Question: DVD Sizes, What is DVD-5, DVD-9 and Double Layer DVDs?
Double Layer (sometimes called Dual Layer) and Double-Sided DVDs each hold more than the standard 4.7GB of a single-sided single layer DVD. Many new DVD Copy softwares for Mac users burn Double-Sided and Double (or Dual) Layer DVDs. Learn more about the different DVD sizes below.
Answer:
DVD-5 holds 4.7GB and is supported by the DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW formats. It is also known as Single-Sided Single Layer.
DVD-9 holds 8.5GB and is supported by the DVD+R and DVD-R formats. It is also known as Single-Sided Double Layer (sometimes called Dual Layer). The official names are DVD-R DL and DVD+R DL
How to Accomplish DVD9 to DVD5 Compression for Mac users
Maybe you have a nice dual layer DVD movie, and you want to backup it for sharing or conserving. However, you just have some DVD5 discs in hand now. Then how can you accomplish your goal according to what you have? Just check the following guide that helps you finish copying DVD9 (Dual Layer) movies to DVD5 (Single Layer) on Mac.
Now what you need is just a cool tool Mac DVD9 to DVD5 Copy , which is easy operation but has more functions than iDVD.
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Sometimes you would like to backup some of your DVD Movies. When you start back up, you will find that some of the DVDs are copyright protected DVDs. Then how can you copy the copyright protected DVDs?
DVD Copy for Mac would be your perfect choice to solve the problem. It will assist Mac users copy DVD movies to computer or to another blank DVD disc and support to copy all DVDs including copy copyright protected DVDs.
Check how to use the DVD Copy in the following step-by-step tutorial.
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I. What is ISO Image?
An ISO image is an archive file (also known as a disk image) of an optical disc in a format defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). This format is supported by many software vendors. ISO image files typically have a file extension of .iso. The name ISO is taken from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media, but an ISO image can also contain UDF file system because UDF is backward-compatible with ISO 9660.II. How to Copy DVD Movies to ISO Image on Mac?
Consider you have a DVD containing over 5,000 files. Since a folder cannot be uploaded or downloaded, you would have to upload or download each of those 5,000 files individually, which is tedious at best. You could place them to a standard ZIP file to solve the problem, but ISOs have an advantage over ZIP files. ISOs can include additional information about the original DVD. In order to better organize your DVD movies, you can Copy DVD to ISO on Mac. Use DVD Copy Pro for Mac can easily finish this mission.Step. 1 Open DVD Copy Pro and Insert DVD
Click the DVD Copy Pro icon and insert the DVD as required. After loading DVD, the interface will around to the main interface. You can click the Duration to let the titles place in sequences.Step. 2 Choose the Copy Options and Output Options
You can choose the copy options in your own needs. Tick ISO in the Output Options to save ISO file on your Mac.
Step. 3 Start Copying DVD
After you finish the setting, click "Start" button and one window will pop up to ask you to choose the place saving the ISO file. You also need to type in the name for the file. Then click "Save" to start copying.
III. How to Play ISO Image on Mac for free
After copying, there are Four ways to play ISO Image on Mac:1.You can click the icon of ISO to play the ISO Image.
2. you can open the VLC media player and drag the ISO file to the VLC menu. Double click to start playing.
4.Just recur to Front Row to play your ISO Image:
Put ISO file into a folder with a movies name, and then put this folder into the Movies Folder. Now you can play ISO Image with Front Row of your Mac.
Now you can enjoy your ISO Image on Mac!
An ISO file, often called an ISO image, is a disk image of an ISO 9660 file system, which is also in fact an "image" of an entire CD or DVD. The entire contents of a disc can be perfectly represented in a single ISO file.
You can think of an ISO file like a box that holds all the parts to something that needs built - like a child's toy you might buy that requires assembly. An ISO file is the same way. The file itself is no good unless it can be opened, assembled, and used. The most common way to make use of an ISO file is to burn the ISO file to a CD or DVD. It's a different process than burning an MP3 file or a document to a disc because your CD/DVD burning software must "assemble" the contents of the ISO file onto the disc.
And if there are some ISO image about some Movies, how to open them or share them on TV?
How to Burn ISO to DVD on Mac OS X for Watching on TV?
ISO to DVD Burner for Mac is a Mac software which can help Mac users to burn not only various formats videos to DVD, but also burn ISO file to DVD. Just follow this guide to burn ISO to DVD on Mac OS X (including Snow Leopard).
Step 1. Launch Mac ISO to DVD Burner
After launch this ISO to DVD Burner for Mac, click ".ISO" to get in the main interface, there are also three other input ways: video files, .dvdmedia files and VIDEO_TS.
Step 2. Add the ISO file.
You can click "add" or drag the ISO file into Mac DVD Burner.
Step 3. Burn ISO file to DVD on Mac OS X
Then you can burn your favorite ISO files to DVD on Mac, which also supports Snow Leopard.
