totally lost.

[xdementia]

Hi, I'm both a windows user and Mac user however, I just got a powerbook G4 with a superdrive and I have no idea how to burn DVDs to be played in a DVD player. I tried ripping one as a .dmg and it came out to be 6.7 MB, way too big to burn strait onto my 4.7 DVD-Rs I got at Best Buy. I'm assuming they don't sell DVD-Rs with a higher capacity then that, or else I could just burn .dmg and wouldn't have a problem. So I'm at the point where I understand I need to just rip the main movie (not the menus and stuff) and burn that to a DVD, however, I don't know what file extension it should have, I don't know how to rip the files out of a .dmg file and I heard somewhere that Disk Copy only creates DVD/CD-Rs that can ONLY be read by macs. Do I have to get Toast to burn a DVD-player friendly DVD? Thanks.

[mtc]

Try following the guides on www.doom9.org (http://www.doom9.org)

Guides like The DVD Shrink Guide (http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvdshrink-main.htm) should be what you need.

[supplier]

hi,
just week ago i was in total lost myself. after reading tons of threads most helful were : http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/pipexdsl/o/aovf74/backup/
and http://www.mrbass.org/

best regards

[oddyseus]

Allthough a mac user too, I don't practice in macs for dvd backup due to the lack of programs capable of doing so. However I know that Platinum Toast is capable of burning a standalone compatible dvd-r. Maybe this dmg image file can be read from Toast, although way toobig to be burnt in a dvd-r without extra shrinking.

[xdementia]

Ok, finally getting somewhere, your links were really helpful! Now at least I know what a .VOB is! Ok, my only DVD-R burner is on my mac, however I could rip the DVDs on my windows machine and send it over the network to my mac, but would Disc Copy be able to burn (for instance an IO image) so it is compatible with most DVD players? Thanks.

[killingspree]

well i do not know if your mac burning program supports win iso files. (cd /dvd images) but if you correctly create an image file there should be no problem playing it...

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