My DVD is unbelievably huge

I bought an expensive set of video DVDs for class and am trying to make a personal set of backup copies. I'm failing miserably. I've had many strange experiences trying to copy these discs, but here's the point:
The DVD appears to contain 48 GB of data.
First, I made a copy with K3B, but it didn't play in my DVD player. Then, I made a copy using k9copy. I could play the copied image correctly using VLC but the ISO was 16 GB. Now, I'm currently trying to make a copy using dvdbackup. It hasn't finished yet, but the image directory is currently around 26 GB. I used the "du" command on the DVD directory mounted under "/media", and apparently this DVD is 48 GB big.
Is this normal? I'm so confused. Isn't the contents of the DVD supposed to be, you know, around 4.7 GB?
Edit: The "df" command reports that the mounted DVD is around 4.5 GB. Now I'm more confused.
Thank you.
Last edited by drcouzelis (2011-05-31 18:15:11)

Gusar wrote:It's normal, yes. Welcome to the world of DRM. Over the years they've tried all sorts of crazy stuff to "protect" the content on the discs. What you're seeing is one of them. DVDFab HD Decrypter can handle all this crap and works nicely in wine. So I suggest you use that. Possibly a 'mplayer dvdnav://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile blah.vob' could work too.
I was afraid of that.
I'll go ahead and try the DVDFab application. Thanks for the advice.
Also, the mplayer command does appear to work, but I'm going to see if I can't get a complete copy, menus included.

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Disconnecting/Connecting
Just plug in via USB and wait (can take a few minutes). Ipod will load up and the screen will show DO NOT DISCONNECT go to itunes and update it or add file do whatever to it.
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2.) Open my computer and you should see your ipod as a removable drive. Right click it and click eject.
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http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/guides.html
macleankara’s guide (a little bit more info and pretty simple too) http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=282835&tstart=15
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Decreasing Quality after Export to Encore

