I am trying to burn a back-up copy of my dvd. Anyone know what programs i should use to do this on a Mac?

Also does anyone find any certain DVD's to be better quality than others? If so, can you recommend which kinds.

I bought a ripped copy off ebay and it seems that the quality sucks, takes forever to start up, sometimes tells me to insert appropriate disc, etc..

Thanks

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yea, that sounds like a bad copy of the disc. On the board, I have heard good things about verbatim DL Discs. I used Memorex and it's working fine.

that's what this one is, a memorex. looking at the bottom of the disc you can see where it "tracks" just doesn't look like a good dvd.

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maybe i suck at searching. i have read a bunch about alcohol 120 but it doesn't run on a mac. i've also heard that you can copy the disc image and change it to an .iso file.......

an ISO file IS a disk image.

You can try using NERO, I believe it is compatible with macs.