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Use DVD Shrink to backup DVDs, DVD Shrink Backup Files
Step One: Download the DVDshrink Package.
I know what your thinking... "YOU SAID THIS WAS FREE!!" and it is. Just mount the damn disk image! :) After you've stopped arguing and mounted it, you'll find see the DVDShrink and below it, this is a Freeware app, and this is what we're after. Copy this (bagel) to your Applications folder. In the same manner copy DVD Imager, applications from their disk images into the Applications folder.
*DVD SHRINK*
DVDShrink setup comes as a zip, so extract it and run it.
It should run automatically with X11 window.
Darwine will guide you through setup install a shortcut on your desktop (which I would then move to the apps folder, so as not to clutter the desktop. ;)
Now DVDShrink is installed and so are all other Mac apps in the Apps folder, we can begin ripping.
*DECRYPTION*
Now to copy...
Slam that DVD into the DVD Drive!
Close the annoying DVD Player that automatically pops up. Navigate to your applications folder and double click on the Dvd Shrink bagel.
DVD Shrink will take a few seconds to fully kick in -
- after it has, it will be actively decrypting the DVD on-the-fly, as you rip it.
Next go to apps and open DVD Imager which you dragged there previously.
It would usually tell you some sob story about not being able to rip copy protected movies, you laugh at it because you now have Fairmount busy, removing that nasty copy protection on-the-fly :)
*RIP*
Open DVD Imager. --> Next you tick the checkbox that says "Prompt for new Destination".
Open a new Finder window. Find the disk image that contains the movie in the Finder, then drag the VIDEO_TS folder straight into DVD Imager. It will prompt you for a destination.
You choose ***DOCUMENTS*** as destination.
Becomes clear later. And type in the name of your movie for the image name.
While the movie rips, you do something else, because this takes time.
*COMPRESS*
Next step. Compress.
To compress the .img file you just created, open DVDShrink using the shortcut in your apps folder
then use it to compress the image.
Change the default quality settings if you desire (discussed in other guide).
Then you want to hit "Backup" and select the type as ISO
Make sure you save it to an easy to access location (not the Default C:). Preferably save it to My Documents, which translates to the User Home folder under Mac OS.
Wait five or so minutes. It'll be quick because we've already removed copyright, and its faster to access because its on the hard drive now.
*BURN*
Find the .iso file.
And right click.
Open it with disk utility
Put the blank disc in. Click on the corresponding image in the left hand pane, and then click the radioctive burn button. :P
Soon it will have burnt, and you will have, your own DVD9 compressed to a DVD5, and burnt on a Mac.
One last note...
Find the image we made from a DVD9, it'll be about 6GB, and delete it. You only really need the 5GB compressed version. You can delete that too if you want, after you've burnt it, to save space.
I know what your thinking... "YOU SAID THIS WAS FREE!!" and it is. Just mount the damn disk image! :) After you've stopped arguing and mounted it, you'll find see the DVDShrink and below it, this is a Freeware app, and this is what we're after. Copy this (bagel) to your Applications folder. In the same manner copy DVD Imager, applications from their disk images into the Applications folder.
*DVD SHRINK*
DVDShrink setup comes as a zip, so extract it and run it.
It should run automatically with X11 window.
Darwine will guide you through setup install a shortcut on your desktop (which I would then move to the apps folder, so as not to clutter the desktop. ;)
Now DVDShrink is installed and so are all other Mac apps in the Apps folder, we can begin ripping.
*DECRYPTION*
Now to copy...
Slam that DVD into the DVD Drive!
Close the annoying DVD Player that automatically pops up. Navigate to your applications folder and double click on the Dvd Shrink bagel.
DVD Shrink will take a few seconds to fully kick in -
- after it has, it will be actively decrypting the DVD on-the-fly, as you rip it.
Next go to apps and open DVD Imager which you dragged there previously.
It would usually tell you some sob story about not being able to rip copy protected movies, you laugh at it because you now have Fairmount busy, removing that nasty copy protection on-the-fly :)
*RIP*
Open DVD Imager. --> Next you tick the checkbox that says "Prompt for new Destination".
Open a new Finder window. Find the disk image that contains the movie in the Finder, then drag the VIDEO_TS folder straight into DVD Imager. It will prompt you for a destination.
You choose ***DOCUMENTS*** as destination.
Becomes clear later. And type in the name of your movie for the image name.
While the movie rips, you do something else, because this takes time.
*COMPRESS*
Next step. Compress.
To compress the .img file you just created, open DVDShrink using the shortcut in your apps folder
then use it to compress the image.
Change the default quality settings if you desire (discussed in other guide).
Then you want to hit "Backup" and select the type as ISO
Make sure you save it to an easy to access location (not the Default C:). Preferably save it to My Documents, which translates to the User Home folder under Mac OS.
Wait five or so minutes. It'll be quick because we've already removed copyright, and its faster to access because its on the hard drive now.
*BURN*
Find the .iso file.
And right click.
Open it with disk utility
Put the blank disc in. Click on the corresponding image in the left hand pane, and then click the radioctive burn button. :P
Soon it will have burnt, and you will have, your own DVD9 compressed to a DVD5, and burnt on a Mac.
One last note...
Find the image we made from a DVD9, it'll be about 6GB, and delete it. You only really need the 5GB compressed version. You can delete that too if you want, after you've burnt it, to save space.