Panasonic DVD Recorders

I'm looking into options for creating video for my PSP. I have 2 main options, a TV Tuner for the Mac, or buy a "home" DVD recorder and convert those files. I would want the Panasonic machine that writes to DVD-RAM, DVD-R and DVD-RW. I know DVD-RAM is not an option on the Mac, but does anyone know if I would be able to do anything with the recordings on DVD-R or DVD-RW on the Mac and convert them to MP4?
Cheers
Matt

I use VR mode DVD-R discs from my Pioneer standalone recorder. You need Toast 7 to be able to extract the video from those discs. Otherwise you can only extract video from finalized video-mode DVDs recorded on the Panasonic.
As for DVD-RAM, Toast 7 reports that the Matshita UJ-846 Superdrive in my iMac (iSight) will read DVD-RAM and Toast 7 will extract MPEGs from DVD-RAM media. I don't know for sure because I have nothing that writes to DVD-RAM media.
Another application that will extract the video from those discs is Pixe VRF Browser. However, Toast 7 works better and is a far better value.

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CdRomPeripheral : UL5613T ILM741E 1.0 dtscsi Port 5 ID 2 DMA: Off
CdRomPeripheral : UL5613T ILM741E 1.0 dtscsi Port 5 ID 3 DMA: Off
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   Multisession : FALSE
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and here's my original standard answer
* DVDxDV (free trial, 25$)
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