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Would DVD X COPY work on a mac, if I load Virtual PC - Windows XP Pro on it. I have a G4 Mac with a DVD Writer (would it reconozine it). Has anyone tried it. I would love to utilize my mac with DVD X Copy
Derrow
Senior Member
8 Dec 2002 12:48 PM
I don't think so!
Because especially the parts for reading the original DVD, and burning the DVD-R use PC low level code.
I don't think that will be translated by Virtual PC.
eric1234
Inactive
8 Dec 2002 5:45 PM
Derrow:
It works on a Mac (DVD X Copy). The only problem is that when you get to the burn part- it works with Nero only. Gear was giving errors. I used Windows XP Professional on my G4 with Virtual PC and download the latest update which supports DVD Recordable Drives.
Great Job Derrow and 321 Team
jonzg
Newbie
19 Dec 2002 8:23 PM
Hi eric1234
I just bought a g4 powerbook, and want to buy dvdxcopy, did you have any problems using dvdxcopy with virtual pc??? Any help would be great, because I am a new convert to Mac computers and really want to use this software.
Thanks
eric1234
Inactive
21 Dec 2002 10:09 AM
You need Virtual PC with Windows XP Professional (that what I used). I downloaded it and was able to use it with mac superdrive. DVD X Copy sees it as GENERIC DVD-RW DRIVE, it works thought-- made 5 good backups. Use Nero only and it will work.
eyo
Newbie
6 Jan 2003 9:54 PM
Does anyone know how to get Windows XP Home edition to recognize my Super Drive a DVD Burner and not a CD-R.
royh
Junior Member
7 Jan 2003 4:06 PM
What about speed?
Isn't virtual PC extreemmmmelyyy s-l-o-w?
Virtual Pc is slow in some apsects. But in this buring process of DVD it is all slow business. I can't confirm the whole process is slower till I get XP to recognize the drive so I can burn a disk.
philg5140
Inactive
8 Jan 2003 1:44 PM
I downloaded the trial version of Nero to burn my DVD. Don't see anything in there about DVD though. Thanks for any help.
jonzg
Newbie
22 Jan 2003 7:04 PM
Hello, I am having the same problem as eyo. Win xp won't recognize my superdrive as a dvd burner, only as a cd player. How can I fix this????
Thanks
sirasgard
Inactive
6 Feb 2003 9:58 PM
eric1234!
How did you get the DVD to authenticate using VPC?
I'm using VPC 6.0.1 with XP, DVDXCOPY 1.4.1.
i dvdxcopy rips unencrypted (no CSS) dvds fine, but if it's css then it appears to work but will not play.
Any ideas? did you do anything different? And DVD playing software? How does DVDXCOPY detect encryption keys?
jonzg
Newbie
7 Feb 2003 7:07 AM
sirasgard, how did you get winxp to see your burner????? I have not been able to do that.
swpowe
Newbie
13 Feb 2003 7:53 PM
This is how I got it to work...as of last night! I hope someone is interested cause this is going to take a long time to type...
1st off-I have VPC 6 running windows 2000. A little tip I've discovered, VPC runs MUCH MUCH better in 9.2.2 then in 10. So I started up in 9.2.2 and installed Clone CD. Restarted and did all that fun stuff. Then I installed NEro express (came with my DVD Burner though I assume any burn program may work) I then made sure to select the alternate burn engine in DVDXCOPY and after that I just assigned my output folder to my desktop (on my mac hardrive which shows as a network drive) and hit copy. At the end of ripping the dvd (took 25 mins for one disk) it says that it can't find the dvd driver or something and it quites...but you're files are then on your mac hardrive...and I cannot discuss how to burn them...though hopefully most mac users will now :-)
Hope this makes a bit of sense (too early for me to make more sense) and I hope its not pulled from this forum cause I know that I sure would have loved to have found this out before :-) Good luck! Let me know how it works
jonzg
Newbie
14 Feb 2003 2:10 PM
swpowe, What is clone cd???, what do you use it for???
eyo
Newbie
16 Feb 2003 5:41 PM
swpowe
Ok so you got it to burn on an external DVD burner you bought, or did you burn it on the internal superdrinve of you Mac?
swpowe
Newbie
18 Feb 2003 12:18 PM
I installed the Pioneer 105...from what i understand its the same drive as the "apple superdrive". Os 9 and X both see it as a regular bootable dvd-r/rw
Clone CD is a program that is used to do an exact copy of any cd. It was only used for the purpose of creating a virtual dvd-r drive so that DXC would run. It won't even start unless it sees a way for you to burn what you create.
robguy
Junior Member
21 Feb 2003 12:09 AM
So Mac users know: Perhaps Bill Gates will make Virtual PC more compatible down the line since, according to a Feb. 19 news release from Mac Central, Microsoft has just purchased Virtual PC from Connectix. Here's the link:
