(I wish Google supplied a 'preview' option; I don't know if the HTML will work...)
I'm assuming you use Mac OS X, and at least Jaguar or Panther. If you
haven't upgraded yet, I highly suggest it; it's much more reliable
than the old Mac OS 9.
Copying from a DVD movie is a three step process.
1) Finding Track and Chapter information about the DVD.
2) Copying the movie from the DVD.
3) Encoding the DVD into a smaller format.
Anyway... you will need the following software:
* <b>DVD Player</b> - Included with Mac OS X.
* <b>QuickTime 6</b> - Included with Mac OS X.
* <b>OSEx</b> - A free DVD extracting tool, available <a
href="http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/9830">here</a>.
* <b>OpenShiiva</a> - A free MPEG-4 video encoder, avalable <a
href="http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11973">here</a>.
You will also need up to 5 Gigabyte of hard disk space free.
<b>How to copy a DVD with a Mac:</b>
<b>Step 1:</b>
<i>Finding Track and Chapter information with DVD Player</i>
Put the DVD into your Mac, and open DVD Player. Begin playing the part
of the DVD you wish to copy.
Now, in the MenuBar at the top of the screen, click "Window", then
"Show Info". A black window will appear, listing information about the
playing movie.
There are two vital pieces of information we need here: Title, and
Chapter. First, write down the Title number and the current Chapter
number.
If you wish to copy more than just a small part of a movie, you will
need to skip ahead and see what other chapter numbers you need. Be
sure to write down these all these numbers.
With that done, you will now need to quit DVD Player.
<b>Step 2:</b>
<i>Copying the movie from your DVD with 0SEx</i>
Open 0SEx. If it does not open, be sure you have quit DVD Player; they
can't both be running at once.
In the 0SEx window, press the "Ti" button, and select the "Title" that
matches the number written down earlier.
Now press the "Ch" button, and select each of the chapter numbers that
were written down earlier. If you wish to copy the entire movie (not
just a small part), you can leave them all checked.
You can now hit the "Begin" button. It will prompt you for a space to
save the copied DVD movie - be sure to choose a hard disk with a lot
of free space.
0SEx will begin to copy the video, which can take anywhere between a
minute to half an hour, depending on how long the movie is. Once it is
completed the blue bar will stop moving.
You should now quit 0SEx.
<b>Step 3:</b>
<i>Encoding your DVD with OpenShiiva</i>
Open OpenShiiva.
Press the "Set input file" button. Open the file that you saved with
0SEx in the previous step.
Press the "Set output button". You'll need to type a filename of your
choice. Once again, be sure to choose a hard disk with a lot of free
space.
Click the "Crop & Scale" tab. Set the left, right, top, and bottom
crop settings so they remove all the black areas.
In the "Video" tab, set the Quantiser to 4. (Or lower for better
quality and a bigger file, or higher for worse quality but a smaller
file.)
In the "Audio" tab, be sure to check "Encode audio".
Then in the "Processing" tab, hit Go!
This will take a long time (can take many hours, depending on the
length of the movie and the speed of your Mac). Once it's completed,
it'll launch QuickTime and play your new, encoded movie.
Step 4:
<i>Cleaning up</i>
You can safely delete the directory 0SEX created while copying the CD;
you won't need it anymore.
This movie that OpenShiiva made is a .mp4 file (which will be located
wherever you set OpenShiiva to output) can play on any PC or Mac with
QuickTime 6 installed. It can (if it's not an entire movie, and bigger
than 700MB) also be burnt to CD, so it doesn't take up hard disk
space.
Hope this is helpful! Any questions, e-mail me: xenex<i>@</i>opinonstick.com |
