Mac OS X: DVD Backup Guide

Contributed by Jimmy Selix  
Tagged: Apple Mac  

well, this is a recipe from my archive, backing up DVDs you own on a mac running OS X. This recipe does require a commercial program, Toast Titanium (well worth the money imo!).

Just because you own a mac doesn’t mean you can’t make backups of your dvd movies. I prefer to take these w/me on trips vs my original dvds. Here is my quickie recipes to backing up DVDs w/MacTheRipper and Toast 7 Titanium.

Step 1. Install MacTheRipper and Toast. (get mactheripper here: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22715, [i]toast is a commercial application/i])

Step 2: Setup a temp folder to rip to (a good setup = easy backups)

Step 3: Put in Movie, then launch MacTheRipper. MacTheRipper is a Mac equivalent of DVD Decrypter for the PC.

File > Save To to change to our temp folder we setup. Then choose your mode.

Full Movie w/menus: choose to do a Disc mode:
or
Movie Only no menus: choose Mode > Title Set Extraction then choose the title (the title 01 is usually the English, main title for most movies) and then hit Go.

This process might take about 10-15mins (depending on your mac).

Once your done, you’ll get the nice Done screen.

Step 4. Using Toast 7 Titanium to compress/burn movie to DVD.

Open up Toast 7 TItanium. Click on the Video Tab and then choose DVD-Video from VIDEO_TS.

Now press the Select button and find the folder we just ripped to.

Now you should have a few more options. Depending on if you ripped the whole movie w/menus or just the movie, your options will change. Toast will compress the movie if its over 4.36GB in size. So far the compression is equivalent to DVD2one’s on the PC side. Here are a few of the options you can set.

or if you change to Main Movie only, you can select the audio streams and more.

Pop in a blank DVD and click the burn button. This might take some time depending on if your movie has to be compressed or not; some movies will be a 1:1 video backup while longer ones may be compressed.
Hopefully once it finishes compressing and burning, your movie will mount and play on your mac!

That concludes my first Mac DVD Backup guide. Email me w/questions or comments.

NOTES:

-if you have probs w/the video not encoding w/toast, just rip the whole dvd each time if you have the extra hd space; that way you can choose to have Toast remove the menus or if you want to keep them.

As always, this guide is for backup/educational purpose only. I do not promote piracy or bootlegging. peace

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