How to play DVD backups on a Mac

Can anyone tell me how to do this. I struck out with Divx and VLC.

 

As my wife pointed out (she's the big Mac user in the family) when I first faced this situation last week, it is really simple. If I remember the steps I used correctly (don't have my mb here in the office):

1. copy the dvd backup's Video/Audio_TS folders into a new folder in the Movies folder (name the new one with dvd's name), located in the Finder panel under your user name.
2. Start Front Row (in Applications).
3. Navigate to the Movies folder in list that pops up.
4. Click on DVD folder name, and it should start right up.

fyi - VLC works too, but you have to first set the OSX to open the .ifo (I think that's the one) file in Video_TS with VLC -- right click on file, then select open with, then check the box for recommended/all programs so that VLC gets un-greyed out, then select vlc. That should do the trick. If .ifo isn't the right file extension - again, working from memory here - one of those in the top of the folder will be the right one (it's a small sized file, not the 1GB main ones).... just repeat these steps and you'll figure it out. I like FrontRow because it doesn't have the interlacing issues that VLC does with dvd backups, which I always have to remember to manually set to blend during vlc playback, and it plays automatically on fullscreen.

 

Thank you.

 

ClearSkies you are awesome; I'd never even thought to do something like this. And here I was fiddling around with Handbrake to import movies in to iTunes. This is simpler and faster.

 

LOL. I have to give my wife all the credit for giving me the FR trick, although I had to figure out how to make it work on my own .

She likes to point out that I'm a mid-level power Windows user, but a 12yo with a first computer when it comes to Macs. "Just think simple" she tells me -- hard after learning how to navigate the back rooms of xp over the years.

Glad my suggestions helped you all out.

 

Also VLC has a open video_ts folder open.
Select that, navigate to where it is, and then it'll open it for you.