A couple Mac tools for DVD ripping and compression

Sweet - I just installed MacTheRipper and Handbrake and have discovered a whole new world of “backing things up”. MacTheRipper first rips the DVD, than Handbrake comes in for compression. Hot damn, this is exciting. It seems that our Mac Mini will soon become a nifty little first floor media center in our house. I don’t know why I haven’t paid much attention to this until now, but I’m excited. Hot damn!

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Raghu 11 months ago 1 point
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Thanks Jeff. I was looking for a good tool to backup my DVD collection.

Happy holidays and Merry Christmas to you and Erin

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Brendan Gramer 10 months ago 1 point
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From my experience so far, you don't need MacTheRipper.

Go right to Handbrake if you want to rip the file, and just put it in the Movies folder and you can play the video thru Front Row on the Mini.

if you're one of these nuts who insist on DIVX/XVID instead, rip in Handbrake using the highest settings to preserve the quality then get Burn ( http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/ ) to convert the file to DIVX/XVID ... move over the converted file into the Movies folder (this is where Front Row looks for your movies.)

Front Row plays Quicktime - which means you're going to need to put Perian and/or DIVX/XVID codecs into the Quicktime Components folder within your computer settings. When that happens, Front Row can play DIVX/XVID movies too.

I have AppleTV and haven't really used it much because it's slow and a pain in the ass to sync up iTunes from our computers around the house to the device, but I've used Front Row on my laptop, and am pretty sure that it's the same for the MacMini to be more flexible/extendable. The only thing is that AppleTV has up on the Mini is the HDMI port.

That may all change with MacWorld '08. Until then - we're waiting to see if we should ditch the AppleTV and move towards the Mini.

If AppleTV is a no-go, we'll get the Mini and a couple extra external hard drives and RAID it all up to be one big file server. I'd probably turn on all the Share settings within the Mini's OS so we can access it over the network to transfer our media from devices on case-by-case basis.

Great articles (and sort of "how to")
http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/25/how-to-turn-...

http://scobleizer.com/2007/12/27/the-macmini-hd...

http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/28/the-intel-...

http://nextlust.com/a-mac-mini-or-an-appletv-wh...

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Raghu 10 months ago 1 point
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Thanks Jeff. I was looking for a good tool to backup my DVD collection.

Happy holidays and Merry Christmas to you and Erin

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Brendan Gramer 10 months ago 1 point
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From my experience so far, you don't need MacTheRipper.

Go right to Handbrake if you want to rip the file, and just put it in the Movies folder and you can play the video thru Front Row on the Mini.

if you're one of these nuts who insist on DIVX/XVID instead, rip in Handbrake using the highest settings to preserve the quality then get Burn ( http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/ ) to convert the file to DIVX/XVID ... move over the converted file into the Movies folder (this is where Front Row looks for your movies.)

Front Row plays Quicktime - which means you're going to need to put Perian and/or DIVX/XVID codecs into the Quicktime Components folder within your computer settings. When that happens, Front Row can play DIVX/XVID movies too.

I have AppleTV and haven't really used it much because it's slow and a pain in the ass to sync up iTunes from our computers around the house to the device, but I've used Front Row on my laptop, and am pretty sure that it's the same for the MacMini to be more flexible/extendable. The only thing is that AppleTV has up on the Mini is the HDMI port.

That may all change with MacWorld '08. Until then - we're waiting to see if we should ditch the AppleTV and move towards the Mini.

If AppleTV is a no-go, we'll get the Mini and a couple extra external hard drives and RAID it all up to be one big file server. I'd probably turn on all the Share settings within the Mini's OS so we can access it over the network to transfer our media from devices on case-by-case basis.

Great articles (and sort of "how to")
http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/25/how-to-turn-...

http://scobleizer.com/2007/12/27/the-macmini-hd...

http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/28/the-intel-...

http://nextlust.com/a-mac-mini-or-an-appletv-wh...

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Jeff Judge 10 months ago 1 point
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Thanks, I just figured that out a few days ago. I think HandBrake released a new version of their software in December which includes the ripping functionality, it may have been included before and I just didn't notice it.

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