on a MAC that I can't play or rip. I looked at some of the files on Ifobuster and it seems like an authored dvd with EVO files rather than vobs. I used dvd decrypter to rip the IFO but I can't get anwhere from there. ISO magic says it can't read the iso either. Is there a way to rip this into mpegs or something that I can reauthor onto a dvd so I can watch it? Thanks in advance.

[Baldrick]

HD-DVD is not a mac format. It's HD DVD, see www.videohelp.com/hd .

Have you tried play the hd dvd/evo files using vlc media player or smplayer or kmplayer or windvd or powerdvd ? Or media player classic together with ffdshow.

If you want to convert the evo to dvd then try xvid4psp.

(If it's a commercial hd dvd you can rip/copy it using dvdfab hd decrypter or anydvd....but if it's home burned dvdr you should be able to just copy the files.)

[haymes]

Hi,

I can't seem to post a reply to your questions. Anyway, it is a home made dvd made on a mac from some footage the guy made on an hd camera. I can only read it with dvd decrypter in ISO mode only. Isobuster also reads it. Everything else you mentioned doesn't work. I called it MAC hd only because that is what the guy authored it on. Also, the guy said it only plays on his mac, nothing else. When you look at the files on isobuster, you see the entire structure for the dvd such as the evo files. However, I ripped an iso image to my hd using dvd decrypter and nothing can read the image including iso magic. DVD Fab also can't read the disc, or the iso image that was ripped. Would you like a screen shot of what isobuster sees?

[Baldrick]

Yep. Make a screenshot.

[jman98]

Post a list of all the directories and the files in them on the disk too. To the best of my knowledge HD DVD was never supported on Mac. Heck they don't even support BluRay at this time. I am finding it hard to believe that this is really and truly an HD DVD disc for that reason. The only programs I know of that are even capable of generating HD DVD output for authoring run only on Windows.

[videopoo]

DVD Studio Pro was authoring HD DVD a long time ago....still is in fact. Try Evo Demux to demux the streams.

[haymes]

Yes, but first you have to be able to rip to demus streams.

[haymes]

Isobuster screen shot

[MOVIEGEEK]

EVO files are HD DVD files and the disc's use UDF 2.5.If you are using XP then you need the UDF Reader .
AnyDVD will read the files but DVDDecrypter cannot.

[haymes]

dvd decrypter screen shot

[MOVIEGEEK]

In order to watch the video you need a HD DVD player and the latest WinDVD.

[yoda313]

Just to clairfy what moviegeek was saying you need the high def version of windvd. Also make sure it supports hd-dvd in particular. I know I got a bluray only version of Powerdvd that came with my bluray rom player. Whichever player you get be sure it specifically supports hd-dvd.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Yeah the latest version of PowerDVD no longer supports HD DVD and HD DVD players are hard to find.I would call the friend and ask if they could make a DVD.

[videopoo]

Yes, but first you have to be able to rip to demus streams.

No...there's no need to rip anything since there's no copy protection. Ripping simply means removing any DRM

[haymes]

OK, once you get the m2v and mpa files from IFO demux, how do you convert the video file to mpeg2?

[videopoo]

Since it HD resolutions you'll need to transcode it to an editable uncompressed format then reduce the size down to a 720x480 16x9 anamorphic sequence in an editor. From there you would need to encode MPEG 2 for DVD and stick it on disc.

[Baldrick]

You could just try AVStoDVD, FAVC, DVD Flick if you want a dvd.

You might have make to mux the video and audio streams to one file if you can't choose separate video and audio files in the tools above. Try tsmuxer.