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Saving DVD to Hard Drive

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I'm wondering if there is a way to save a DVD to my hard drive, and then still play it back to me. Kind of like what Alcohol 120% for a PC could do, where I would save the DVD as an image on my HD.

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ok, I used Mactheripper to put the DVD to my harddrive, now how do I play it from there?
 
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In DVD Player use File => Open VIDEO_TS Folder. It should open up the same as a DVD.
 
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ok, that worked, thanks a lot! next question, when I go to burn the files onto a DVD. How exactly do I do that? I tried selecting all the files and clicking "burn." After a few minutes of burning it just gave me a disc that had been burned w/ nothing on it.
 
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You, more than likely, wont be able to do that. That's because the size of 'commercial' DVD's is bigger than the ones that you'll find. Almost all films will be too big to fit on a DVD-r. You may be able to compress it, but I'm not sure about that one.
 
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There are a couple of commercial apps that might help you there. DVD2OneX and Popcorn seem to hold the largest mindshare at the moment. If your burn is 4.7 GB you could do it without first compressing, but most movies use dual layer so will not fit on a single layer DVD without compressing a bit.
 

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