Mac dvd player

[Regal]

I like to know what out there is a great MAC dvd player??

I have only the one that came w/ my Mini. Is there anything else out there that is better then this one??? Thanks

[WiseWeasel]

What's wrong with that one? What features are you looking for?

[Regal]

Something different. I like to experiment. I mean if the one I got is the best Mac has to offer. let it be.

[galactica]

You have the best to offer.

Alternatives are.........
VLC and MplayerOSX but you wont find anything in them that apple dvd player cant do. [well with dvd playback that is ]

Hows the mini for heat?
Say when processing a video or plaiying a video game. Im considering getting one and intrested in your opinion of it. PM me please as i dont want to derail this topic to mini topics

[WiseWeasel]

There's also Interactual Player, but it's a piece of crap. I'd say to stick with Apple DVD Player...

[Regal]

Galactica,

No heat, no noise. I have yet to hear to fan even click on. Here is what I wrote at another forum:

I feel backing up dvds on a mac is a slow process and can take over 1.3 hours.

This is a 3-step process using: Mac The Ripper, DvD2oneX and Toast (or other burning tool)


Here is the time frame on a 7.22 gig movie:

Mac the Ripper - Rips full movie at 25 minutes into HD folder 7.22 gigs

DvD2OneX - Copies, compress FULL 7.22 movie into another folder in 35 minutes at Consistand MODE.

Toast (Burner) - Depending what speed disk you use, lets just say 4x dvdR about 14 minutes.

Grand total time wasted: 1 hr and 14 minutes.

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While on a PC:

using shrink: about 25 minutes
Nero to Burn: 15 minutes

Total time wasted: 40 minutes.
(My pc is a 1ghz Duron w/ 20 gig hd LAPTOP by Compaq).

Well you choose?

I will do dvd video backup on my PC. As for my mac I will be doing Video editing.

Untill Mac comes out w/ something like Shrink from the PC. PC is my hand of choice to do my dvd backups. Hurry some one make a SHRINK for Mac's

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and another one off another forum:

ery quite. Hvae yet hear the fan spin on. While playing a dvd is really really quite. My mini is mistaken for my son's lunchbox that he almost ate the Apple in it . No but really it is really small. Amazes me how Apple/Mac came along. I have not mess w/ Mac's since my Junior year in High School. The Mac OS is going to take some time to getting used to. Over-all I am really impressed. I upped mine to the 1.42ghz w/ 80gig HD. I have yet to determin if the hard-drive is a 7200rpm or not. Some people at the mac forums says its a 4400, but I think it's not. I give the mac mini a **** out of *****

Nothing is perfect! Now I have the best of both worlds for Mac and PC.
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So yea. I really like it

[radman_6]

Hey, have you tried FastDVD Copy?

It copy, shrink and burn in about 40 minutes or less. You can edit the menus (for original DVDs) before copying. It cost about $99.



I have an external burner (Pioneer DVR-108) that I use to backup my DVD collections.


iMac 17" Flatscreen SuperDrive(2x)
800MHz PowerPC G4
768MB SDRAM
80G HD
Mac OS 10.3.7 8)

[AntnyMD]

There's also Interactual Player, but it's a piece of crap. I'd say to stick with Apple DVD Player...

As far as I can tell, the InterActual player letterboxes everything. It doesnt respond properly to anamorphic content.

[WiseWeasel]

Ack, my eyes, my beautiful eyes!!!! Seriously, I think the authors of that app smoked a bit too much of MTV's XTREME crack or something, either that or they outsourced their interface development to some colorblind baboons on acid. Fast DVD Copy has gotten a very bad reputation for not working on many titles, and having audio sync and quality issues on others. For that price, you'd be much better off getting Popcorn instead, or even splurging for DVD2OneX and Toast Titanium. For an idea of what others have to say about Fast DVD Copy, look here.

Oh, and Re: Regal, My Pioneer 107D (RPC1 firmware) rips a dual-layered disc in about 15 minutes or less, DVD2OneX in Disc Copy mode, variable rate, takes about 15-20 minutes on my 2x2GHz G5, and burning takes 5 minutes at 8x speed, for a grand total of up to 40 minutes. Also, shrink doesn't rip some dvds properly, so you have to use a separate ripper, increasing the total time. Ripping speed is completely drive-dependent. DVD2OneX is CPU and HD bound (mostly CPU), and burning is, of course, drive-dependent as well.

[Edit] From the border of the window in the background, I guess the default interface doesn't really look like that, but you're using a butt-ugly theme instead... /me sighs with relief... [/Edit]