Copying contents of already converted dvd

[supermedic]

I have a copy of a dvd which plays direct on any dvd player. When I tried to copy the VIDEO_TS folder to a new blank dvd (properly renamed) the dvd burned but a problem came up. When I insert the new burned disc into the dvd player the player says the disc cannot be played. When inserted into my mac the dvd player comes up and a 1/2 black screen pops up but doesnt play the movie. At this point if i hit play the error code "not permitted" comes up. However if i go into the file menu and open folder the movie starts playing and plays fine.

I guess i did something wrong along the lines of burning. I am not sure what I would have done wrong unless i need a third party software like toast to exactly duplicate the disc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. oh ya i am using a G4 wth OSX jaguar

supermedic

[qshartle]

it burned as a data dvd. or you coppied encrypted material, meaning you didnt get everything. Rip it the MTR. If you have toast select DVD then add the VIDEOTS and AUDIOTS folders then burn. Otherwise use different burning software.

Q

[supermedic]

Rip it the MTR.

I am new to this so please bear with me. First of all I dont have Toast. I take it I will need toast in order to burn the dvds in their entirety including encrypted file? Second there was no Audio TS files but still played ok when I went into the mac dvd player and chose - file-open folder- video_ts.

Correct me if I am wrong but the only way to copy these dvd's correctly and burn them correctly is if I purchase Toast. Mac does not have anything that can do the burn out of the box?

Lastly does anyone know where I can get a demo version of toast to make sure it works for me properly?

Thanks in advance for all your help. As a new user I found everyone on here to be very curtious and helpful. Keep up the good work and hopefully one day I will be able to help someone.

supermedic

[mhar4]

You can use one of the rippers, MTR or 0SeX, to rip a disk image instead of a VOB or elementary streams. Then use Disk Utility as an alternative to Toast to burn the image and it should work fine.

[cnelson87]

Apple Disc Utility should be able to make an exact disc image of the DVD. I use Toast, but it's my understanding that you can burn the disc image directly from the Finder or Disc Utility. As long as it was previously decrypted and shrunk, it should play just fine.

[supermedic]

Can anyone walk someone new throught the process of using dis copy to acheive the solution above. Like I said i have a dvd already ripped so it works correctly in my entertaiment dvd player. I would like a step by step explanation if possible of how to use disc copy to acheive an exact duplicate of the original ripped dvd i have and have it play on my home dvd player.

Somewhere along the line of disc images and burning disc images i got lost so if anyone can list or walk me through from begining to end using disc copy i would greatly appreciate it.

thanks
supermedic

[FCPguy]

supermedic- you may be getting your terminology mixed up - giving even more confused responses.
First off- have you read Galactica's beginner area? If not- start there.
So here's the way to do this-
first- if you truly have a ripped copy, there would be no encryption to burn... ripping something is getting the encryptionless version on your computer (here). So use MTR to do this. Then you take your version (if it's too big- you compress it, I like DVD2oneX for this, but there are others). Lastly you burn in a program like Toast using UOB. If you don't have toast (which you don't) you can use other methods (do a search in the forum before asking how.... trust me it's there.) I recommend you buy Toast though.. it will become your best friend. Peace and good luck-

[supermedic]

thanks FCP guy you are absolutely right. I will go and buy toast it seems to be the answer anyway I appreciate everyones efforts and thank all of you again. i will be back to let you know once i have made my first good copy.

Your patience is apprciated
supermedic

[Frobozz]

Since you don't have Toast you can make your video DVD using DVD Imager and Disk Utility. Here is the link to DVD Imager:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/vt3/19456

[decay]

if it's a copy of a DVD, then it's no longer encrypted and you should be able to copy it using Disk Copy (comes with the OS).

dk

[Frobozz]

The trouble is that Disk Copy and Disk Utility do not burn in UDF format unless they are burning a UDF-formatted disk image. That's what Disk Imager does, so the two work together.

[supermedic]

thanks Frobozz that was the ticket, once i used disc imager and then burnt the disc image using disc copy (OSX) I was able to get the dvd to play properly and now can burn set-top compliant copies for my back ups. Thanks so so so much for all your help.

Now i am off to experiment with mactheripper to see if I can get video_ts extractions to work and burn using this new method.

Thanks again everyone for all your help and posts.....this place is great!

supermedic