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Here's a screen shot of the DVD at 720x480 size: http://screencast.com/t/7a91ujCLHkT
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You don't say how often you will need to access the stored video. If it's not often -- only several times a month? -- I'd consider not importing it to iMovie at all. Rather, I'd just save the tapes (or create them). Then when I needed a portion of an interview, I'd import that segment of tape to iMovie. In other words, I'd consider not bothering to import the video until it was actually needed.
If you don't use tape, a 500 GB disk will store only 38 hours of DV video. (13GB per hour.) That's an option too if you need to be able to access the video quickly.
Another is to import the video to the Mac, then compress it with the H.264 codec, which delivers fantastic quality for its size. I assume the video is mostly talking heads, which compresses nicely.
Many times more H.264 can be stored on a disk than DV. To make the video even smaller, you might consider storing it in 320x240 format with a low data rate, say 300 kbits per second. It could be stored on disks or on DVDs.
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HI Gentlemen,
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HI Frank,
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It doesn't have slide transitions , but it's work could go to iMovie/iDvd ??
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Warning: we're going to jump a bit from topic to topic.
• An archive is a backup copy of something. The purpose of the archive is to preserve the thing as it exists today. An archive of an iMovie project "captures" it as it exists today. If necessary, months from now you can use the archive to re-create the project as it exists today.
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• Backup applications like Retrospect can create archives too. Retrospect can store the archive on a variety of media. The backup is stored in a format only Retrospect understands.
• Most of us also have another backup solution available to use with iMovie. Exporting the iMovie project back to tape is a good backup. For most projects, the clips return as clips when the tape is re-imported to a new project. Clips like titles and transitions are no longer editable, of course. Note you must re-import the material to access it.
IS there a way to save a 29 GB project to one DvD
• Regrettably, no. An iMovie (or iDVD) project cannot be larger than will fit on one DVD. Most iMovie projects are larger, of course. For them, the File > Burn project to disk command cannot be used.
• Software exists, however, that lets us back up an iMovie (or iDVD) project across multiple DVDs. These include Toast and Retrospect, the pre-eminent Mac backup software.
• iMovie projects stored on DVDs have one huge disadvantage, however. We must copy the project back to the hard drive to open it in iMovie. iMovie doesn't let us open a project stored on a DVD, for Movie can't write to the disc. (The DVD is, by definition, a locked medium.)
Note too that if the backup DVD is created by Retrospect, Retrospect is required to copy it back to the hard disk. (Sorry, I'm not familiar with Toast.)
• The Finder's File > New Burn Folder lets us burn computer files to a DVD as files. It can copy disk images, zip files and any other kind of computer files and folders to the DVD. Used in this way, the DVD functions like a small hard disk. It can't burn across multiple DVDs.
• A DVD containing data files is different from the DVD iDVD normally creates for us. DVD Normally creates TV-playable DVDs, not data-file DVDs. For these, iDVD encodes the video of our iMovie projects as MEPG-2 video, the language a DVD player understands. No computer data files are involved, at least not files a computer normally understands.
• The iDVD command File > Archive Project serves a different purpose than the archive of an iMovie project. Yes, it backs up the iDVD project too, but we usually make it for a different reason.
The iDVD project has no video or audio of its own, just a link to the reference movie iMovie stores inside the iMovie project. If we want to be able to burn a DVD of the current iMovie project some time later, or burn a DVD after the iMovie project has been discarded, we will have a problem. The source material may be gone. The iDVD archive solves this problem by storing a copy of the source material inside its archive.
So If you want to preserve an iDVD project as it exists today you can tell iDVD to create an archive the includes all the necessary source material from the iMovie project. Now the source material will be "static". We can open the archive sometime later, edit the DVD menus if we want, and burn another DVD.
• iDVD also offers the File > Save As Disk image. This command is not associated with archiving. This command is almost the same as burning a DVD, but it "burns" the encoded material as a disk image file instead of a physical DVD.
The disk image can be played in DVD Player on our Macs, and we can use Disk Utility to burn a DVD of the disk image.
"Burning" a disk image from iDVD is a good way to check the encoding by iDVD. If the disk image "burns" okay, the physical DVD we burn with Disk Utility will probably be okay too.
• As you suggested, the best solution may be an external hard drive. It's not only the easiest to use, it lets us access the iMovie project whenever we want.
• Much of what I've said is associated with routine backups, so I want to say a word about those. We always need backups of our important projects. At the very least, we need to keep a copy on a separate drive. Drives fail.
Experts say that we need to back up our computers daily, and maintain three backup copies, called backup sets. We need two backup sets that we alternate every day or so, both stored on site. And a third backup set stored off-site. (Off-site because our beach house may burn down and the high tides caused by global warming may carry the ashes out to sea.)
Retrospect does an incremental backup for me each night, backing up all the Macs in the house. The on-site backup not being used by Retrospect is stored in a fireproof data safe — a fireproof paper safe isn't cool enough. The third backup set is stored in a safe deposit box at a bank. I rotate the bank set every month or so with one of the two in-house backup sets. The two in-house backup sets are rotated every few days.
For backup media I use "bare" drives connected to a Firewire "dock", like this ComboDock. The drives snap on/off in seconds.
http://www.wiebetech.com/products/ComboDock.php
• Some on-line retailers include Retrospect with the drives they sell.
Hope something here is useful.
Karl

Problem with Scratch Disk - CS4 - Mac

Under project settings, scratch disks, I have set everything to a folder on my external drive, and it shows me for each item that there is 1TB of space available. I am attempting to capture from my Panasonic camera. As soon as I start capturing, it shows me I only have 27.2MB of space available! This doesn't make any sense at all, and is not even enough space to capture this half-hour of footage; the capture keeps dropping frames and will only capture about 10 min of film.
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I bought Quicktime pro because it said it could "Convert and save video, audio, and images to more than a hundred standard formats". I have .mov that i took and want to change to an .avi
I feel stupid but how do i do it? shouldn't there be a "convert" or "save as" button?

