[Woziak]

You can also try OsEx or JadeX to rip your DVDs

http://www.videohelp.com/tools?s=15#15

They have some different options wich could prove to be usefull...

If you cannot select the right audio tracks just rip it with all tracks and do a remux with FFmpegX...

I use DVDplayer.app to test my rips. If they play in DVDplayer.app they play everwhere is my experience...

[TheAxledentalDJ]

Woziak, I have tried OsEx and its not for me, but as for JadeX, I havent heard of that. Any links to that?
I'm using Mplayer OS X 2, to play the VIDEO_TS folder to get a better idea if it will play on my Tvix or not.
I've tried FFmpegx and its not something I want to use.
Are you refering to the DVD player that Mac OS X comes with when you mention DVDplayer.app?

Thanks

[Woziak]

Originally Posted by TheAxledentalDJ Woziak, I have tried OsEx and its not for me, but as for JadeX, I havent heard of that. Any links to that?

- It's at the link above but i spelled it wrong. YadeX is the right name

Originally Posted by TheAxledentalDJ I'm using Mplayer OS X 2, to play the VIDEO_TS folder to get a better idea if it will play on my Tvix or not. I've tried FFmpegx and its not something I want to use. Are you refering to the DVD player that Mac OS X comes with when you mention DVDplayer.app?

- Yep it's DVDplayer.app that comes with Mac OS X... It's not as forgiving as VLC or Mplayer wich is good for testing.

FFmpegX is not easy but a very powerfull tool wich lets you do almost anything.

[TheAxledentalDJ]

I figured you misspelled it. No problem. YadeX is foreign, only works with unencrypted DVDs from the DVD-ROM drive. I'm doing all my work from ripped original DVDs onto my HDD. The ones that dont play on my Tvix I'll leave on my HDD in hopes I can find some app that will let me re-build the VTS_IFO files directly from just the .vob files. I'm borrowing Apples DVD Studio pro to see if it lets you take just .vob files and let you master/author a DVD movie out of it.

[TheAxledentalDJ]

Hmm, I noticed when I tried to look on the remote and in the setup menu of my Tvix, I dont see a way to turn off the feature of auto Bookmark, as it seems to remember the last posistion I played a DVD.

Also, I have not found an easy way to switch Digital tracks from Dolby Digital to DTS during a DVD movie. I'll re-read the manual and if they are not in there, then I'll post a request on Tvix's forum for a feature to be added in the future. Unless I'm doing something wrong.

[TheAxledentalDJ]

I learned some IFO tricks, I used myDVDEdit and took another VIDEO_TS ifos. I took a ripped DTS trailer, took only its IFO's and placed them with a vob (DTS Trailer) I was having trouble playing by itself in DTS, and I fixed its audio track to become selectable in my Tvix M-5000U and got it to display the correct aspect ratio and be able to select the DTS track. I used myDVDedit to correct the aspect ratio (with replaced ifos) and myDVDedit corrected something and it allowed me to test it in Apples DVD player and it worked.

So far I mainly rip my DVDs with Mac The Ripper 2.6.6 Main feature Extraction method and test the VIDEO_TS folders with MPlayer OS X 2 and with VLC and if they both play on those, then it plays on my Tvix.

[TheAxledentalDJ]

Well, I'm almost done, my internal Seagate 750GB (698.5 FAT32 format) is about full. I've been getting used to fixing some DVD rips with myDVDEdit.
Selecting in myDVDEdits option to play test them in Apple's DVD player lets me know if it works in the Apple DVD player. I mainly use now just Mac the Ripper 2.6.6, and Main Feature Extraction and in preferences check mark the Disable UOPS warning. You can, if the Main Feature Extraction has problems use Title Set Extraction. Sometimes certain studios turn on the RCE, Mac the Ripper says detected and I have to set it to RCE 1 in Mac the Ripper. The DVDs from Dreamworks and Disney (and its subsidiaries) I have to go into myDVDedit, delete the Menu VTS and 2nd command in the VTS cell that states is not found and then it works in Apples DVD player. Overal all for a Mac person, you just need Mac the Ripper 2.6.6 and myDVDedit, and your good to go. That is as long as you like Raw DVD files on your Tvix M-5000U..
Oh and I use Transmit 4.5.x and found that teh FTP problem I was having that it would transfer files over to the Tvix, but the files showed up as 0kb. So In order to get it to work (passive mode on) I have to create the folder first on the Tvix HDD and drag the files inside of the folder into directly to the folder on the Tvix. its probably a mac thing. I hear it happens with FTP.
I just install 1.9.0 beta firmware again and tested a vob trailer playback via ext USB with my iaudio X5 30GB media player. I had it plugged to the Tvix USB host port, had to re-boot the Tvix in order for it to show up on the Tvix menu as a USB drive and played the vob trailer and then played an Raw DVD and it works great.

[rockit]

there was a version of YadeX that worked with encrypted DVDs... so try to find it cause it's the easiest ripper to use on a mac...
osex is the most effective in my opinion (but not the most straightforward), mactheripper is sometimes not very handy to my opinion..

I guess osex is easy to use as soon as you know what results you want (elementary streams, vob etc...)

but I don't really agree to say that on a mac things seems like being "mac things"... as if there were the "normal things" and the "mac things" that make using macs being trickier in a "normal" environment...

[TheAxledentalDJ]

Mac the Ripper 2.6.6 and myDVDedit is all I need now.

[fishrain]

Originally Posted by TheAxledentalDJ I will be using my Mac Mini (PPC) and using Mac The Ripper 2.6.6 and Mac The Riper 3.0 beta 13D (www.mactheripper.org) to make my DVD movie only ripps onto my Tvix M5000 which will have a Seagate 750GB HDD (FAT32 formated already with 698.46GBs).

can you tell me how you can use 698,46 GB on a FAT32 formated HDD. I read somewhere that if using FAT32 (instead NTFS) there are only 32 GB available!!!???