After that, Just share your ISO files on TV or DVD player with your friend.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 American science fiction action film which was released on June 19, 2009 in the United Kingdom and June 24, 2009 in North America. It is the sequel to 2007's Transformers and the second film in the live action Transformers series. Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg return respectively as director and executive producer, while Shia LaBeouf reprises the role of Sam Witwicky, the human caught in the war between Autobots and Decepticons. The film introduces many more robots and the scope has been expanded to numerous countries, most notably France and Egypt.
Resource: screencrave
By Mali Elfman
Michael Bay new "summer-fun" (as he likes to call it) blockbuster Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Tyrese Gibson, and Josh Duhamel, is not the roller coaster ride it should be. It starts off with a bang, but ends in a muddle. Although it has many surprises that I did not see coming, because of the excessive use of the same type of explosion over and over again, and the ridiculously long run time, this film is not summer-fun, it's summer-blah.It's time for the good, the bad and the plot…
Plot:
Like there's a plot to this film. Bad robots want to destroy the earth and good robots try to save them and people get in the way. POW! BANG! (Insert shot of Megan Fox leaning over a motorcycle at, get this, her dads motorcycle shop…ewww) POW! WOSH! The end.
Overall:The film lives up to every expectation that I had for a Michael Bay film, which was one mind-numbing explosions after another. Sadly, it wasn't the fun-ride that it needed to be. The film was too long for its own good and by the time we got around to the final fight scene, you're too bored to care about any of the characters.
Anyway it is a cool film for Transformers fans, and the DVDs will out soon after, why not backup this classical film to be preserved.
Well, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is very long as the review, and its DVD maybe need a DVD9 , How can we solve it if we want to backup it but no DVD9 ,only DVD5? Don't worry ,these questions all can be resolved in the following guide :Copy Transformers 2 DVD Movies on Mac
Question: DVD Sizes, What is DVD-5, DVD-9 and Double Layer DVDs?
Double Layer (sometimes called Dual Layer) and Double-Sided DVDs each hold more than the standard 4.7GB of a single-sided single layer DVD. Many new DVD Copy softwares for Mac users burn Double-Sided and Double (or Dual) Layer DVDs. Learn more about the different DVD sizes below.
Answer:
DVD-5 holds 4.7GB and is supported by the DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW formats. It is also known as Single-Sided Single Layer.
DVD-9 holds 8.5GB and is supported by the DVD+R and DVD-R formats. It is also known as Single-Sided Double Layer (sometimes called Dual Layer). The official names are DVD-R DL and DVD+R DL
How to Accomplish DVD9 to DVD5 Compression for Mac users
Maybe you have a nice dual layer DVD movie, and you want to backup it for sharing or conserving. However, you just have some DVD5 discs in hand now. Then how can you accomplish your goal according to what you have? Just check the following guide that helps you finish copying DVD9 (Dual Layer) movies to DVD5 (Single Layer) on Mac.
Now what you need is just a cool tool Mac DVD9 to DVD5 Copy , which is easy operation but has more functions than iDVD.
Step 1. Launch the Mac DVD9 to DVD5 Copy, and insert the copied DVD movies
Step 2. Select the option”D9 to D5 compression”
You can activate the function to compress the dvd9 movie to dvd5 disc.
Step 3. Select the Output Options
There are Four types of modes to output your movies:
DVD Disk, DVD Folder, ISO, DVD Media
That is to say you can Copy DVD Movies to DVD (D9 to D5, D5 to D5, D9 to D9, D5 to D9), Copy DVD to DVD Folder, Copy DVD to ISO, Copy DVD to Apple DVD Media Player on Mac.
After you select the output options, just click “Start” button.
Wait with several cups of coffee, and then you can enjoy your dvd5 movies as you like.
Want to Copy and Backup all your favorite DVD Movies to Hard Drive? This Article will show you how to copy protected DVD movies to computer. Before we start, we need a Mac DVD copy software ,which can copy DVD movies to Hard Drives or to a new blank DVD disc, this software also supports to copy all DVDs including copyright protected DVDs.
Mac DVD Copy provides the best way to copy DVD on Mac OS X. With this powerful DVD Copy for Mac software you can easily backup DVD and burn DVD on Mac OS X with high DVD Copy quality. It allows you to copy DVD movie in 1:1 ratio like copy D5 to D5 and copy D9 to D9 easily. You can also copy protected DVD movies as it can remove the protections like CSS, RC and RCE.
And then is the guide :How to copy DVD Movies to Hard Drives to DVD on Mac ?
Step1: Select DVD Source
After you install and lunch DVD Copy for Mac, put the DVD disc into your DVD drive. Click the “Select Source” drop-down list to browse your computer and located your source DVD movie (either in a folder or from your DVD-ROM).
Step2: Select DVD Copy Method
DVD Copy for Mac allows you to backup DVD to a folder on your hard drive or directly copy DVD to a new DVD disc. In the “Select DVD Copy Method” field, select the “Output DVD Folder” option, and specify a directory to save the copied DVD movie.
Step3: Start Copying DVD
After all things done, click the Start button to start copying your DVD movie or burning it to a new DVD disc. That's all.
