Trying to use both a Mac and a Windozemachine

[witchthings]

my situation is thus: my computer at home is a 400Mhz G3 iMac and a firewire DVD burner

at work I have a 1.1Ghz Windoze machine which I can leave omn all night processing files...

1. I am looking for ways to rip my DVDs at home on my Mac, and then do my authoring or editing on the Windows machine, and then bring it back to my Mac to be burned.

2. I also have an EyeTV, so i would also like to be able to take the MPEGs to work and do what I need to in order to make DVDs.

Thanks

[AntnyMD]

I tried that once last year. Data transfer was sooo slow on my work computer (internet traffic, comp not directly connected to the net). The final straw was one day while I was at work, a surprise thunderstorm at home caused a power surge that fried the ethernet port on my iMac ... required a complete replacement of the logic board. Thank God for AppleCare.

[witchthings]

actually, I would be transferring the files back and forth via portable hard drive

[ZeroSix]

if you are ripping using your mac, i assume you are using 0Sex, correct?

If that is the case, all you would need is authoring software for your PC, like Encore, or any other DVD program. I would imagine that they have a way to save as a Disc image, so once you are all finished, just do that.

Transfer the disc image to your portable HDD and burn at home using toast.

Is this the answer you were looking for?

[CaseyComb]

What are your operating systems for both machines? This would help. I mean, really... if you can afford a $40 DVD-ROM then buy it put it in your PC and then when done authoring, transfer to the hard drive and burn on the MAC. I've noticed when trying to move .vob files from MAC to PC they end up as large text files that XP can't recognize. I don't know if it is an OSX or XP problem. I rip from PC, reauthor, then burn on my G4 since I don't have enough cash for a DVD-R for my PC. This has worked great so far. Another suggestion might be to use Virtual PC. Again until I know what your OS's are for both machines I don't think Im capable of answering this question correctly, I probably haven't.

[witchthings]

that is pretty much what I was asking, I just wasn't sure it it would work

does anyone know if a disc image created by a Windows program could just simply be burned on my Mac? I've never tried such a thing...

I haven't used 0Sex, I have used DVDBackup...

I haven't used any of the Windows programs yet, so i guess I will start experimenting...

[witchthings]

adding a DVD drive to my work computer isn't an option

Home: 10.2.6 (Jaguar)
Work: Windows 2000

[CaseyComb]

Ahhhhh...now things become clearer. If you are still running OS9 on your MAC, there is an older program called ...lemme think...DVDdecoder. If you look around the net you can still find it. I think which would produce elementary streams from a DVD. OSex will do elementary streams but it is a tad unreliable. I haven't done a disc image from a DVD and then transferred it but that may work.

[AntnyMD]

does anyone know if a disc image created by a Windows program could just simply be burned on my Mac? I've never tried such a thing...

To save yourself a potential headache with proprietary disc image formats on Windows (Nero comes to mind), have your PC authoring program write DVD folders (i.e., empty AUDIO_TS, and VIDEO_TS) then save those folders onto your portable hard drive. That way you can drag them into Toast and burn that.

[Cornucopia]

IIWY, I'd check out the MacWindows website. It's got lots of Mac<=>PC connection and integration info.

If both of your boxes support mass storage on firewire (IEEE1394), then it's alot easier. Just format the drive from the PC as FAT32 (more compatible on Macs than NTFS, but has 2GB file limitation--this may or may not be a problem depending on what you're transferring).
Or add MacDrive software to the PC and format as HFS/HFS+.
Make sure you name files <27 std characters and use the .*** extension on EVERYTHING, even on the Mac. Then your files will be recognizable on both boxes (barring resource fork problems).

BTW "27" is 31 char Mac limit - 4 char ".***" extension.

HTH,
Scott

[witchthings]

Thanks to all for all your help!

I am using an old Iomega Peerless drive (USB) to carry my files back and forth...

Right now I am tinkering with Vol 1. of The Prisoner which I ripped last night. It's a nice practice disk to work with...

I'll check back in when I'm done.