MAC DVD BURN/RIP PROBLEMS + AVI QUESTIONS + Playstaion 2 ??

[sbklyn]

I have noticed most DVD's are over 4.3 gigs in length..can anyone explain to me an easy way to rip 6-7 gigs of DVD to a DVD-R....Or are Us Macintosh people just basically !@#$ed ?....Question 2..If I download a movie in AVI format it will not play with quicktime....I try to convert it to MPEG2 and it still doesn't work...has anyone had any luck downloading and burning movies off the net THAT OWNS A MAC ? and if so how?....Question.. 3 A LITTLE OFF TOPIC...Has anyone that owns a Mac successfully "backed up" a Playstaion 2 game on DVD-R over 1 gig ?...and if so how?....I DO HAVE THE LATEST MOD CHIP....Most information (and I've searched for three days now) for the Macintosh world is outdated..any help would be greatly appreciated !![/b]

[jchansen]

Having a Mac has nothing to do with it; consumer DVD-Rs are 4.3 GB. That is because you generally can't buy double-sided or dual-layer discs. Certainly no consumer burner can write to dual-layer DVD-Rs. Most commercial DVDs are bigger so that the picture can look better, and if you change the bitrate to copy it then you will lose quality. If you don't like it buy the DVD.

If you have all the latest quicktime codecs, most AVI movies should play. But remember that AVI is not really a format, it's just a container. Look at the info window and see what format the video is in. Try updating your quicktime software. If you buy the apple MPEG-2 plugin, then you can encode your AVI once you can play it. Otherwise, encode it with iDVD if you have that.

[Macnewbie]

The reason your avi file won't play is most likly because it was encoded with the Divx codec (most pirated movies are divx). goto divx.com and download the divx package for mac. It contains an app called Divx Validator that will process the avi file and make it playable in QuickTime.

[Thwiipp]

Hi as for the playstation 2 question, i dont know what Mac DVD burning apps there are, but on a PC what is typically used to backup PS2 games is Prassi Primo DVD, you make an image and then burn to DVD-R, so if any of your software can make an image than try that, ill look more into it as i do not own a Mac but use one at my job. One question the modchip you have i assume its the Magic 2 chip, how much did you pay to get it installed and where did you go?

[strpyw]

i use fair use to rip the dvd, then launch vpc to run ifoedit, to split the dvd into 2 dvd then burn.