Teeming Millions,
So I have a DVD, not a commercial one, but a private DVD of a performance that I’d like to post on the internet. Oh yeah, and I have a Mac. So I spent about 5 hours yesterday trying to figure out how I could rip this DVD onto my harddrive as a .mov before, out of sheer frustration, I felt like smashing my computer with a crowbar. Basically, I don’t know how to do this. I know there must be a way. What programs do I need? How can I make this work? I am, as always, in your capable hands.
C’mon now—granted, I should be in some dweebed out tech forum, maybe, but I’m ascared of those places. Plus, I have far more faith in the people here than anywhere else.
Well here at The Dope we have several forums. This one happens to be called ATMB or About This Mesage Board. I fail to see the relavence of the OP to ATMB. I am not Junior Modding just suggesting you place your OP in an appropriate forum here like General Questions ir IMHO you will get better responses.
I am not suggesting you post outside the Dope the forums I mentioned are part of it.
I can’t help you with the conversion (the software I use is not available for mac), but I’d like to discourage you from using the MOV format. MPG will work for everyone without them having to download Quicktime.
Quicktime (and .mov) is not an encoding format (codec) by itself. Rather, it is a container format, that wraps MPEGs, WAVs, Sorensons, and whatnot in one file. Having an MPEG file in Quicktime format is not unusual.
It doesn’t matter if the DVD is commercial or not; if it’s a regular pop-in-the-DVD player DVD, then you will need a program to rip the video and audio data off the DVD onto your computer. Quicktime won’t do it, because Quicktime is a media player, not an extractor.