AVI isn't dead, it remains the ONLY format in which any real editing can be performed (ie filters and colors and zooms etc). That said, converting FROM any compressed format like .mov back to an uncompressed format will not restore the information lost in the original compression conversion. Like the man said, you probably won't like the result. If you want to make an AVI to edit artistically, you'll need to go back to the source and re-record it to make an original uncompressed avi (example I use 'DVD to AVI converter' software to recode my homemade DVDs to a huge uncompressed AVI, then play with cutting and cropping and zooming and special effects and color filters, etc in a program such as VirtualDub, an THEN open in QT Pro to convert to MOVs to share).

NX-OS 6.2 Cannot specify interface vlan as source-interface for logging

I have the following config on Catalyst:
logging source-interface Vlan1024
I want to be able to specify an interface vlan as the source-interface on NX-OS. The only option I can get is to use a loopback interface as the source-interface, but I want to specify an SVI. Is that possible with NX-OS?
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loopback Loopback interface

Hello
AppleWorks is bundled with only SOME machines, the iBook, iMac G5, eMac and macMini.
Of course, as the media used is a DVD with a huge capacity, the app is stored on the support wher the operating system SPECIFIC to the machine is also stored.
But this implies NO link with the two products.
AppleWorks 6 was carbonised in a hurry to show that the thing was do-able.
My point of view is that it was done assuming that a replacement app would be available quickly. So, stick to human guidelines was certainly not a priority.
In fact, what was thought to be a short period beame a long one because Mac OS X needed a lot of time to become a sufficiently stable basis on which Apple was able to build a successor to AppleWorks and, as we all know, the successor named iWork is far from a complete product. There is nothing like a spreadsheet or a database tool.
So, we have to continue to use our old fashioned AppleWorks (which is also, for many of us an old friend whith sympathetic wrinkles.)
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE lundi 30 janvier 2006 19:00:44)

Inserting DVD makes huge flapping noises.

I bought MacBook last January. December 2008, the case of my Mac was repaired because in November the case had had a crack near the edge of the computer. The issue seems to be normal, because I saw the same problem at the campus. After my Mac had a new type of case without convex parts, I had another problem. I could play any DVDS, but the DVDs with seals from the public library have made flapping noises, which bother me to watch them. The huge noises seemed to break my Mac. So I went to the Apple Store again. Then, the optical drive (Super Drive) was changed into a new one, although I had to wait for the repairing until January. But nothing sorted out for the noise. Eventually, the staff at the Apple Store blamed the DVD from the public library and my Mac which was not brand-new. Almost while I was waiting for the new part of the Super Drive, the free support period was over. Although I did not ask the staff to change the Super Drive, they decided to change it. But again, nothing sorted out. The noise was still scarily big.
I have tested the DVDs from the public library with other MacBooks which were the same model or older than mine in order to make sure if the problem was for mine or everybody. The other computers (MacBook) do not have any problem to watch the DVDs from the public library. The experiment reveals that only my Mac has a problem. I would like the technicians to investigate the inside of my Mac. But they refuse to do because they regarded the DVDs with seals from the public library as problematic. I was able to watch many DVDs before the case of my Mac was changed. I am wondering if anybody could help me.
Thank you.

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HUGE PROBLEM with sound in DVD Studio Pro 4

As I imported the soundtrack of the footage that I have (which is about 1h16), the combinaison of my video & the sound is over 4,7 Gig. Therefor, I can't burn it on a DVD.
I exported the audio in a lower quality to finally obtain a size of around 210mb for the sound (which was 844mb BEFORE!!!)
BUT, As soon as I add it to the timeline, the size goes up again to 855mb encoded!!!!!! I even tried which a compressed AIFF file of 50mb and the sound is still encoded to the same size, 855mb!!!
Where and how can I change the encoding of the audio in DVD Studio Pro so that I can lower the quality just a little bit so but my video and the audio will fit on a standard 4,7 Gig DVD!
Thanks!!

Drop your aiff files into Compressor, and elect Dolby 2 with -31 normalization no film compression.
I don't know what you mean by "I exported the audio in a lower quality."
Audio must be 48/16 stereo aiff/pcm before it is encoded in Compressor to Dolby 2.
What are your target and maximum bit rates for video in Compressor? Are you export video and audio separately before encoding in Compressor

My DVD is unbelievably huge

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