DVD ripping

Hi All,

probably a question asked regularly...

I was at the Genius Bar today, and i saw on the TV screen something about ripping a 4.7gb DVD into a <2gb H.264 file. THe guy at the Genius bar didn't really hep me... so ill ask the question here.

For copyrights sake, these DVD's are property presentations i have created for clients, which i would like to upload to my AppleTV in my office, of which I dont have the original files on my mac anymore.

How do i do this??????

Hope someone can help!!!

Cheers
Geoffrey

Maybe RipIt - The Mac DVD Ripper

Regards

That program looks good,

just seemed like on the screen it was something inbuilt into the mac... the genius at the bar said it should be done in imovie....

i didnt believe him

I'm sure iMovie also has a way of doing it, but also you can edit the video if you wanted to. If you just wanted to rip a DVD into digital form to move around, this program should do. Also if you do need to encode it to different formats once you've ripped it, you can try HandBrake

Regards

hanbrake will do it and handbrake is free. It will create H.264 mp4s and depending on the length of the DVD you may be able to get it within a gig.

The Genius was incorrect if he gave you the impression that the Mac could extract video from a DVD into an iMovie/iTunes acceptable format out of the box.

You need third-party software to do that part.

AFTER the DVD's video has been converted to an MP4 file, THEN you can add it to iTunes, sync with AppleTV et al.

Handbrake has a nice AppleTV preset. So, since the disc isn't copyprotected, it should just be a matter of opening the disc with Handbrake, selecting the AppleTV preset and clicking Start. Once it's all done, just drag it into iTunes and sync.