Mactheripper Mac Toast

of DVD movies that I own. I used to be using Handbrake to decode the DVD's, but after their latest updates, I was forced to switch programs. I just started using Mac the Ripper and iSkysoft's Video Converter tonight, and am having issues already. ...

'... if the DVD-r, a 4.7GB dvdr with a movie, is copied on my laptop, it copys it at 4.7GB+ sometimes up to 8.0GB.'... ''Why is this so?' - if the DVD you are copying, and thus removing the encryption - via 'MacTheRipper', is a commercial product - it would rarely be 4.x GB; but, is typically 8.+ GB. 'Can i make it smaller so it can fit on a normal DVD-R and not a...

Provided you have the hard drive space and the newest super drives from Apple, you use MacTheRipper to rip and remove CSS Encryption, Toast Titanium to make copies, and DVD2OneX for compression if needed. I've been using HandBrake for ripping DVDs already on my hard drive to my new 60 GB video iPod. ...

Aside from that and the "killer apps" like Photoshop and Office, I tend to find the Mac already has everything I need and don't find as much use for mounds of shareware. ...

im usin toast 7 to back up my DVD's, except once ive chosen the dvd i wanna back up, after ripping it with mactheripper and chosing the appropriet media, it just "shakes" when i hit record. it recognises my superdrive, and the settings are all in the right place so what gives? ...