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So I have spent the last wekk trying to find a way to burn DVD's on my Imac G3 and here is what I have found . Hope this helps other folks out .
I used DVDshrink (PC app. Stay with me. I'm going somewhere with this.) to compress DVD9's to fit on a DVD5 with working menus and very minimal image quality degradation . I was able to do this by using my girlfriends PC laptop with my external hdd and ripping the files to the external . The finished files are the files found in a VIDEO_TS folder and it hit me .
Why not rip the files and then create a folder with the name of the DVD I ripped , put the files (vobs,ifo,bups) into a new folder that I named Video_TS and place that in the folder with the movie name ? Then I figured let me add a folder named AUDIO_TS into the movie folder so that you have both the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders the way a real DVD would . I then dragged the movie folder containing the 2 subfolders into Toast 5 and burned in Other-DVD . 90 minutes later I had a working and very good looking (picture quality ) copy of The Matrix . Have since burned backups fo Gladiator , Blade 2 and Braveheart and they work excellently .
So here's what I'm thinking : Download DVdshrink and install on Virtual PC (for those that have it ) and then transfer the shared folder to your MAC and burn in Toast . Easy as pie .No decoding or re-encoding , no DVDSP or FCP or any of that other stuff .
Hope this offers a new option and if someone has already thought of it , sorry . This is my firstthread in this forum so be gentle folks , I'm a Newb . Peace all and Happy Ripping .
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