

Your video is also currently encoded at 720x472, while a standard DVD player is going to need 720x480 (for an NTSC-compatible DVD) or 720x576 (for PAL-compatible). H.264, which is what your videos are currently encoded with, is a much more effective compression standard than MPEG-2, which is the best encoding accepted by standard DVD players. The "Project Info" window shows 6.4g of movie data, even though the m4v files are, again, under 2GB. Posted by infinitewindow at 12:31 PM on March 4, 2016 I've done similar work for other MeFites at a price point they've been happy with. If you have a budget for this project, please consider MeMailing me. DVD Decrypter can rip most discs easily and remove CSS, DVDStyler is a free way to make a simple disc using pre-existing assets, and ImgBurn is what professional authoring houses use to burn playable DVD-Rs. If you have access to a Windows PC at all, this is all much easier on the Windows side. You may run into problems burning a dual-layer disc-I don't have any dual-layer data to test Burn with at the moment. Burn is a fairly solid way to burn it back to a disc as a playable data disc (UDF 1.02, ISO9960 format). RipIt is an app that will rip DVD files and remove the CSS in one step.

I've found that on a Mac, the best way to do this is to rip the DVD files to your hard drive, remove any CSS copy protection, and burn the VIDEO_TS folder structure back to a DVD-R using Burn. You can download it direct from Roxio’s support web page.If you originally ripped these files from a DVD with Handbrake, the best thing to do for a playable DVD-R as bluecore says above is to use the DVD files directly. There is only one version which works fine, and that’s Toast 11.0.4.

Some forums advise to download Toast 11.1 beta, but after trying that advice, I found out the bug is still not squashed in this new and as yet unreleased version. The one we found is quite simple: revert back to Toast 11.0.4. That’s frustrating enough to look for a solution. Toast 11.0.6, Toast’s latest version, has a nasty bug: it just hangs with 99% of the burning process finished. Apple doesn’t build Macs with Blu-Ray writers and there is no support for these media either. We Mac users can’t live without Toast if we want to burn Blu-Ray media. And although a DVD or Blu-Ray used as backup media will work just fine, it is a different story when using Toast to burn a movie or an audio CD or DVD. It’s right before the Lead-out on DVDs and Blu-Rays should start to be written. Toast Titanium 11.0.6 has a frustrating bug: at 99% of the burning process, the application hangs indefinitely.
