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I just got my first mac and I am in love! I am trying to copy a DVD onto my hardrive and I was wondering how I would do that? Would I need any programs? Any Help is appreciated! Thank you so much!

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I have discussed this at great lengths, but here it goes again. use mactheripper to rip to your hd, itll most likely be around 7 gb,you can only watch the movie in its ripped format, .vob files, in mplayer or vlc, I recommend mplayer.do a search in the forums for burn dvd or something similiar.
 
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Hello i was just wondering if my Mac had a dual layer burner?
also can it burn dvd-r/+ formats as i aven't a clue it just says' superdrive dvd-r

it's a matsihuta or summit like that ;)

Thanks
 
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look in system profiler, if not, you can flash the drives firmware to 108-a to make it burn dual layer discs, thouigh DL disc burning is not supported in all apps.
 
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How do I flash the drives firmware? I too want to burn dual layered discs and system profiler says nothing about the capability of burning dual layered discs. Any help is greatly appreciated!!

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Macman said:
I have discussed this at great lengths, but here it goes again. use mactheripper to rip to your hd, itll most likely be around 7 gb,you can only watch the movie in its ripped format, .vob files, in mplayer or vlc, I recommend mplayer.do a search in the forums for burn dvd or something similiar.
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Just curious, but you do know that you can watch the ripped films in DVD player right? File-> 'open VIDEO_TS folder'

Just checking :)
 
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yup. but I think if youre gonna rip it, may as well burn it.
 
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if I remember correctly, alll you need to do is get the 1.8 superdrive firmware update and install it.
 

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