On Jan 23, 2006, at 8:43 AM, Francesco sciacca wrote:
Have you tried MacTheRipper with Popcorn?
Roxio advertise the latest Toast 7 as being able to 'copy and
compress'
DVDs. I'm not sure to what extent that works, but it'd be great to
hear from
some actual user (if anyone out there). True that Dual-Layer DVDs
would ease
the process, but when I bought a new Dual-Layer superdrive to beef
up my
powerbook, little I knew that blancs went for £30 (well over $50) per
5-pack! And they still do now, 6 months later...
I was a little disappointed in Popcorn's features as implemented as
opposed to as advertised. I can't speak to Toast yet.
A common way to save room is to compress audio- big space savings,
little to no hit in quality. Popcorn, for DVDs with multiple
chapters, cannot compress the audio portion, only the video portion.
You can only compress audio for DVDs without "sections"- whatever the
proper term is. Trouble is, almost all DVDs these days have chapters.
Windows freeware (DVDShrink) is much more flexible in this regard.
It looked to me when viewing the feature list, they basically rolled
Popcorn into Toast; I've not looked at it in great detail but the
feature set didn't seem improved that much. They stated that Popcorn
could compress audio but did not mention that for most discs, you
won't be able to use that feature effectively.
The other commercial OS X software for doing this (DVD Magic?
whatever it was, I forget) might be more flexible, might not- it was
certainly a lot more expensive than Popcorn at the time of my purchase.
Anyway be sure to look into the fine print/ call tech support at
Roxio if this limitation might affect you. I got Popcorn to be able
to keep a undamaged version of DVDs we use in teaching after a couple
expensive ones were scratched and needed replaced- I can do what I
need with Popcorn, but it bugs me to compress video when audio would
be almost lossless.
Brian
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