As a Mac user, how to Copy DVD to a New disc? How to burn DVD files to a DVD？or How to burn iso file to DVD? If you are a Mac user, you’ll find you are very lucky, because, every Mac user comes with a Mac DVD Copy, so technically speaking, there shouldn’t be any problem. And by using the compatible DVD copy software, your work can be done so easily. Now, let us have a look the classic powerful software Disk utility, it’s powerful because it contains the function of conversion, repairing, erasing, and formatting, burning, almost everything to do with a disc. And here we’ll show you how to copy DVDs with Disk Utility.
First, open Disk utility in your dock bar. You can accomplish a bunch of maintenance tasks with Disk Utility when your computer is started from the Mac OS X 10.4 Install DVD. From the Utilities menu, choose Disk Utility to open it. open the program and click the "Burn" button 
.
Second, load the video to Utility.Choose the file you’d like to burn, the file format can be ISO disk image, or the DVD format Files. Both can be export from iDVD or download from Internet.
Third, insert the blank DVD+/-R,RW.
Then wait for the software to process.
After maybe few hours (depends on how large is your DVD size), your DVD is ready, and this one should be able to be play in an ordinary DVD player.
However, there is only one disadvantage about the Utility disk; which makes the application somehow disappointed. It can’t copy a physical DVD to a new disc. As we know, most of our DVDs are stored in the discs, and our most demand for copy or Backup DVD Movies is copy the content from one DVD disc to another blank disc. So for this demand, we'd use some other application like DVD copy for Mac to help us finish the work. Here is a detail guide of “How to Copy DVD Movies to a new Disc on Mac” if you are interested.
With Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 now in hand, you may want to consider making a personal backup copy. This is an excellent way to ensure you are protected should your original install DVD become damaged or lost. This simple tutorial will show you how to make a reliable DVD copy from Tiger's Mac OS X InstallDVD.
NOTE: This tutorial is for personal use only. Only the legal owner of Mac OS X Tiger should make a backup.
Now that the legal mumbo-jumbo is out of the way, lets begin. Duplicating CD/DVD’s is usually very easy, especially if you are lucky enough to have two drive bays and Toast Titanium. However, Mac OS X Tiger poses a slight difficulty since it is a bootable volume. The following steps will help you create a perfect working backup copy of Tiger.
Making a DVD Image
Step 1. Insert the retail Mac OS X Install DVD into your drive.
Step 2. Launch Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities).
Step 3. In Disk Utility, you will notice a white pane on the left hand side. In the pane, select the Mac OS X Install DVD by clicking on it once.
Step 4. Click New Image on the Disk Utility toolbar.
Step 5. A dialog box will appear. Give the new image a name. I used 'Mac OS X Install DVD'. Select the destination where you wish to save it. Leave Image Format at Compressed (default) and Encryption at None (default).
Step 6. Click Save to begin creating the image.
Step 7. Once your image has been created DO NOT mount it. Leave the image alone and proceed to the next section.
Burning the Image
Step 1. Launch Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities).
Step 2. Click Burn on the Disk Utility toolbar (upper left).
Step 3. Navigate to where you saved the DVD image created in the previous section. Click on the image file, then click the Burn button. Do not drag and drop the image file into Disk Utility during this step.
Step4. Insert a DVD when prompted and proceed to Burn it. (use good quality media)
Using these exact steps I was successfully able to create a personal backup copy of Mac OS X Tiger. I hope this tutorial helps. Enjoy the newfound features in Tiger!
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This step-by-step guide is dedicating to demonstrate how to backup DVD movie (copyright protected included) to computer and copy DVD to a new DVD disc with no protections on Mac OS X (leopard included)
The tool you need is Mac DVD Copy.
You should free download this DVD Copy for Mac firstly.
Step 1: Select DVD Source
In the 'Select Source' field, click 
and select 'Select source DVD folder'. Then browse your computer hard disc and select your DVD movie (either in a folder or from your DVD ROM).
Step 2: Select DVD Copy Method
This cool DVD Copy for Mac allows you to copy DVD to a folder on your hard disc or directly burn DVD to a new DVD disc.
In the 'Select DVD Copy Method' field, click to select a method to output the selected DVD movie:
If you want to output your DVD movie to a folder on your hard disc, you can select the 'Output DVD Folder' option, and specify a directory to save the copied DVD movie.
If you want to directly burn your DVD movie to a new DVD disc , you can just select the DVD ROM.
Step 3: Program Settings
Set Buffer Directory: Specify a directory on your hard disc as the buffer directory to store the temporary files generated during the conversion. We recommend that you select a folder on a hard disc that has relatively big free space.
Select Language: Select an interface language for the program. The currently available languages are English and Simplified Chinese.
Step 4: Start Copying DVD
Click the Start button 
to start copying your DVD movie and/or burning it to a new DVD disc.
Note: If you are copying a DVD disc from your DVD ROM to a new DVD disc,DVD Copy for Mac will ask you to insert a blank DVD disc when the program gets ready to burn. Then you can just take the original DVD disc out and insert a blank DVD disc.
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