A friend of mine just bought a new iMac, eMac, G4, or whatever that has the new superdrive on it (dvd-r/cd-rw). Anyway, he asked me if I could find software to backup dvds that works with the MacOS. Not knowing myself, I thought one or more of you may.
Thanks in advance!
The best software to make a perfect backup of a dvd is DVD-Backup for Mac OS X.
http://www.wormintheapple.gr/macdvd/DVDbackup.html
The superdrive can only burn to DVD-5…that means DVD which can support (only) 4,3Go (4,7Gb). Most DVDs are more than 4,3Go so they will require some reencoding in a lesser quality to fit on a 4,3 Go dvd. This is called the DVD-9 to DVD-5 technique.
There are a few softwares that can do this:
Minx transcoder
http://www.hillmanminx.net/transcoder/
forty-two
http://homepage.mac.com/kaicherry/
ffmpegX (the most complete application, but a little difficult to use at first)
http://homepage.mac.com/major4/
For a practical guide doing DVD-9 to DVD-5 check here:
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=138989&highlight=dvd9+dvd5+guide[/url]
For more information for DVD on the mac check the following forums:
http://www.3ivx.com/forums/
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=9
Hope this helps and welcome to the mac/unix plateform !
Polopo 