Questions About DVDs

[rtgwbmsr]

I don't have a DVD drive in my iBook unfortunately. I do have one in my desktop though.

Can I make a disk image of some sort, and then play the movie from my hard drive? Is there some variation of this that is possible?

Thanks Guys
-Dustin

[rtgwbmsr]

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[psyjax]

quote:Originally posted by The Muffin Man:
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NO.... Not unless you rip a divix, which essentially makes the movie an MPEG. But that could take over 8 hours! And the software to do it in is buggy and complex. You would also need a CD burner.

[Pantso]

psyjax is right Muffin Man. There is no way to do it, unless you convert the dvd to mpeg-4 (divx), which as psyjax also wrote could take a serious amount of time.   :rolleyes:  

PS. Sorry for not noticing your question earlier.

[flap]

I don't see why you couldn't just rip an image of the entire disk (with dd) and then play that.

[trc3]

You could just copy the .vob files and play them with vlc. I've done it a bunch of times, its not the best but it works.

[rtgwbmsr]

How would I

A) Rip it to DiVX (What software would I need?)

B) Get the VOC file? Is that just on the DVD somewhere?

[KernelPanic]

quote:Originally posted by The Muffin Man:
How would I

A) Rip it to DiVX (What software would I need?)

B) Get the VOC file? Is that just on the DVD somewhere?

The vob's are just under the dvd filesystem. In the video_ts directory.
You should be able to play them as long as you have libdvdcss

[rtgwbmsr]

quote:Originally posted by Tux:


The vob's are just under the dvd filesystem. In the video_ts directory.
You should be able to play them as long as you have libdvdcss

There are seven large (>1 GB) VOB files on my Attack of the clones disk. Do I need all of them?!

Edit:
Fuck it. I got a program to convert the files to AVI. It says about 3 hours for a 142 minute movie. Not bad...thanks for all of the info.

[ April 20, 2003: Message edited by: The Muffin Man ]

[psyjax]

Whats the prog, and do you got a link   ?