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Where can i find a free dvd shrink?

How do I copy a DVD movie to DVD-R on a Mac?

  • MacFilter: Mac DVD copying on the cheap free? I'm a Mac user now. Hooray! I want to be able to backup DVDs that I own. (So this is legal, see?) On Windows, I'd use DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink. The first gets rid of the copy protection, the second squeezes the DVD image down to 4.3GB, the size of a blank DVD. It's a painless process, and it's free. My goal is to play a copied DVD in ANY player I run across, not just some fancy smancy iPod or XBOX or whatever. On Mac, I've found MacTheRipper (free) for stripping the copy protection. If the resulting DVD is small enough, I can burn it to a DVD with Burn (free). It plays on any player, and makes me happy. However, if the DVD is greater than 4.3 GB, I've been unable to find any FREE DVDShink equivilant software for the Mac. Does such an animal exist? I keep seeing Handbrake appear in discussion threads, but Handbrake doesn't handle VOBs and VIDEO_TS folders and the like. Thoughts? Or have Apple fanboys been lying to me all this time?

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    MacTheRipper + http://www.dvd2one.com/?loc=download = there you go!

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DVD2oneX isn't free. (And at 40 euro and current exchange rates, it isn't even cheap.) (It's also worth noting that if you're in the US, at least, it doesn't matter that you own the DVDs and are backing them up - bypassing copy protection is illegal, period.)

Tomorrowful

If free is more important than easy, you want http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-vcd-dvd.html. It takes some fiddling around to get it right, though. There's also a port of dvdauthor in macports if you're inclined to try that.

majick

Perhaps not quite the solution you were looking for, but you might consider running those (free) Windows applications within Apple Boot Camp, Vmware Fusion or Parallels Desktop. You might have to buy a Windows license, but having both operating systems is much more flexible than the one.

Blazecock Pileon

I've never seen 'shrink' software for the Mac that's free. I just end up using my PC. Thats the main downside to being a Mac user, a lot of the free software that is available on PC costs money.

mphuie

I use Popcorn and MacTheRipper. Popcorn isn't free, but it's almost flawless, and lets you only burn the main feature and whatever sound/subs you want, so that usually you don't even need to downsample the image. Worth the $35 that it cost me.

luriete

I keep seeing Handbrake appear in discussion threads, but Handbrake doesn't handle VOBs and VIDEO_TS folders and the like. Oh, it handles them fine -- but it's not what you want because it doesn't output DVD format. Seconding mencoder -- for reading DVDs and outputting a lower bitrate, DVD-formatted copy of the main feature, for free, on a Mac, it can't be beat. If you would pony up $$, the best choice is decrypting with AnyDVD in a virtualized Windows set-up and then using DVD2OneX. As far as DVD decryption in OS X, remember that the freely-available copies of MTR are old and decrepit and fail on most modern DVDs. You have to pay for the so-called "betas" in a pretty sketchy manner ("Oh no, it's not commercial, you're just donating...in exchange for a license. But it's not a license fee. It's just a donation."). You might want to try out FairMount, which is free and open source (uses VLC's libraries for decryption).

jbrjake

Some good info on a http://lifehacker.com/380702/five-best-dvd-ripping-tools today, not all Mac but some solutions and honorable mentions too.

fenriq

What's the problem with using the Disk Utility to make a disk image and then burn the image onto a blank? I haven't had any problems with that, though I've only played a burnt dvd on another computer.

princelyfox

You may want to check out http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/. Not free but a really GREAT video conversion prog

ShawnString

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