Just Bought A MacBook...

gravy · Post by **gravy** » Mon May 21, 2007 8:20 am 0

Mat T wrote:The problem with Handbrake from what I can see is that it only rips to mp4 format? I literally want to be able to recreate DVDs ala the PC programs I mentioned.

There's this but I've not used it myself

http://www.dvd2one.com

Mat T · Post by **Mat T** » Mon May 21, 2007 8:34 am 0

gravy wrote:
Mat T wrote:The problem with Handbrake from what I can see is that it only rips to mp4 format? I literally want to be able to recreate DVDs ala the PC programs I mentioned.
There's this but I've not used it myself

http://www.dvd2one.com

Awesome, I'll give it a whirl! Thanks.

MegaZoid. · Post by **MegaZoid.** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:24 am 0

Prog called burn is probably the best out there for the mac , its free and its never failed me.

Surfr · Post by **Surfr** » Mon May 21, 2007 10:08 am 0

Excuse my ignoran ce but coulf you not just dd to duplicate the DVD ?

In regards to LaTeX, I recently looked at the options for this and ended up downloading a large package of every TeX related Mac product out there, but It works brilliantly. http://www.tug.org/mactex/

I completely agree with Tufty re the horible darwinports, fink et al.

If you are a command line fan like me, I made my life easier by grabbing wget, ncftp, cdrtools, nmap, psutils.

My recomendation is Camino Browser. Geko engine and Cocoa GUI. mmmm Lovely. Hugely faster than Safari, Better looking than Firefox. Bes of both worlds. And like most Mac software, It's very stable too.

Slick2097 · Post by **Slick2097** » Mon May 21, 2007 11:14 am 0

MacTheRipper is your DVD ripping friend.

*edit* url included Mac The Ripper

Ste.

tufty · Post by **tufty** » Mon May 21, 2007 11:19 am 0

Surfr wrote:Excuse my ignoran ce but coulf you not just dd to duplicate the DVD ?

Not sure if dd will duplicate dvds, due to differences between the actual disk layouts for "prerecorded" media and writeable. That said, I don't have a DVD writer, so I've never tried.

Toast claims to be able to do it (and, as payware goes, is pretty good, although Adaptec or Roxio or whatever they are called these days have a tendency to make you pay for every point release). I'm sure there is freeware that will do it.

If all you want to do is image the disk, of course, there's no need to go to the commandline to do it, /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app will happily image a DVD as long as you tell it to create an image from the device and use "CD/DVD Master". Not sure if you can burn that to a blank DVD, but it certainly works for CDs

MegaZoid. · Post by **MegaZoid.** » Mon May 21, 2007 11:54 am 0

Seriously this programme will definatly duplicate/copy dvd's.
Its called Burn (for the mac) and you can find it here :

http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/

Its a piece of piss to use ,its free and it just qorks

MegaZoid. · Post by **MegaZoid.** » Mon May 21, 2007 11:55 am 0

It just Works

tufty · Post by **tufty** » Mon May 21, 2007 3:19 pm 0

MegaZoid. wrote:Seriously this programme will definatly duplicate/copy dvd's.
Its called Burn (for the mac) and you can find it here :

http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/

Its a piece of piss to use ,its free and it just qorks :)

It may qork, but it looks like it's going to replace toast for me. Which is handy, as it was time to upgrade.

Simon

Mat T · Post by **Mat T** » Tue May 22, 2007 7:17 am 0

Excellent recommendations as always, thank you all. If I need anything else, I will drop another message on here!

Mat T · Post by **Mat T** » Fri May 25, 2007 5:00 am 0

Does anybody else have a MacBook? I have had some reset problems the last couple of days. Has anyone else had any issues?

From looking online it sounds like some of them might have heat issues, thus the reset.

Hmmm...