What DVD-Rs to use

[CyrusSage]

Hey there, I am very new to the world of Mac's and even newer to the one of DVD ripping and burning. I have recently purchased a MacBook, and have ripped a couple movies off of it using Mac the Ripper. However from there I have been having much difficulty doing this stuff. I am suspecting however that it might be the DVD's i am using. The ones I have now are Sony DVD-R's with 120 min of space and 4.7 GB/Go. It says it is compatible with 1x-8x DVD-R writers. If this is true, then what disks should I be using?

Also, a friend transferred some DivX movies onto my computer and I have not been able to find a program that would allow me to convert them into a DVD format and then burn them on disks. If anyone could be of assistance on either topic I would be very grateful. Thank you

~CS

[Mark V]

If you are using Mac The Ripper I suggest posting at this site for all your Mac The Ripper questions.

www.ripdifferent.com

[terryj]

Hey there, I am very new to the world of Mac's and even newer to the one of DVD ripping and burning. I have recently purchased a MacBook, and have ripped a couple movies off of it using Mac the Ripper. However from there I have been having much difficulty doing this stuff. I am suspecting however that it might be the DVD's i am using. The ones I have now are Sony DVD-R's with 120 min of space and 4.7 GB/Go. It says it is compatible with 1x-8x DVD-R writers. If this is true, then what disks should I be using?

Sony Discs, using the DVD Media Code SONY08D1
are great discs. The best discs locally to be bought are Verbatim Data Life 1-8x or 1-16x DVD-R.
On the Web, Taiyo Uden are the top notch discs we reccommend.

More to the point, I suspect your internal DVD Drive, being a Matshita Brand Optical drive
is the culprit.

Also, a friend transferred some DivX movies onto my computer and I have not been able to find a program that would allow me to convert them into a DVD format and then burn them on disks. If anyone could be of assistance on either topic I would be very grateful. Thank you

~CS

To convert Divx files to DVD, the simplest way in two to three steps,
get a copy of Toast Titanium 7 or 8 for the Mac.
Just drag and Drop the DIVX Files into Toast, under the Video Tab,
set to DVD, insert blank media, click burn.

Can't get simpler than that.....

[albloom]

It's a bit hard to say where your problems lie. Apple's
Matshita superdrives suck toads, as do Sony DVD-R's in
my opinion. You don't say what you mean by "having much
difficulty doing this stuff." What version of MTR are you
using? What are you using to burn the DVD's?

Indeed Toast Titanium (version 7 or 8) is an easy and
protean tool. If the output of MTR is playable in DVD
Player (File menu/Open DVD Media, point to the VIDEO_TS
folder on your HD), Toast will generally give you good
compression (as needed) and burning with reliable media
like Taiyo Yuden.

That said, there is MTR and then there is MTR. If you're
using the free version 2.6.6, you'll find it can't deal
with the newer forms of copy protection. You might want
to go to RipDifferent.com, join the forums, and pop into
the MTR forum and see how to donate to the new Version 3
development effort to get a copy of the latest (beta 13e
now, and 14 coming Real Soon Now).

And then there's the new Sony/Disney copy protection that
imbeds zero length-or-duration "cells" at the front and
back of the movie. This defeats compression apps for some
reason. The easy way to deal with that is burning to Double
Layer discs (DVD+R DL, Verbatim is reputable). No compression.

[pixel zombie]

mpegs2works or ffmeg can convert divx to DVD compliant mpegs...