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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.

Jessica - Dec 29, 2005 5:25:32 am PST #6208 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'll try MtR again -- I haven't fiddled with all the settings, so I might have missed something.

I didn't think about ffmpegx either, so I can try that when I get home.

Thanks for the tips!

tommyrot - Dec 29, 2005 5:28:24 am PST #6209 of 10003

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

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.

Was this a "mass produced" disk, or is it a blank disk that someone burned? I don't know anything about DVD burning, but if it's the latter, maybe it's a multi-session DVD and the second session hasn't been closed yet?

Jessica - Dec 29, 2005 5:33:31 am PST #6210 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

It's a press screener, so it's cheap, but professionally produced.

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