That's probably why it's still in prototype stage...
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DCJensen - Dec 28, 2005 5:34:06 pm PST #6198 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
-t - Dec 28, 2005 6:25:16 pm PST #6199 of 10003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
meara, I went ahead and bought an a battery from Apple when I had the same problem, and I've been happy with it. I'm trying to follow their suggestion of running it down pretty frequently in the hopes that that willextend it's life. I've only had it a month or two, so I can't tell how well that's working, yet.
I'm going to send off my old batter to be reconditioned as soon as I have the time and energy to deal with it. I've heard that that works well. And I've also heard that third party batteries last longer than Apple, but I had a hard enough time figuring out what battery I needed to get while only considering the official Apple ones, so I didn't go that route. Also, buying from Apple meant going to an apple store and getting a battery right then rather than waiting for something to come in the mail. But I don't know that there's a wrong answer, really.
§ ita § - Dec 28, 2005 9:42:57 pm PST #6200 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Once you have the file ripped to a decent size, Jessica, the torrenting part isn't really that hard. That's the best part to get it really out there into the world, including to anonymous folk. Is that what you want, or do you want to do something more pointed, like yousendit?
Jessica - Dec 29, 2005 4:48:10 am PST #6201 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh, yousendit's a good idea. And probably less legally dicey than torrenting, even if these won't ever air.
The problem I'm having now is that I can't seem to rip the whole thing -- only the first ep, which is the only one of the three that aired!
Anyone want to recommend a good DVD ripper for Mac?
Gris - Dec 29, 2005 5:03:17 am PST #6202 of 10003
Hey. New board.
Handbrake is the easiest to use, and also one of the most feature-rich for ripping to various types of AVI files. Send me an email if you want suggestions on which options to use.
Jessica - Dec 29, 2005 5:06:39 am PST #6203 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I tried Handbrake, and it only got the first ep. Ditto w/Mac the Ripper.
(Being a preview disc, I'm sure there's some copy protection involved -- there may not be a free program that can break it.)
Tom Scola - Dec 29, 2005 5:08:06 am PST #6204 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Being a preview disk, it might also be that the disk isn't protected at all.
Gris - Dec 29, 2005 5:12:02 am PST #6205 of 10003
Hey. New board.
Hmm. By "it only got the first ep" do you mean that you couldn't pick other titles besides the first ep, or it crashed if you did?
Jessica - Dec 29, 2005 5:18:35 am PST #6206 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
By "it only got the first ep" do you mean that you couldn't pick other titles besides the first ep,
This. Handbrake seems to think that the entire disc is only 22 minutes long. When I get home, I'll see if there are other settings to try.
Gris - Dec 29, 2005 5:23:01 am PST #6207 of 10003
Hey. New board.
Huh. Odd. I had that problem with a couple of discs once, and had to resort to using mencoder (a command-line utility that's rather a PITA to use) to get it ripped. I'm quite surprised that MacTheRipper has that issue, though.
You could try using ffmpegX, which is an mencoder front end, but it typically requires an unencrypted input folder, which your DVD may or may not be. Plus, it's not the simplest program in the world, though there are Howtos of various types on the web page.